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labiata', where it does not occur the plants are absent. The females 

 are abundant on the sun plant. 



The flower is visited by Macropis, Halictus, Andrena, Odynerus, 

 and a fly, Syritta pipiens. Macropis labiata is the chief visitor. 



The capsule being 5-valved and many-seeded, the seeds are shaken 

 out by the wind at the top. 



Yellow Loosestrife is largely a peat-loving plant, requiring a moist 

 peaty soil, either sandy or clayey. 



Two beetles, Crepidodera salicarice, Galeruca sagittarii, two 

 Hymenoptera, Macropis labiata, Selandria luteola, two moths, Den- 

 tated Pug (Collix sparsata}, Powdered Quaker ( Tceniocampa gracilis], 

 are found on it. 



Lysimachia, Dioscoricles, is from the Greek hto, loose, mache, battle, 

 or loose-strife; and the second Latin name suggests that it is common, 

 but this is a mistake. 



Golden Loosestrife, Herb Willow, Yellow Loosestrife, Willow 

 Herb, Golden or Yellow Willow Herb, Willow Wort, Yellow Rocket, 

 are some of its English synonyms. The name is thus explained by 

 Gerard: "An adaptation of the last name Lysimachia, which, as 

 Dioscorides and Plinie doe write, tooke his name of a speciall vertue 

 that it hath in appeasing the strife and unrulinesse which falleth out 

 among oxen at the plough, if it be put about their yokes, but it rather 

 retaineth and keepeth the name lysimachia of King Lysimachus, the 

 son of Agathodes, the first finder out of the nature and vertues of this 

 herbe, as Plinie saith ". 



The plant is cultivated, and is more deserving of notice than many 

 others that are more popular at present. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



20 1. Lysimachia vulgaris, L. Stem erect, branched, leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, sub -sessile, in whorls, opposite, flowers yellow, in 

 terminal panicle, or axillary, stamens united. 



Moneywort (Lysimachia Nummularia, L.) 



Common in damp places, and known as Creeping Jenny in the 

 garden, Moneywort is a plant of the Northern Temperate Zone, found 

 in Europe generally, and a garden escape only in the Northern United 

 States. It is unknown earlier than in the present-day flora. In Great 

 Britain it is absent from Cornwall in the Peninsular province, occurring 

 in the Channel province; in the Thames, Anglia, Severn provinces 

 generally, but in S. Wales not in Radnor, and in N. Wales in 



