AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. gI 
tandrous flowers, in moist woods and shady 
places, in form so like the scarlet Pimpernel of 
the cornfields, is the Wood Loosestrife, Lyszm- 
achia nemorum,; another common = species, 
often planted on rock-work, is ZL. xummularia, 
Moneywort; these plants are of the Order 
PRIMULACEZ. 
To the same order belong Anagallts arvensis, 
the scarlet Pimpernel, and 4. tenella, the pretty 
little Bog Pimpernel, found in wet places; the 
latter has pinkish flowers and opposite roundish 
leaves on its procumbent stems. The flowers 
of Anagallis are meteorzc, not opening in cloudy 
and damp weather; hence A. arvenszs has been 
called the “shepherd’s barometer.” The cap- 
sules of this genus open witha lid, and illustrate 
the form of seed-vessel called a pyxidium. 
Of the Composir#, several more plants are 
now in bloom ; Wzeractum Pilosella, Mouse-ear 
Hawk-weed, one of the 32 species of this genus; 
a common plant with pale yellow heads of florets, 
the outer ones striped with red, about 6 inches 
high, and sending out stoles, or side shoots 
covered like the rest of the plant with silky 
hair; and [ypocheris radicata, Cat’s-ear, with 
bright yellow heads of flowers, on smooth 
