Class V. Order I. 75 







ed in fours, yellow. Calyx acute ; segments of the corolla ovate, 

 toothed and mucronated, covered with minute glands at base. 

 Anthers sagittate, obtuse; filaments shorter than the anthers, in- 

 serted in a glandular ring at the base of the corolla, with five in- 

 termediate, subulate, filamentous bodies covered with glandular 

 pubescence. Germ globose, style straight, stigma simple. Cap- 

 sule five valved. Grows on Chelsea beach island. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



LYSIMACHIA HYBRIDA. Mich, Hybrid Loosestrife. 



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Leaves opposite, petioled, lanceolate, acute at 

 base ; flowers drooping. 



A more common species than the last, which it resembles. 

 Stem erect, with opposite branches. Leaves of the stem long, 

 retlexed, narrow, tapering at both ends. Petioles ciliate as in 

 the former species, the row of hairs extending round the stem. 

 The flowers in every respect resemble those of the preceding 

 species, and indeed I can observe no permanent difference except 

 in the form of the leaves, which are narrow and lanceolate. 

 Grows among the grass in wet meadows, Roxbury, flowering in 

 July. 



Svbgenus CASSANDRA. Capsule five valved, verrucose ; 

 stamens monadelphous, two long and three short. 



LYSIMACHIA QUADRIFOLIA. L. Four leaved Loosestrife. 



Leaves in fours, nearly sessile, peduncles in fours, 

 one flowered. L. 



A plant of singular regularity, having its long simple stem 

 surrounded by whorls of four oval-lanceolate leaves, with the 

 same number of yellow flowers on capillary footstalks in their 

 axils. Calyx segments acute, half as long as the corolla. Seg- 

 ments of the corolla entire, acute, spotted at base. Stamens un- 

 equal, two long and three short, united at base, and covered with 

 glandular hairs. Germ globose, dotted. Style straight. Cap- 

 sule spherical, five valved, punctate with black warts. Some- 

 times the number of flowers and leaves in a whorl varies to 

 three or five" Every where in low ground. June. 



