280 PRIMULACEZ. (PRIMROSE FAMILY.) 
2. LYSIMACHIA, L. LOOSESTRIFE. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla wheel-shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens 5; the filaments ! 
often monadelphous at the base, and commonly with the rudiment of a sterile” 
one interposed. Style slender. Capsule globose, 5- 10-valved, few - many- 
seeded. Seeds amphitropous. — Perennial herbs, with entire opposite or whorled- 
leaves, and axillary or racemose yellow flowers. 
** Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. e 
“1. L. stricta, Ait. Stem smooth, erect, branching; leaves very numerous, 
opposite, dotted, lanceolate, acute at each end; racemes long, leafy at the base; 
pedicels slender; lobes of the corolla lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, entire, marked 
with dark lines ; filaments monadelphous, unequal ; sterile ones none; capsule 
5-valved, 3— 5-seeded.— Var. ANGUSTIFOLIA. Leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse; 
lobes of the corolla lanceolate, acute. (L. angustifolia, Miche. L. Loomisii, 
Torr., corolla-lobes broader.) — Low ground in the middle and upper districts. - 
July.— Stem 19-29 high. Leaves 2'long. Flowers small. i 
2. L. Fraseri, Duby. Stem glandular-pubescent at the summit, erect; 
leaves opposite, ovate or cordate-ovate, acuminate, narrowed into a short petiole; _ 
flowers in a leafless panicle; calyx bell-shaped, the lobes fringed on the mar 
gins; lobes of the corolla ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, entire; filaments monadel- 
phous, unequal ; sterile ones none.— South Carolina. Fraser. (*) 
3. L. Herbemonti, Ell. Stem erect, smooth, simple ; leaves (and flow- ee 
ers) four in a whorl, ovate-lanceolate, sessile, dotted ; flowers racemose, or. short 
pedicels, the upper ones scattered ; lobes of the corolla oblong-lanceolate, dotted ; 
filaments monadelphous at the base. (L. asperuleefolia, Poir ?) — Near Colum- 
bia, South Carolina, Elliott. North Carolina, Curtis, Croom. — Stem 2° high. 
Leaves faintly 3 — 5-nerved. 
*^* Flowers axillary. 
- 4. L. quadrifolia, L. Stem pubescent, simple; leaves 4-5 in à whorl, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, dotted, sessile; peduncles filiform ; lobes of the corolla 
ovate-oblong, dotted, filaments monadelphous. — Shady woods in the upper dis- 
tricts, and northward. July. — Stem 2° high. : 
5. L. ciliata, L. Stem mostly branching, smooth ; leaves opposite, lance" 
olate-ovate, acute, cordate or rounded at the base, on ciliate petioles ; corolla 
longer than the calyx, with broadly ovate or roundish denticulate lobes ; pedun- 
cles opposite. — Varies (L. hybrida, Miche.) with the leaves lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, narrowed into a short petiole; the uppermost, like the peduncles, . 
often whorled ; or (L. heterophylla, Michz.) with the lowest leaves obovate, e 
others long, lanceolate; or (L. angustifolia, Zam.) with linear nearly sessile 
leaves, and a more slender stem, and smaller flowers. — Woods and thickets, 
Stem 19-29 high. - 
