214 OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Epilobium. 



3. E. jmrviflorum. Small-flowered Hoary Willow- 



herb. 



Leaves sessile, lanceolate, downy. Stem nearly simple, 

 woolly. Root fibrous. 



E. parviflorum. Sc/irefc. Lips. 146. WUh.367. VI. Br. 4\0. Engl. 

 Bot. v.\2.t. 795. Hook. Scot. 117. 



E. pubescens. Wilkl. Sp. PL «. 2. 315. 



E. hirsutum. Huds. IGl. Linn. Sp. PL 494, /3. 



E. villosum. Curt. Land. fasc. 2. t. 22. Relh. 152. Sihth. 121. 

 Abbot 84. Ehrh. Herb. 104. 



E. foliis longis dentatis villosis, flore parvo. Hall. Enura.AlQ. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 347. 



E.n. 995,(3. Hall. Hist. v. \. 425. 



Lysimachia siliquosa hirsuta, parvo flore. Bauh. Pin. 245. Prodr. 

 1 1 6. Rati Sijn. 311. Moris, v. 2. 270. sect. 3. t.ll.f. 4. 



L. siliquosa hirsuta, flore minore. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 906./. 



Frequent in watery places and about the banks of rivers. 



Perennial. July. 



Root fibrous. Stem about 2 feet high, either quite simple, or 

 slightly branched at the top only, round, leafy, clothed more or 

 less with a soft dense woolliness, Leaves most of them opposite, 

 sessile, minutely toothed ,• soft and downy on both sides. FL 

 but a quarter the size of the last, light purple, in long leafy 

 clusters. Stigma deeply 4-cleft, as in the two foregoing species 

 and the following. 



4. E. montanum. Broad Smooth-leaved Willow- 



herb. 



Leaves stalked, ovate, toothed. Stem round. Stigma in 

 four deep segments. 



E. Kiontanum. Linn. Sp. PL 494. Willd. v. 2. 31 6. FL Br. 41]. 



EngL Bot. V. 17. t. 1177. Curt. Lond. fasc.3. t.24. Hook. 



Scot 1 1 7. FL Dan. L 922. Ehrh. Herb. 1 1 4. 

 E. n. 996. Hall. Hist. V. 1.426. 

 Lysimachia siliquosa glabra major. Bank. Pin. 245. Moris, v. 2. 



270. sect. 3. t. 11./. 5. 

 L. carapestris. Ger. Em. 478. f. Raii Syn. 311. 

 In dry, shady, hilly, or stony, places ; on old walls, or cottage 



roofs, frequent. 

 Perennial. July. 

 Root slightly creeping, with red shoots. Stem 1^ or 2 feet high, 



erect, round, leafy, smooth or minutelydowny,scarcelybranched, 



usually red. Lower leaves ojiposite, on short stalks, ovate, broad, 



toothed, smooth and pliant, with hoary veins ; upper alternate 



