Word: oenothera
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...Some non-Japanese flower listeners say that the evening primrose (Oenothera) makes a "snapping" sound when it opens. Seed pods, of course, can be much noisier; on warm September days phlox pods explode with a soft pop. The squirting cucumber (Ecballium) of Southern Europe sounds like a cork leaving a champagne bottle, and the tropical sandbox tree (Hura, crepitans) has an orange-sized capsule which "explodes with a loud report...
...accomplish? Dr. William Henry Eyster's project, at the University of Maine, to study "the physiology of chloroplastid pigments," was equally inscrutable. And why should Dr. Ralph Erskine Cleland of Goucher College be given money to pry into "the chromosome constitution and behavior of the evening primrose [Oenothera]"! What services would be rendered mankind by Dr. Frederick Charles Dietz of the University of Illinois, studying "English government finance from 1558 to 1640"; or Dr. Marion Elizabeth Blake, Converse College, scrutinizing "the Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy"; or Dr. Philip Franklin of Massachusetts Institute of Technology going to Germany...
BUSSEY SEMINAR. "Studies on Oenothera." Dr. Bradley M. Davis. Bussey Institution...
BOTANICAL CLUB. "Some Studies on Oenothera." Dr. Bradley M. Davis. Nash Lecture Room, University Museum...
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