PENTANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Lysimachia. 279 



pointed, fringed calyx, all more or less downy. Leaves on short 

 stalks, 2, 3, or 4 together, 2 or 3 inches long, varying in breadth, 

 single-ribbed, veiny ; often downy beneath. Fl. an inch broad. 

 Stam. combined, smooth. Caps, rarely perfected. 



2. L. thyrsiflora. Tufted Loosestrife. 

 Clusters lateral, axillary, stalked. 



L. thyrsiflora. Linn. Sp. PL 209. Willd. v. 1. 818. Fl. Br. 228. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 3. t.\76. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 187. Hook. Scot. 

 72. Fl.Dan.t.b\7. 



L. n. 631. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 279. 



L. lutea, flore globoso. Raii Syn. 283. Ger. Em. 475./. How 

 Phyt.7\. 



L. lutea. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 53. both Jig. 



Lysimachium aquatile. Dod. Pempt. 607./. 



In watery places, very rare in England. 



In the East Riding of Yorkshire - } Mr. Dodsworth. Ray. By King's 

 Langley, Hertfordshire. How. InAngleseaj Mr. Lhwyd. Dil- 

 lenius. By the side of Loch Lomond ; in a bog at Forfar ; and 

 very plentifully in the borders of a lake, 4 miles east of Forfar. 

 Mr. J. Mackay. In a marsh beyond Possil, North Britain ; Mr. 

 Hopkirk ; and by the lakes of Rescabie and Balgawen, Angus- 

 shire, frequent j Mr. David Don. Hooker, 



Perennial. July. 



Roots creeping, with whorled fibres. Stems 1 — 2 feet high, round, 

 quite simple, erect, leafy, slightly woolly. Leaves numerous, 

 opposite, sessile, smooth, lanceolate. Fl. small, yellow, in dense, 

 slightly branched, stalked, solitary, ovate, opposite, axillary, 

 downy clusters, about the middle part of the stem. Cor. dotted 

 with red, perfectly wheel-shaped, with solitary minute teeth 

 between the segments. Stam. smooth, slender, as long as the 

 corolla, or longer. Capsules rarely seen. 



* * Stalks single-jlovoered. 



3. L. nemorum. Wood Loosestrife. Yellow Pim- 



pernel. 



Leaves ovate, acute. Flowers solitary. Stem procumbent. 

 Stamens smooth. 



L. nemorum. Linn. Sp. P1.2W. Willd. v. 1. 820. Fl. Br. 228. 



Engl. Bot. v. 8. t. 527. Curt. Loud. fasc. 5. t. 18. Hook. Scot. 72. 



FL Dan. t. 174. Ehrh. Phyt. 33. 

 L. n. 628. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 278. 

 Anagallis lutea. Raii Syn. 282. Ger. Em. 618. f. 

 A. flavo flore. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 182, f. 

 In moist woods, and shady,, rather watery., places, 



