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Lysimachia verticillata. Verticiuate 

 Loose-strife. 



Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 

 Generic Character. 

 Cor. rotata. Caps, globosa, mucronata, 10-valvis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Lysimachia verticillata ; panicula composita verticillata,, pe- 

 dunculis multifloris simplicibusque, calycibus capsula 

 maculata longioribus. Fl. taur. caucas. 1. p. 141. et. 

 3. p. 135. Marsch. Cent. 1. t. 32. 



Lysimachia verticillata ; foliis verticillatis oblongo-lanceo- 

 latis petiolatis, pedunculis axillaribus uni-triflorisque, 

 petalis ovatis acutis glanduloso-ciliatis, caule pubes- 

 cente. Willd. Enum. p. 195. 



Descr. Stem octangular, rough, branched : branches 

 naked at the lower part, upwards opposite-leaved, each 

 petiole bearing four flowers, the peduncles being inserted 

 on the footstalk and not in the axils. The centre of the 

 stem bears four leaves in whorls at equal distances with 

 four flowers on each footstalk. Leaves elliptical, villous 

 on both sides, minutely ciliate at the margins. Flowers 

 yellow, very like those of the common Loose-strife ; but 

 the calyxes entirely without the red margin so constant in 

 that ; stamens not half the length of the corolla. 



Distinguished from Lysimachia punctata, by the want 

 both of the black spots in the leaves and the orange 

 coloured spots in the corolla ; from vulgaris, which it more 

 resembles in habit, by the calyx wanting (he red margins, 

 and by the flowers growing in much more regular and 



equidistant 



