588 PRIMULACEAE. (Vor. Il. 
2. Lysimachia punctata L. Spotted 
Loosestrife. (Fig. 2812.) 
Lysimachia punctata I. Sp. Pl. 147. 1753. 
Resembles the preceding species, usually 
densely pubescent, sometimes glabrate; stem 
simple or branched, 2°-3° high. Leaves 
verticillate in 3’s or 4’s or some of them op- 
posite, oval or ovate-lanceolate, acute or ob- 
tuse at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the 
base, short-petioled, 1/-3’ long, '%/-1}2’ 
wide, usually proportionately shorter and 
broader than those of Z. vulgaris; flowers 
crowded in the upper axils or racemose- 
verticillate, yellow, 8’/-10’” broad; pedicels 
3//-10’ long; sepals lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute or obtusish; corolla-seg- 
ments glandular-ciliolate; filaments mona- 
delphous at the base. 
In waste places, Nova Scotia to southern New 
Jersey. Adventive from Europe. June-July. 
3. Lysimachia quadrifolia L. Cross- 
wort. Whorled Loosestrife. (Fig. 2813.) 
Lysimachia quadrifolia I,. Sp. Pl. 147. 1753. 
f Pubescent, or glabrate, stem simple or rarely 
Ht (Q branched, slender, erect, 19°-3° high. Leaves 
; -  verticillate in 3’s-7’s (commonly in 4’s or 5's), 
é4 a4 d __ or some, or very rarely all of them opposite, 
short-petioled or sessile, lanceolate, oblong or 
ovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, 1/-4’ 
Py long, 3/’-114’ wide, usually black-punctate, the 
= ? ~ uppermost sometimes very small; flowers axil- 
lary, 3/’-6’’ broad, borne on filiform spreading 
peduncles 14/-114’ long; sepals narrowly lan- 
ceolate, acute or acuminate; corolla glabrous, 
dark-streaked or spotted; filaments monadel- 
phous below; capsule nearly as long as the sepals. 
In thickets, New Brunswick to Minnesota, south 
to Georgia and Wisconsin. June-Aug. 
4. Lysimachia terréstris (L.) B.S.P. 
Bulb-bearing Loosestrife. (Fig. 2814.) 
Viscum terrestre I,. Sp. Pl. 1023. 1753- 
Lysimachia stricta Ait. Hort. Kew. 1: 199. _ 1789. 
Lysimachia stricta var. producta A. Gray, Syn. Pl. 
2: Part 1, 63. 1878. 
L. terrestris B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 34. 1888. 
Glabrous; stem erect, simple or branched, 
§’-2° high, often bearing after flowering long 
bulblets (suppressed branches) in the axils. 
Leaves opposite or some of them rarely alter- 
nate, lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate at both ends, short-petioled, or sessile, 
usually black-punctate, 1/-3/ long, 2’/-S’’ wide; 
flowers 3/’-5’/’ broad, in terminal bracted 
mostly elongated racemes; or some of them 
solitary or 2-3 together in the upper axils; 
pedicels slender or filiform, 5’’-9’’ long; sepals 
ovate or lanceolate, acute; corolla rotate, deeply 
parted, yellow with purple streaks or dots; fila- 
ments monadelphous below, glandular; capsule 
about 114’ in diameter, nearly as long as sepals. 
In swamps and moist thickets, Newfoundland and Manitoba, south to Georgia and Arkansas. 
The plant sometimes produces no flowers, but bears the peculiar bulblets freely in the axils in the 
autumn, and in this condition was mistaken by Linnaeus for a terrestrial mistletoe. July-Sept. 
