278 rENTANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Lysimachia. 



101. LYSIMACHIA. Loosestrife. 



Linn. Gen. 83. Juss. 95. Fl. Br. 227. Tourh. t. 59. Lam. t. 101. 

 Gccrtn. t. 50. 



Nat. Ord. see //. 100. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, spreading, acute segments, 

 permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, wheel-shaped ; tube none ; 

 limb widely expanded, in 5 deep, ovate-oblong segments. 

 Filam. awl-shaped, inserted into the base of the corolla, 

 opposite to each segment. Anth. oblong, notched at each 

 end. Germen roundish. Style thread-shaped, the length 

 of the stamens. Stigma obtuse. Caps, globular, pointed, 

 of 1 cell, and 10 valves, sometimes cohering in pairs. 

 Seeds numerous, angular, covering a large, central, orbi- 

 cular, unconnected, pitted receptacle. 



The stamens are, in some instances, connected at their ori- 

 gin. L. Linum-stellatum, see Fl. Grcec. t. 1 89, has really 

 ten valves to the capsule, though combined in pairs, as in 

 our L. nemorum. The corolla of the former indeed is less 

 deeply 5-cleft than it ought, as Linnaeus remarks, and 

 has really a short tube. 



The whole genus is herbaceous, perennial, less frequently 

 annual. Leaves simple, undivided, entire ; opposite or 

 whorled ; scarcely ever alternate. Fl. scentless, terminal 

 and aggregate, or axillary and solitary, rarely axillary and 

 aggregate. Cor. yellow: in a few white, or flesh-coloured. 



# Stalks many-jlowered. 



1 . L. vulgaris. Great Yellow Loosestrife. 



Clusters panicled, terminal. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute. 



L. vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PI. 209. Willd.v.\.§\6. Fl.Br.227. Engl. 

 Dot. v. 1 1 . t. 7G 1 . Curt. Lond.fasc. 5.t.\9. Hook. Scot. 72. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 689. Bull. Fr. t. 347. 



L. n. 630. Hall. Hist. v. 1.278. 



L. lutea. Rait Syn. 282. Ger. Em. 474./. 



Lysimachia. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 298./. Corner. Epit. 686. f. 



In watery shady places, and reedy margins of rivers. 



Perennial. July. 



Root creeping. Stems 3 or 4 feet high, erect, leafy, with 4 or more 

 angles, according as the leaves are 2 or more together ; simple, 

 except at the top, where each terminates in a copious panicle of 

 handsome yellow flowers, whose corymbose clusters are partly 

 axillary, partly terminal ; their stalks awl-shaped bracteas, and 



