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(ENOTHERA TRILOBA.
NIGHT-FLOWERING (ENOTHERA.
Octandria Monogynia, Linn. Onagrse, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix tubulous, 4-cleft. Segments deflected, deciduous. Petals 4, inserted upon the
calix. Stigma 4-cleft. Capsule 4-celled, 4-valved, inferior. Seeds naked,
affixed to a central, 4-sided receptacle.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Stemless; leaves interruptedly pinnatifid, dentated, glabrous j petals trilobed towards
the top ; capsules^ 4-winged, large. Nutt.
Root fusiform, small, ochre-yellowish, garnished with fibres of a
lighter colour, annual and perennial, being affected in this circumstance
by its particular kind of exposure to soil and climate. Leaves
radical, large, the central ones erect, the outer spreading on the surface
of the ground like those of common Dandelion. They are lan-
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