148 ENGLISH BOTANY, 



garden once belonging to a lodge, now pnlled down, and the Lysi- 

 machia now marks the spot once occupied by the garden. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



Rootstock extensively creeping. Stem slender, 1 to 3 feet high. 

 Leaves spreading, distant, except at the apex of the stem, usually "\vitli 

 a pair of small ones in their axils; lamina often subcordate at the 

 base, acuminate, very acute, 2 to 4 inches long. Peduncles from the 

 axils of a few of the upper pairs of leaves, ^ to 2 inches long, glabrous, 

 curved at the apex : the inteniodes between the last few pairs of leaves 

 at the apex of the stem remain very short, and the peduncles from 

 the axils of these form a false corymb, apparently terminating the stem. 

 Flowers about 1 inch across, pale yellow. Plant light green, the leaves 

 paler beneath. 



Ciliated Loosestrife. 



SPECIES V.-LYSIMACHIA N U M M U L ARI A. Linn. 



Plate MCXLIV. 



Beicli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MLXXXIV. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1753. 



Stems prostrate throughout, flexible, rooting at the base. Leaves 

 opposite, very shortly stalked, roundish or roundish-ovate or -oval, 

 obtuse, punctate. Flowers solitary or in pairs in the axils of a feAV of 

 the leaves towards the middle of the stems ; peduncles axillary, oppo- 

 site, 1-flowered or forked from the very base, and each fork 1-flowered, 

 rather shorter than the leaves. Calyx segments ovate, cordate, acute. 

 Corolla saucershaped, with 5 rhomboidal-oval obtuse repand ascending- 

 spreading segments, without a tooth in the sinus between them, 

 sparingly dotted with yellow glands on both sides, and with a few 

 reddish points, very shortly ciliated with minute glands. Stamens 5 ; 

 filaments thickly dotted with glands, and united at the base into a very 

 short ring. Plant glabrous. 



In damp meadows and pastures, and by the sides of ditches and 

 streams. Rather local. Generally distributed in England. Rare and 

 very doubtfully native in Scotland, where it is reported to occur 

 in the counties of Dumfi-ies, Lanark, Berwick, Roxburgh, and Forfar. 

 In Ireland it is doubtfully native, but the authors of the " Cybele 

 Hibernica " consider that it may be indigenous in the eastern and 

 north-eastern counties. 



England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Stems numerous, branched chiefly towards the base, 6 inches to 2 feet 



