386 LXXXIl. PRIMULACEZ. ‘LysimacHia 
serrulate, acuminate; sep, linear, acuminate. This little plant is common in 
the rocky woods of N. Eng., N. Y., and Brit. Am. Stem 3—6/ high, with an 
irregular whorl of 4—8 lanceolate, smooth and shining i:eaves at the top. In 
the midst of these are 1—4 white, star-like flowers, borne on simple, filiform 
edicels. The leaves are mostly acuminate at each end, 3’ long and 1’ wide. 
egments of the corolla longer than the acute calyx leaves. Seeds attached to 
acentral, spongy placenta. May, Jn. 
Ss GLAD. 
GT. ydavkos, bluish or glaucous ; from the hue of the plant. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, colored ; corolla 0; stamens 5; cap- 
sule roundish, surrounded by the calyx, 5-valved, 5-seeded.—2% Mari- 
time, branching, glabrous. . 
G. maritima. Black Saltwort. 
A small, smooth, fleshy plant, found occasionally in the salt marshes on 
our seacoast, Can. to N. J. Root perennial. Stem more or less procumbent at 
base, 4—6/ high, smooth, branching, and very leafy. Leaves } in length, 
roundish-ovate, obtuse, entire, nearly or quite sessile, smooth, fleshy and darkly 
glaucous. Flowers small, sessile, axillary, solitary. Calyx white, tinged with 
red. July. 
6. NAUMBURGIA. Mench. 
Calyx and cor. deeply 5—6-parted ; pet. linear-lanceolate, spread- 
ing, separated by minute, intervening teeth ; sta. 5—6, inserted into 
the base of the corolla, exserted; anth. cordate; caps. globose, 5- 
valved ; seeds few, on a globose placenta.—% with opposite lus, F's. 
small, in dense, thyrsoid racemes. 
N. Tayrsirtora. Mench. (Lysimachia. Linn. and 1stedit. L. capitata. 
Ph.)—An erect, smooth herb, about 2f high, in swamps, Mass., Vt., N. 
Y.! W. to Ohio! N. to Arc. Am. Leaves many pairs, sessile, lanceolate, 
acute, entire, punctate, somewhat canescent beneath, 2—3/ by 3—1’.  Racemes 
somewhat capitate, on filiform, axillary peduncles. Flowers yellow. Stamens 
much exserted, united into a tube atbase. Jn. 
+» 7. LYSIMACHIA. 
Calyx 5-parted, rotate or campanulate, tube very short; sta. 5, in- 
serted into the corolla at base; fil. often somewhat connate, or with 
intervening sterile ones; caps. globose, 5—10-valved, opening at the 
apex; seeds 00.— Herbs mostly 1, with opposite or verticillate, entire lvs. 
ae 1. L. srricra. Ait. (L. racemosa. Mz. Viscum terrestre. Linn.) 
Simple or branched, erect; lvs. opposite or ternate, lanceolate or lance- 
linear, glabrous, punctate, acute, sessile; ffs. verticillate, in a long, lax, termi- 
nal raceme; pet. lanceolate, spreading.—2| In low, wet grounds, Can., N. Eng. 
to Va. and Ohio. Common. Plant smooth, 1—2f high, bearing at top a regu- 
lar, cylindric or conical raceme, 6—8’ long. Peduncles an inch in length 
quite spreading, each with a subulate bract at base. Stamens 2 long and a 
short, united at base. Flowers yellow, spotted with purple. Capsules 5-seed-. 
ed. After flowering it throws out bulblets from the axils of the leaves, which: 
will produce new plants the following spring. July. is 
_ 2. L. cmiata. Fringe-stalk pgaeat Heart-leaved Loosestrife. 
“Subsimple, erect; /vs. opposite, rarely quaternate, ovate, subcordate or 
ovate-lanceolate, petioles ciliate upper side; fis. nodding, mostly opposite; sta. 
distinct, with 5abortive filaments.— 2. In gravely soils and near streams, U. S. 
and Can. Root creeping. Stem somewhat 4-sided, 2—3f high, simple or with 
a few. cuposite branches, Leaves large, pointed, somewhat cordate at base, on. 
etioles fringed with cilew, the upper ones apparently quaternate. Flowers. 
frost yellow, axillary. Stamens inserted into a ring, nearly equal, with 5 al. 
ternate and intermediate, rudimentary filaments or teeth. July. 
