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OENOTHERA macrocarpa.
Large-capsuled OEnothera.
Natural Order. OnagraeIjE. Jussieu.
OENOTHERA. Calyx 4-fidus, tubulosas. Corolla
5-petala ; petalis integris. Stamina 8 ; filamentia omnia
fertilia. Stigm. 4-fidura. Caps. 4-locularis, 4-valvis, infera.
Sem. nuda, receptáculo centrali, 4-gono aíBxa.
CE. macrocarpa, caule diffuso ramoso, foliis petiolatis ellip-
tico-lanceolatis acutis mucronatis glanduloso-denticulatis
integerrimisve margine nervisque sericeo-albidis, petalis
obcordatis venosis, capsulis quadrialatis subsessilibus.
CEnothera macrocarpa. Pursh Plor. Amer. Sept. supp.
p . 734. excl. syn. Bot. mag.
Root perennial. Stem of a woody texture at the
base, branching. Branches spreading, covered with
a short silky pubescence, furrowed, jthickly clothed
with leaves. Leaves petioled, elliptically lanceolate,
acute, miicronate, entire, or sometimes distantly
toothed with small glandular teeth ; margins thicker,
of a horny substance, and with the nerves clothed
with a whitish silky down. Petioles downy, about
three times shorter than the blade of the leaf, convex
on the upper part, and rounded on the lower.
Capsule below the calyx, thickly clothed with white
silky hairs, 4-winged ; wings growing to a great
size before the capsules ripen. Calyx tubular, tube
in our specimen four inches long, of a greenish
white ; limb spathaceous, irregularly spotted with
pale purple, sericeous, split on one side for the expansion
of the petals, and divided into 4 segments
at the base, which are joined above the middle and
end in 4 subulate points. Petals 4, the largest in