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ambers linear, two-celled; pollen white. Style filiform, erect,
smooth, shorter than the petals. Stigma 4-parted, the segments
spreading, flat, and rounded, white.
Undoubtedly one of the most showy among the many interesting
additions made to our list of hardy annuals by
Mr. David Douglas, in the course of his travels in the northwest
regions of America; and, according to whom, the plant
IS met with abundantly in the countries near the Columbia.
It was ifrst discovered on the banks of the Kooskoosky and
Clarke Rivers, by Captains Lewis and Clarke, well-known
by their travels across the North-American Continent to the
Pacific Ocean; and after the last mentioned of those Gentlemen
the genus was named by Pursh, who has given a
tolerable figure and description of it in his Flora of North
America. Mr. Douglas has added two others to the genus,
but both of them inferior to the present in beauty. The circumstance
of the four alternate stamens being sterile, distinguishes
the genus from (Enothera, with which, in other
respects, it agrees. The stigma varies much in form in different
species of (Enothera. The plant is quite hardy, succeeds
well in almost any soil, and produces its seeds in
great abundance. The flowers are found of various shades
of purple in the cultivated plant; but the white variety, represented
in our plate, is more particularly deserving of
(^ r drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Allan
and Rogers, at Battersea.
1. Calyx. 2 . Stamens, with part o f the petals. S. Pistil.
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