10 THE STORY -OF PLANT Lifzé 
regular with a similar number of lobes, but in Glaux 
is absent. The lobes of the limb of the corolla alter- 
nate with those of the calyx. Opposite the corolla 
lobes the stamens are inserted upon the corolla tube. 
There may be five staminodes which alternate with 
the petals. The ovary contains many ovules and is 
one-celled. The stigma is capitate. There is a 
single style, which may be long, short, or interme- 
diate in length. The fruit is a capsule dehiscing by 
teeth, and may contain few or many seeds. 
GREAT YELLOW LOOSESTRIFE (Lysimachia 
vulgaris). 
This handsome plant, which often finds its way into 
the garden, is found in most parts of the British Isles, 
though it is nowhere common, and is rare in Scotland, 
local in Ireland. 
Unlike its near allies, the Wood Loosestrife and 
Creeping Jenny, it is not usually found in woods, 
but is found generally in wet places, by riversides and 
other similar tracts; but drainage has affected its 
distribution like many other plants. 
It is tall, erect, branched, shrub-like in habit, 
forming a clump, and altogether a conspicuous 
plant. The leaves are opposite, in threes and fours, 
oblong, lanceolate, sessile, entire, glabrous. When 
the leaves are in pairs the stem is quadrangular ; — 
when there are three leaves it is grooved and 
angular. 
