200 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
some projecting piece of ground, out of reach, 
gazing, as it seems, upon their own picture 
reflected in the water below. The many- 
branched panicle of the Square-stalked St. 
John’s-Wort, Wypericum quadrangulum, rises 
among the rest; and where the bank is less 
thickly occupied, the dangling stems of Lysz- 
machia numnularia, the Money-Wort, creep 
downwards as if seeking the water; while at 
the uppermost edge the Trailing St. John’s- 
Wort, Hypericum humitfusum, often spreads its 
rosettes of thin stems with pretty yellow 
flowers.  Scrophularia aquatica, Figwort, is 
generally found in such habitats, with its dense 
cymes of small dark-purple flowers and winged 
stem. All these, with the admixture of some 
of the damp-loving grasses and overhanging 
shrubs, unite in clothing our river sides with 
abundant and artistic luxuriance. 
