. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Onagrariccc— CEnothera. 199 4 CENCTHERA (including Gudetia). Herbs, rarely frutescent. Leaves membranous, sessile or petiolate, entire, lobed, or pinnatifid. Flowers usually large and showy, axillary, sessile, or pedunculate. Calyx-tube pro- duced above the seed-vessel, lobes often reflexed and deciduous. Petals 4, not clawed, entire. Stamens 8. Capsule
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Onagrariccc— CEnothera. 199 4 CENCTHERA (including Gudetia). Herbs, rarely frutescent. Leaves membranous, sessile or petiolate, entire, lobed, or pinnatifid. Flowers usually large and showy, axillary, sessile, or pedunculate. Calyx-tube pro- duced above the seed-vessel, lobes often reflexed and deciduous. Petals 4, not clawed, entire. Stamens 8. Capsule mem- branous or woody, costate, clavate, tetragonal, polygonal or winged. Seeds few or many, with or without an appendage. There are nearly 100 species, with the exception of one Tas- manian species, of American origin. The etymology of the name is not satisfactorily explained. Godetia was formerly separated on insufficient grounds; but it may be remarked that there are no yellow-flowered species belonging to this section, and in CEnothera they are either yellow or white, with one or two exceptions. The species are very similar in appearance, there- fore a small selection will suffice. 1. (E. ruhicunda, syn. Godetia rubicunda (fig. 106). An erect annual about 2 feet high with lilac-purple flowers having a deeper coloured blotch at the base of each petal. One of the most desirable species. Under cultivation it has produced a beautiful blush-white and other varieties. 2. (E. Whitneyi, syn. Godetia grandiflbra.—An annual of recent introduction. This is a mag-nificent species, of dwarf compact habit, bearing a profusion of rosy-red flowers blotched with crimson, and from 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Other handsome species of the Godetia section are:—ffi. roseo-dlba, rosy purple and white, (E. Lindleyana, purple, also with double flowers, and (E. reptans, a trailing species with rose-purple spotted flowers. 3. (E. biennis. Eveniuj^- Primrose.—This is the species first-. Fig.
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