472 OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. CEnothera. 
shedding their pollen, adhere firmly to their summits, so as hardly to be 
separated without violence, but before and after that time they do not 
touch it. ( Flowers small. Whole plant sometimes very diminutive. E.; 
(Round-stalked Marsh Willow-herb. Welsh: Helyglys culddail y 
fawnog. E.) Marshes, bogs, and sides of lakes. P. July. 
E. alpi'num. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, smooth, egg-spear¬ 
shaped, almost entire: capsules sessile; stem with about three 
flowers, decumbent at the base. 
Dicks. H. S. — {Hook. FI. Lond. 170— E. Bot. 2001. E.)— FI. Dan. 322— 
Light/. 10. 1. at p. 242. 
Stem trailing, hardly a span high. Linn. Afterwards upright, bearing one 
or two flowers at the top. Leaves quite smooth. Pods quite smooth, 
four or five times longer than the leaves. Lightf. Leaves sometimes 
slightly toothed. Woodw. (Only the floral-leaves alternate. Flowers 
generally two, rarely one or three, on simple stalks from the bosoms of 
the upper leaves. Petals rose-coloured, cloven. E. Bot. E.) 
Alpine Willow-herb. (By the sides of alpine rills, not unfrequent, 
particularly in Scotland. E.) Ben Buy, Ben Lomond, and near Little 
Loch Broom, Ross-shire. Mountain in Breadalbane and Corry Yaal, in 
Glenco. (On Ben Lawers. Mr. Winch. E.) P. July—Aug 
(E. alsinifo'lium. Leaves on leaf-stalks, egg-shaped, sharp-pointed, 
toothed: stigma undivided: root creeping, matted: stem decum¬ 
bent, obtusely quadrangular. 
E. Bot. 2000. 
Root creeping widely, forming broad tufts ; leafy throughout the winter. 
Stems numerous, decumbent, flowering part ascending, roundish, but 
marked with four angles. Petals veined, cloven; germen downy, with 
minute recurved hairs ; fruit very long. E. Bot. (glabrous, according to 
Hooker; who also observes that the habit is altogether different from that 
of E. montanum, to which it approaches in character, wanting its rigidity, 
and much smaller, seldom more than six to eight inches high. It is per¬ 
fectly distinct from E. alpinum. Mr. Winch states, “ E. alsinifolium, 
alpinum , and alpestre , of the Scotch and Swiss Botanists, I have had 
under cultivation many years. The former may be confounded with 
small alpine plants of E. montanum , but is very distinct from the small 
procumbent E. alpinum .” E.) 
Chickweed-leaved Willow-herb. E. alsinifolium. Villars. Winch. 
The latter author has clearly ascertained this to be the plant of Ray, 
“ Lysimachia.” E. alpinum of Curtis; also the “ Siliquosa,” &c., hitherto 
mistaken for E. alpinum , which has only been found in Scotland. On the 
banks of a rocky rivulet on the south side of Cheviot ; Cronkley Fell, 
Yorkshire; also Buckbarrow. (Curtis’s station for his E. alpinum.) Mr. 
Winch. It is likewise said to have been found in the Highlands. 
P. June—July. E.) 
(CENOTHERA.* Bloss. four petals: Cal. with four di¬ 
visions : Caps, cylindrical, beneath : Seeds naked : Anth. 
linear. E.) 
* (From owine, and 0>j/sa, imbued or penetrated with; the root having a vinous 
scent when dried. E.) 
