344 DODECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Lythriim. 



L. Salicaria. Linn. Sp. PL 640. M'illd. v. 2. 865. Fl. Br. 510. 

 Engl.Bot. V. 15. t. 1061. Curt. Lond. fasc. 3. t.28. Hook. 

 Scot. 147. Fl. Dan. <. 671. 



Salicaria n. 854. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 378. 



S. vulgaris purpurea, foliis oblongis. Raii Syn. 367. 



Lysimachia spicata purpurea. Bauh. Pin. 246. Ger. Em. 276. f. 



L. altera. Mattk. Valgr. v. 2. 299./. Camer. Epit. 687./. Da- 

 lech. Hist. 1059./. 



L. purpurea communis major. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 51./. 



In ditches and watery places, especially about the margins of 

 ponds and rivers, abundantly. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root woody, branching at the crown. Stems from 2 to 4 feet high, 

 erect, acutely quadrangular, either smooth or downy, leafy, ge- 

 nerally simple. Leaves nearly sessile, lanceolate, acute, entire, 

 various in length, the upper ones diminished to bracteas ; all 

 mostly opposite ; but there are occasionally 3, or even 4, in 

 each whorl j in which cases the number of angles in the stem is 

 likewise increased. Fl. in numerous axillary whorls, 6 in each, 

 of a variable crimson or purple, composing long leafy spikes, of 

 great splendour and elegance, but without smell. Six of the 

 calyx-teeth are long and reddish, the others minute. Anthers 

 conspicuous, red, with green or yellow pollen. Capsule ellip- 

 tical, small. The herbage, generally almost smooth and of a 

 dark green, becomes in dry situations hoary and downy, or in 

 some degree hairy, as well as more dwarf in stature. 



2. L. hyssop'^folium. Hyssop-leaved Purple-Loose- 

 strife. Grass-poly. 



Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate. Flowers axillary, so- 

 litary. Stamens six. 



L. hyssopifolium. Sihth. 1 49. Fl. Br. 5 1 0. Engl. Bot. v. 5. t. 292. 

 Purton V. 1.227. t.2. 



L. Hyssopifolia. Liiin. Sp. PI. 642. Willd. v. 2. 869. Dicks. H. 

 Sice. fasc. 16. 2. Jacq. Austr. t. 133. 



Salicaria n. 855. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 378. 



S, Hyssopi folio latiore et angustiore. Raii Syn, 367. Rupp. Jen. 

 ed. Hall. 147. t.6.f.2. 



Hyssopifolia. Bauh. Pin. 218. 



H, sive Gratiola minor. Bauh. Prodr. 108./ 



H. aquatica. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 780, 2./ 



Gratiola angustifolia. Ger. Em. 581./ 



In partially dried pits or ditches ; or places where water has stag- 

 nated during winter ; but not common. 



On Hounslow heath. Hudson. In several parts of Cambridge- 

 shire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, and Oxfordshire. Sibth., 

 Relh., Abbot, &c. In Suffolk. Dickson. Worcestershire. Purton. 



