336 LXXXIl. PRIMULACE^. Lysimachu 



serrulate, acuminate ; sep. linear, acuminate. This little plant is common in 

 the rocky woods of N. Eng., N. Y., and Brit. Am. Stem 3 — 6' high, with an 

 irregular whorl of 4 — 8 lanceolate, .smooth and shmmg jea;ts at the top. In 

 the midst of these are 1 — 4 white, star-like flowers, borne on simple, filiform 

 pedicels. The leaves are mostly acuminate at each end, 3' long and 1' wide. 

 Segments of the corolla longer than the acute calyx leaves. Seeds attached to 

 a central, spongy placenta. May, Jn. 



5. GLAUX. 



Gr. yXau/fOf , bluish or glaucous ; from the hue of the plant 



Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, colored ; corolla ; stamens 5 ; cap- 

 sule roundish, surrounded by the calyx, 5-valved, 5-seeded. — % Mari- 

 limCj branching^ glabrous. 



G. maritIma. Black Saltwort. 



A small, smooth, fleshy plant, found occasionally in the salt marshes on 

 our seacoast, Can. to N. J. Root perennial. Stem more or less procumbent at 

 base, 4 — 6' high, smooth, branching, and very leafy. Leaves f ' in length, 

 roundish-ovate, obtuse, entire, nearly or quite sessile, smooth, fleshy and darkly 

 glaucous. Flowers small, sessiie, axillary, solitary. Calyx white, tinged with 

 red. July. 



6. NAUMBURGIA. Moench. 

 Calyx and cor. deeply 5 — 6-parted ; pet. linear-lanceolate, spread' 

 ing, separated by minute, intervening teeth ; sta. 5 — 6, inserted into 

 the base of the corolla, exserted ; anth. cordate ; caps, globose, 5' 

 valved ; seeds few, on a globose placenta. — '^1- with opposite Ivs. JFls. 

 small., in demise., thy > said racemes. 



N. THYRsiFLORA. M'l'nch. (Lysimachia. Linn. anA 1st edit. L. capitata. 

 Ph.) — An erect, .srht^oih herb, about 2f high, in swamps, Mass., Vt., N. 

 Y.! W. to Ohio! N. to Arc. Am. Leaves many pairs, sessile, lanceolate, 

 acute, entire, pimctate, somewhat --canescent beneath, 2 — 3' by ^ — 1'. Racemes 

 somewhat capitate, on filiform, axillary peduncles. Flowers yellow. Stamens 

 much exserted, united into a tube at base. Jn. 



7. LYjSIMACHIA. 

 Calyx 5-parted, rotate or campanulate, tube very short ; sta. 5, in- 

 serted into the corolla at base ; fil. often somewhat connate, or with 

 intervening sterile ones; caps, globose, 5 — 10-valved, opening at the 

 apex ; seeds 00. — Herbs mostly tj., ^cith opposite or verticillate, entire Ivs. 



1. L. sTRicTA. Ait. (L. racgnosa. M.v. Viscum terrestre. Linn.) 

 Simple or branched, erect; Ivs. opposite or tcrnate, lanceolate or lance- 

 linear, glabrous, punctate, acute, Sessile; Jl$. verticillate, in a long, lax, termi- 

 nal raceme; ^e/!. lanceolate, spreading. — Tj. In low, wet grounds. Can., N. Eng. 

 to Va, and Ohio. Common. Plant smooth, 1 — 2f high, bearing at top a regu- 

 lar, cylindric or conical raceme, G — 8' long. Peduncles an inch in length, 

 quite spreading, each with a subulate bract at base. Stamens 2 long and 3 

 short, lUTiited at base. Flowers yellow, spotted with purple. Capsules 5-seed- 

 ed. Alter flowering it throws out bulblets from the axils of the leaves, which 

 will produce new jilants the following spring. July. 



2. L. ciLiATA. Fringe-dalk Loosestrife. Hcart-kaved Loosestrife. 

 Subsimple, eyect; Irs. opposite, rarely quaternate, ovate, subcordate or 



ovate-lanceolate, petioles cili-ate upper side ; fls. nodding, mostly opposite ; sta. 

 distinct, with 5 abortive filaments. — Tj. In gravely soils and near streams, U. S. 

 and Can. Root creeping. Stem somewhat 4-sided, 2 — 3f high, simple or with 

 a f( w opposite branches. Leaves large, pointed, somewhat cordate at base, on 

 petioles fringed with cilere, the upper ones apparently quaternate. Flowers 

 large, yellow, axillary. Stamens inserted into a ring, nearly equal, with 5 al. 

 ternate and intermediate, rudimentary filaments or teeth. July. 



