Class V. Order I. 49 



LYSIMAOHIA HYBRIDA. Mich. Hybrid loosestrife, 



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, 

 reflexed, narrow, tapering at both ends, on long footstalks. 

 Flowers on the ends of the branches, drooping ; petals crenate. 

 Gro ws among the grass in wet meadows, flowering in July. 



LYSIMACHIA QUADRIPOLE. 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 flowers on capillary footstalks in their axils. 

 Sometimes the number of flowers and leaves in a whorl varies 

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



LYSIMACHIA THYRSIFLORA. Mich. Tufted loosestrife. 



Racemes lateral, pedunculated. 



Stem simple, round. Leaves sessile, opposite, lanceolate, 

 acute. Flowers small, in short rounded racemes, supported on 

 peduncles from the axils of the leaves. Meadows. June, Ju- 

 ly. Perennial. 



LYSIMACHIA STRICTA. Jiit. Upright loosestrife. 



Racemes terminal ; petals lanceolate, spreading : 

 leaves lanceolate, sessile. Jlit. 



Sijn. LrsiMACHiA RACEMOSA. Lam. Mich. 



LrsiMACHiA BULBIFERA. Curtis. 



A very elegant species, its long, upright raceme appearing 

 like a hollow cylinder of flowers. Stem erect, smooth. Leaves 



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