211 OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Epilobium. 



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

 herb. 



Leaves sessile, lanceolate, downy. Stem nearly simple, 

 woolly. Root fibrous. 



E. parviflorum. Schreh.Li'psAAQ. mth.367. H. Br. 4\0. Engl. 



Bot. V. 12. t. 795. Hook. Scot. 117. 

 E. pubescens. Willd. Sp. PL t\ 2. 315. 

 E. hirsutiim. Hucls. 1 Gl . Linn. Sp. PL 494, (3. 

 E. villosum. Curt. Lond. fasc. 2. t. 22. Rclh. 152. Slbth. 12 i. 



Abbot 84. Ehrh. Herb. 104. 

 E. foliis longis dentatis villosis, flora uarvo. HalL Erium. 410. FL 



Dan. L347. 

 E. n. 995, /3. HalL Hist. v. 1. 425. 

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



116. Rail Sijn.Sil. Moris, v. 2. 2/0. sect. 3. t. 11./. 4. 

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



Frequent in watery places and about the banks of rivers. 



Perennial. Juhj. 



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 wooiliness. Leaves most of tliem 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. montanum. Linn. Sp. PL 494, Willd. v.2.3\ 6. FL i?r. 4 1 1 : 

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

 Scot 117. FL Dan. t. 922. Ehrh. Herb. 114. 



E. n. 996. HalL Hist. v. 1. 426. 



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

 270. sect. 3. LU.f.5. 



L. campestris. Ger. Em. 478. f. Raii Sijn. 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 1 or 2 feet high, 

 erect, round, leafy, smooth or minutely downy, scarcely branched, 

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

 toothed, smooth and pliant, with hoary veins 3 upper alternate 



