with rigid teeth ; the lowermost opposite ; flowers axillary, at length pedicellate
; lobes of the calyx lanceolate, acute, rather shorter than the obcordate
petals; style filiform; stigma with 4 spreading lobes; capsules linear.
—Pursh ! f l . l .p . 259 ; DC. ! prodr. 3. p. 44 ; Cham, Sf Schlecht. ! in Lin-
ncea, 2. p. 553; Bongard ! veg. Sitcha, l. c. -p. 135.
N. W. Coast, Pallas ! Sitcha, Bongard ! Unalaschka, Chamisso ! Oregon,
Mr. Tolmie ! — If Stem 1-2 feet high. Leaves 2-3 inches long.
Flowers as large as in E. latifolium. Anthers oblong. Capsule a little
pubescent.
| 3. Flowers small (white) : limb of the calyx campanulate at the base: petals
slightly spreading, obcordate : stamens erect, included : style filiform,
much exserted, erect: stigma thick, loith 4 spreading oblong lobes: capsule
short, clavate-oblong : coma very long: leaves opposite.—C o r d y l o p h o -
r u m , Nutt. m s s .
5. E. suffruticosum (Nutt.! mss.): “ stems numerous, decumbent, much
branched; leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, entire, rather obtuse, somewhat
canescent; flowers axillary ; calyx deeply cleft; the segments rather shorter
than the (white) petals; capsules clavate, narrowed at each end, on very
short pedicels.
“ Gravelly banks of streams, east of Wallawallah.—A very remarkable
species, spreading out in tufts on the ground ; the young leaves hoary, nearly
an inch long, and about 3 lines wide. Flowers near the ends of the branches.
Style much exserted, erect [a little declined in the dried specimens].. Capsule
canescent, less than an inch in length, thickened in the middle.” Nuttall.
—The flowers of this curious species are scarcely larger than those of E . pa-
lustre ; the base of the calyx campanulate; the ovary ovoid-clavate, and
about the length of the style ; but the mature fruit resembles that of a Go-
detia, is attenuate towards the apex, “slightly incurved, rather obtuse at the
base, and borne on a short filiform pedicel.
§ 4. Flowers mostly small (reddish or white) : limb of the calyx campanulate
or infundibuliform: petals and stamens erect: style, erect,, included: stigma
clavate (the lobes connate or at length rarely expanding): ovules in a
single row: lower leaves commonly opposite, the upper often alternate.
— E p il o b iu m proper. (Lysimachion, Tausch.)
6. E . alpinum (Linn.): stem creeping at the base, usually with 2 pubescent
lines; leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-oblong, sessile, or slightly pe-
tioled, obscurely denticulate or nearly entire, glabrous; stigma undivided;
capsules mostly pedicelled.—Linn. ! spec. 1. p. 348; Willd. ! spec. 2.
p. 318.
a. small; leaves mostly sessile, nearly entire; flowers at first sessile.—E.
alpinum, FI. Dan. t. 332 ; Engl. bot. t. 2001 ; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 360 ;
DC.! prodr. 3. p. 41 ; Lehm. ! in Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 205.
/?. stem larger, nodding at the summit; leaves oblong, denticulate. Lehm.!
1. c. E. alpinum var. nutans, Hornern. in fl. Dan. t. 1387, ex Lehm.
E. Hornemanni, Reichenb. ic. pi. rar. t. 180 ; DC. 1. c., ex Lehm.
y. stem taller (6-12 inches) ; leaves slightly petioled, denticulate, somewhat
ovate, the uppermost acuminate ; flowers larger.—E. alpinum 0. ma-
jus, Wahl. fl. Suec. 1. p. 234. E. alpinum, Bigel. ! fl. Bost. ed. 2-p. 147.
E p il o b iu m . ONAGRACEfE. 489
E. origanifolium, Lam. diet. 2. p. 376 ; DC. 1. c .; Lehm. ! 1. c. E. alsini-
folium, F ill.; Engl. Bot. t. 2000.
Arctic America from Greenland ! to the N. W. Coast! and on the Rocky
Mountains to the sources of the Platte! 0. & y. Canada, Mrs. Percival'
White Mountains of New Hampshire, Mr. Oakes! Mountains of Essex
County, New York !— Zf Flowers small, pale rose-color. Fruit almost ah
ways pedicellate.—We have seen no specimens corresponding with the
larger European forms of E. origanifolium, but the American specimens
appear intermediate between this and E. alpinum.
7. E. affine (Bongard): stem erect, slightly branched; leaves opposite,
sessile, ovate-lanceolate, irregularly serrulate-toothed, slightly pubescent-
flowers small, sessile; petals obcordate, 2-cleft, scarcely longer than the
calyx ; stigma clavate, undivided. Bongard, veg. Sitcha, l. c. p. 135
0. ? fastigiatum (Nutt.! mss.): “ smaller, glabrous; stems several' from
the same root, simple ; leaves partly clasping, irregularly and minutely denSitcha,
Bongard. 0. Plains of the Oregbn, Nuttall /—The plant of Bongard
is said to be 14-2 feet high: that of Nuttall about half the size.
8. E . roseum (Schreb.): stems csespitose, erect; leaves on short somewhat
clasping petioles, oblong, acute at each end, closely denticulate-serrate, pu-
beruient along the margin and veins, the lower ones opposite; flowers sub-
sessfle, the fruit pedicelled; petals much longer than the calyx; stigma undivided.
Schreb■ fl. Lips. p. 147; Reichenb. ic. rar. 2. t. 190 • DC l c •
Bongard, veg.. Sitcha, l. C.p. 135.
Sitcha, Bongard— If Stem branching, many-flowered, with 2-4 decurrent
pubescent lines, a loot or more high. Petals 2-cleft.
9. E. tetragonum (Linn.): stem erect, branching, 4-sided, nearly glabrous •
leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, glandularly denticulate-serrulate; the middle
ones more or less decurrent along the angles of the stem, the lower slightly
petroled; petals emarginate; stigma clavate; capsules pedicelled, minutely
pubescent.—Engl. bot. t. 1948; Fl. Dan. t. 1029; DC. 1. c.; Lehm.' in
Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 206.
0> glandulosum: stem simple or nearly so, a little creeping at the base
the angles slightly pubescent.—E. glandulosum, Lehm.! 1. c.
Canada! to lat. 64°, and Oregon! and N. W . Coast! On the high mountains
of Carolina, Michaux— If Stem 1-2 feet high, nearly terete above.
1 lowers small, rose-color.—Hooker remarks that he cannot distinguish unbranched
specimens of E. tetragonum from E. glandulosum, Lehm., and
JNuttall has observed that the mature capsules of the latter are not sessile but
have slender pedicels. He thinks, however, that E. glandulosum is annual,
and inclines to think it distinct.
10. E. coloratum (Muhl.): stem nearly terete, erect, much branched, pu-
berulent; leaves mostly opposite, lanceolate, acute, on very short petioles
denticulate-serrulate, the veins often reddish; petals 2-cleft at the apex; stig-
■54?' elevate; capsules on short pedicels, slightly pubescent.—Muhl.' in
WiUd. enum. l . p . 411; Nutt.-gen. 1. p. 250; Tore.! fl. 1. p. 392; Lehm.!
c' ’ Darlmgt. fl. Cest. p. 239. E. tetragonum, Pursh, fl. 1. p,
<wOy ,* Jbu. L* c.
Swampy thickets and ditches, from fhe Saskatchawan! and Northern
States! to the mountains of Georgia, and west to Missouri and Oregon! J u ly --
Stem 1-3 feet high, at length greatly branched. Flowers small
purplish. Stamens unequal. Style almost exserted— The whitish dots’
both linear and roundish, on the cuticle of the leaves are very distinct in this