144 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Chester, and Cumberland. In Scotland in the counties of Lanark, 

 Stirling, Forfar, and Dumbarton. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer, 



Rootstock extensively creeping, emitting long stolons. Stem stout, 

 1 to 2 feet high, when growmg in water emitting roots at the lower 

 nodes. Lower leaves reduced to ovate scales, becoming larger until 

 they pass into ordinary leaves. Leaves largest about the middle 

 of the stem, 2 to 4 inches long, opposite, rarely 3 or 4 in a whorl, 

 tapering towards the apex, much longer than the upper nodes. Racemes 

 produced from the axils of 2 or 3 of the pau-s of leaves about or a 

 little below the middle of the stem, shortly above where the leaves 

 lose their scale-like appearance. Peduncles erect or erect-ascending, 

 rather shorter than the leaves, being (including the racemes) from li 

 to 3 inches long, the raceme itself ^ to 1^ inch long, cylindrical- 

 oblong, dense, many-flowered. Bracts strapshaped, punctate, the 

 lower ones usually shorter than the pedicels. Pedicels slender, longer 

 than the calyx, with a few gland-tipped hairs above. Calyx truncate 

 at the base. Corolla about -\ inch long, bellshaped, nearly twice as 

 lono' as the calyx, ochreous-yellow, spotted with purplish black. 

 Style and anthers visually exceeding the petals. Capsule ovoid, spotted 

 ■with black, half as long as the calyx. Seeds few, angulated. Plant 

 o-reen, glabrous, the leaves glaucous beneath, and with a few woolly 

 hairs upon the midrib, and also on a few of the principal veins, thickly 

 punctate with minute reddish-black dots. 



Tufted Loosestrife. 



French, Lysimarpie a houqiids. German, sfrausshluflugcr Fricdlus. 



Sub-Genus 1L_LYSIMASTRUM. Diibrj. 



Seo-ments of the corolla without any tooth between them. Seeds 

 smooth, more or less margined. Flowers yelloAV, on simple or 

 branched axillary peduncles or in a terminal panicle. Stamens in- 

 cluded. 



SPECIES II.— L YSIMACHIA VULGARIS. Linn. 



Platr MCXLI. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, ct Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MLXXXVI. Fig. 2. 

 nillot, Fl. Gall, ct Germ. Exsicc. No. 1928. 



Stem erect, stiff. Leaves verticillate or opposite, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, not amplexicaul, ovate or lanceolate, remotely punctate, 

 sprinkled with black dots. Flowers in a short terminal panicle, nearly 

 leafless at the apex. Peduncles axillary, mostly branched. Calyx 



