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‘LytrHrum VircatuM. Fine-BRANCHED 
WILLOw-HERB, 
Te REE ERR eae eae ae ae eae ae 
Clafs aud Order. 
Donecanpaia Monoeynia, 
Generic Chara@er. 
_ Cal. 6—12-fidus. Petala 6, cum ftaminibus 6-12, Calyci 
inferta. Cap/. 2-locularis: Recept. Sem. {epto adnatum. Se- 
mina numerofa. | 
Specific Charader and Synonyms. 
LYTHRUM virgatum ; foliis oppofitis lanceolatis, panicula 
virgata, floribus dodecandris ternis. Sy/t. Veg. 
446. Sp. Pl. 642. Willd. Sp. 2. p. 865. 
Reich. 2. p. 426. Hort. Kew.2. p. 128. Mart. 
Mill. Did?. n. 2. Gmel. Sib. 4. p.175- Hoff. 
Germ. 162. Gerin, Frud. 1. 296. t. 62. f. 5. 
LYTHRUM anfriacum ; foliis oppofitis lineari-lanceolatis: 
fubfeffilibus nitidis. Facqg. Aufir.1. p. 8. t. 7. 
Vind. 243. Krock. Silef. n. 717. : 
_ SALICARIA glabra ramofiffima, longiffimis et anguftiffimis 
foliis. Amm. Ruth. 89. 
: LYSIMACHIA rubra non filiquofa. Baub. Pin. 246. 
LYSIMACHIA rubra 2, feuminor. Cluf. Pan. 477. Hif. 
p. 51. Raitt Hift. 1036. 
: LYSIMACHIA purpurea Minor. Ger. emac. 478. f. 13- 
There is a confiderable affinity betwixt this fpecies and the 
 *THRuM Salicaria, or Purple Willow-Herb, a common 
ritifh plant, growing by the fides of rivers, ditches, and 
te Ponds, and feldom feen in our gardens, though well worthy 
_ aplace there; but the virgatum is {maller, more divided, 
fomewhat more elegant in its growth, though lefs pein 
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