OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Epilobium. 213 



many places in the south of Scotland. Hooker. On a rising 

 ground, beyond the Robin Hood inn, in the road to Kingston- 

 upon-Thames, 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root creeping, fleshy, with numerous buds. Stems from 3 to 6 

 feet high, erect, roundish, leafy, smooth, reddish, seldom branched. 

 Leaves scattered, numerous, nearly sessile, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, various in breadth, entire, or slightly toothed, smooth, 

 veiny, single-ribbed ; glaucous beneath. Fl. crimson, inodorous, 

 very handsome, numerous, in long, terminal, upright clusters, 

 with a small linear bractea under each partial stalk. Cermcns 

 hoary, purj)lish on the upper side. Stam. and style bent down- 

 war(ls. Pollen blue. 



A very ornamental flower, common in gardens, where it in- 

 creases but too rapidly ; thriving, like many mountain plants, 

 even in the smoky air of London. There is a white variety. 

 Bauhin's «. 7, L. Chnmcenerion dicta angustijoiia, usually taken > 

 to be this plant, seems, from some of his synonyms, what is now 

 named E. angustissbnuin , which is likewise his ;/. 8. 



** Flowers rc<rular. Sligma dccplij ^-cleft. 



2. E. hirsutftni. Great Hairy Willow-herb. Cod- 

 lings and Cream. 



Leaves half clasping the stem, ovate-lanceolate, hairy. Stem 

 copiously branched. Root creeping. 



E. hirsutum. Linn. Sp. PL 494. JVilld. v. 2. 315. FL Br. 410. 

 Engl. hot. V. 12. ^.838. Curt. Land. fasc. 2. t.2\. Hook. 

 Scot. 117. Fl.Dan. t.326. 



E. ramosum. Huds. 1G2. Ehrh. Herb. loS, 



E. n.99r>,a. HalL Hist. v. \. 425. 



Lysimachia siliquosa hirsuta, magno flore. Bauh. Pin. 245. Raii 

 Sun. 311. Moris, v. 2. 270. sect. 3. M 1 . /. 3. 



L. siliquosa. Ger. Em. 476./. 



L. pur|)urea. Fuclis. Hist. 49 1 ./. 



In watery i)laces, ditches, and margins of rivers, among reeds, 

 coarse grasses, and willows, common. 



Perennial. July. 



Root creej)ing extensively. Whole herb downy, soft, and clammy, 

 exhaling a ])eculiar acidulous scent, justly comi)ared to the fla- 

 vour of boiled codlings and cream. Stems 4 feet, or more, in 

 height, round, leafy, branched and bushy. Lower leaves oppo- 

 site, cUtsping the stem, or in some measure dicurrent ; u/>i>pr 

 alternate, and merely sessile ; all toothed. FL in leafy cor^m- 

 bose clusters, large, of a delicate pink, with cloven regular 

 petah. and erect stamens and style. Germen downy, very long. 



