EPILOBIUM

the willow-herbs, a genus of plants, nat. ord. On a graces. The species are herbs or under-shrubs 203 EPILOGUE with pink or purple, rarely yellow, flowers, solitary in the axils of the leaves or in terminal leafy spikes. The seeds are tipped with a pencil of silky hairs, and are contained in a long four-celled capsule. There are more than fifty species scattered over the aretic and temperate regions of the world, ten of them being natives of Britain. EPILOGUE. Conclusion of a literary work or peroration of a speech. Specifically it was an independent commentary in verse after a drama, sometimes by another pen, appealing to the hearer’s or reader’s indulgence or deprecating criticism; it especially charaeterised 17th-18th century Hnglish drama. IMG:fig204_1.jpg: