peat soil, in a shady damp border. It is propagated by 
seeds, or by division of its creeping roots. À 
A creeping, herbaceous plant, with permanent leaves. 
Stems rounded, branched, covered with glandular hairs, pros- 
trate, sometimes as much as. a foot and a half long, more 
usually about a span high. Leaves glandular, villous, 
stalked, ovate, with large teeth, sometimes subcordate at 
the base, emitting a very powerful and grateful smell of 
musk. Flowers axillary, in pairs or solitary, with glan- 
dular, villous, filiform peduncles, twice as short as the 
leaves. Calyx tubular, glandular, with subulate, ovate 
segments, a little shorter than the tube of the corolla. 
Corolla yellow, whole-coloured, with roundish, nearly 
equal lobes, the lowest being striated at the faux, and the 
middle one slightly bearded. Capsule ovate, acuminate, 
shorter than the calyx, two-celled, 4-valved, dehiscing at 
the sides, with the septa firmly adhering to the axis. 
Seeds very minute, brown, roundish. eu | 
