216 OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Epilobium. 



7. 'Et. palustre. Round-stalked Marsh Willow-herb. 



Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, slightly toothed. Stem 

 round. Stigma undivided. 



E. palustre. Linn. Sp. PL 495. Willd. v. 2. 317. FL Br. 412. 

 Engl. Bot. V.5. t.346. Hook. Scot. 117. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc.2. 

 15. Ehrh. Herb.\05. Fl. Dan. t. 1574. 



E. n. 998. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 426. 



Lysimachia siliquosa glabra angustifolia. Bauh. Pin. 245. 



L. siliquosa glabra minor angustifolia. Raii Syn. 311. 



Chamsenerion alterum angustifolium. Ger. Em. 477. f. 



In boggy turfy ground, near ditches and rivulets. 



Perennial. July. 



Root somewhat creeping. Herb nearly or quite smooth, extremely 

 variable in luxuriance, and on turfy bogs sometimes very dimi- 

 nutive. Stem always erect, generally branched from 4 or 6 

 inches to 12 or 18 in height, round, leafy. Leaves for the most 

 part opposite, sessile, linear-lanceolate, bluntish, smooth, slightly 

 and occasionally toothed ; the upper ones alternate and most 

 entire. Clusters leafy. Pet. inversely heart-shaped, pale pur- 

 ple, with darker streaks. Stigma linear, obtuse, undivided. — The 

 wooden cut in Gerarde, indicated above, is applied to various 

 species by different authors. Haller doubted whether jE. palustre 

 were a good species, but the stigma is narrower, and differently 

 shaped from that of tetragonum, and the leaves, as Ray observes, 

 are darker coloured, nearly entire, and more contracted at their 

 base. 



8. E. alsinifolium. Chickweed -leaved Willow-herb. 



Leaves stalked, ovate, acute, toothed. Stigma undivided. 

 Root creeping. Stem decumbent, obtusely quadrangular. 



E. alsinifolium. Villars Dauph.v.Z.bW. Comp.60. Engl. Bot. 



V. 28. t. 2000. Hook. Scot. 1 1 7. 

 E. n. 361. Winch Guide v. 1. 36. v. 2. pre/. 4. 

 E. montanum $. Willd. Sp. PI. w. 2. 31 6 ? 

 Lysimachia siliquosa glabra minor latifolia. Raii Hist. v. 1. 862. 



iSp.311. 

 L. siliquosa nana prunellse foliis acutis. Bocc. Mus. 161. 1. 108. 

 On the margins of mountain rivulets. 

 In rivulets on the sides of the Cheviot hills, as mentioned by Ray. 



Mr. Winch. On many of the Highland mountains of Scotland. 



Mr. G. Don and Mr. J. Mackay. Found by Mr. Murray on 



Ben Nevis J and by Mr. Arnott on Hart-fell, near Moffatt. 



Hooker. 

 Perennial. July. 

 Root creeping extensively, forming broad matted tufts, which are 



