7--.u\-*r ;>si H ORTUS J A M A1CE N'3.1 & Sfl 



jivking a fine shew ; it grows among mil 1. Sloane. Browne says it i j freqn ml in.'th 3 

 lowlands about P Tan tain Garden River. Barham calls it clo\ . and the following 



species loose strife ; and says the Indianshighly^Pesteem both-, and make poultices of 

 Ine leaves, whichniollify.and dissolv< I kin ol tumours. He also says -they are ex- 

 cellent wound-herbs, stop bleeding inward or outward, ;:'il cure sore-throats, sore 

 eyes, and venereal ulcers. The juice or essence lifting of blood and bloody 



luxes. A cataplasm or ointment is an excellent balsam ; the distilled water a cosmetic. 

 lirowne observes that all the species of this genus are mild sab-asrihirents and vulne- 

 ruries, which may be very properly administered in infusions upon all occasions where 

 Such medicines are required. 



2. OCTOVAI.VIS. . MGHT-STAMSNED. 



jlssur-gens glabra, folii-s lanceolatis altemis, ztttegerrifnis, JforihtS 

 solitaries alaribus. Browne, p. 208. 



Upright; flowers four-petaled, eight-stamened, peduncle.!; capsules many- 

 valved ; leaves lanceolate. 



Branches i I upright, four-cornered, pubescent; leaves acuminate, entire, 

 dotted "underneath at .the edge, nerved, pubescent; on short petioles; leaflets h* the 

 . .. inute. Flowers on short peduncles, large, yellow. Calyx sessile, four- 



lea acumh ite, pubescent; petals tour, three'times as large as the 



ts, distant, ovate, or ob-ovaie, blunt, spreading, deciduous; filaments 

 eighv, pi\ i close to the style up to the middle, the length of the pistil, awl-shaped ; 

 anthers ovate, incumbent, two-Valved. Germ roundish-quadrangular, attenuated at 

 the base, a little curved..; style thick; stigma spherical. Capsule pedicelled, long, 

 acuminate at the. base, retuse, four-celled, four or eight-valved ; seeds ve ry man) , 

 Tpundish.j receptacle quadrangular. Native of marshy places. Sw. 



3* PUBF.SCE^'S. HAIRY. 



Lysimachia lutea non papposa erecta major, foliis nirsutis, fritcf^L 

 caryophylloide. Sloane, v. 1, p. 201, t. 127, f. 3. 

 Upright, villose; flowers five-petaled, ten-stamened, sessile. 



Stem usually brown, strong, four or five feet high, having several hairy, red, an- 

 gular, branches, thick set on every side with long, narrow, hairv, nerved, leaves, 

 several of which cotne out together, some larger, some smaller ; the larger three inches 

 long, and scarcely one broad, light green, downy, and soft like velvet. The flowers 

 are axillary, large, yellow, very open, on peduncles half an inch long. Capsule large,, 

 oblong, with four.or five. corners, containing much small yellowish seed. Sloane. 



4. ERECTA. ERECT. 



Lysimachia lutea non papposa, erecta, foliis gtabris, fructu caryo* 



phylloide. Sloane, v. 1, p. 37. 



Upright, smooth; flowers four-petaled, eight- stamened, sessile. 



Root annual; stem from two to four feet high, herbaceous, very much branched, 



"four-cornered, smooth, reddish ; branches filiform, quadrangular, erect, sub-divided, 



-pubescent. Leaves petioled, linear-lanceolate, entire, acuminate, nerved, smooth"; 



Jietioles very short, red. Flowers abundant, yellow, small ; calyx four-leaved, leaf- 

 ets ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, striated underneath, smooth ; petals 



N 3 fourj 



