^80 PRIMULACE.E. (primrose FAMILY.) 



2. LYSIMACHIA, L. Loosestrife. 



Calvx ."j-partcd. Corolla Avhccl-shapcd, 5-lobcd. 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-valvcd, 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. 



1. L. striata, Ait. Stem smooth, erect, branching ; leaves very numerous, 

 opposite, doited, 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-valvcd, 3- 5-sccdcd. — Var. angustifolia. Leaves linear-lanceolutc, obtuse; 

 lobes of the corolla lanceolate, acute. (L. angustifolia, Michx. L. Loomisii, 

 Tbrr., corolla-lobes broader.) — Low ground in the middle and upper districts. 

 July. — Stem 1"- 2° high. Leaves 2' long. Flowers small. 



2. L. Praseri, Duby. Stem glandu]:ir-i)ubcsccnt 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, oljtuse, entire ; filaments monadel- 

 phous, unequal ; sterile ones none. — South Carolina. Fraser. (*) 



3. L. Herbemonti, Ell. Stem erect, smooth, simple ; leaves (and flow- 

 ers) four in a whorl, ovate-lanceolate, sessile, dotted ; flowers racemose, or. short 

 pedicels, the up]jer ones scattered ; lobes of the corolla oblong-lanceolate, dotted ; 

 filaments nionadcl[)hous at the base. (L. asperuliefolia, Pair '■) — Near Colum- 

 bia, South Carolina, Elliott. North Carolina, Curtis, Cioom. — Stem 2° high. 

 Leaves faintly 3-5-nerved. 



* * Flowers axillary. 



4. L. quadrifolia, L. Stem pubescent, simple ; leaves 4-5 in a whorl, 

 ovate-lanccolatc, 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, lancc- 

 olate-ovatc, 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, Michx.) with the leaves lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, nanowed into a short petiole ; the uppermost, like the peduncles, 

 often whorled ; or (L. heterophylla, Michx.) with the lowest leaves obovatc, the 

 others long, lanceolate; or (L. angustifolia, 7>(m.) with linear nearly sessile 

 leaves, and a more slender stem, and smaller flowers. — Woods and thickets, 

 chiefly in the upper districts, Mississipjii, and northward. July and Aug. — 

 Stem 1 o - 2° hifrh. Leaves 2' - 4' long. 



6. L. radicans, Hook. Smooth tliroii^^Iintit ; stem long, prostrate; the 

 slender branches often rooting at the apex ; leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, on long and slender petioles ; p< duncles longer than the leaves ; corolla 



