II2 FLOWERS OF LAKES, RIVERS, ETC. 



Merioneth, Montgomery, Carnarvon, and Denbigh only; and through- 

 out the Trent and Mersey provinces, except in Mid Lanes in the 

 H umber; Tyne provinces, except in Cheviotland; in the Lakes pro- 

 vince, except the Isle of Man; in the W. Lowlands, except in Kirk- 

 cudbright, and it 'is found in Stirling. Watson considers that it is not 

 native in Scotland, or beyond York and Durham in England, and it is 

 introduced in E. Lowlands. It is not native in Ireland, and rare. 



Moneywort is a more 

 or less common plant in 

 damp places, such as 

 marshy tracts bordering a 

 river or lake, where there 

 is some shade and shelter 

 from trees, and it is also 

 characteristic of moist 

 woodlands, carpeting the 

 banks of ditches and 

 banks where natural 

 glades or artificial rides 

 allow daylight to enter 

 unhindered. 



The habit of this 

 species is very different 

 to that of the Common 

 Loosestrife, being trail- 

 ing or creeping. It has 

 numerous simple stems, 

 branched, jointed, and 

 channelled each side, or 

 square. The leaves are 

 roundish, opposite, heart- 

 shaped, smooth, shortly -stalked, and decurrent. 



The flowers are large, yellow, solitary, axillary, and wheel-shaped. 

 The sepals are egg-shaped to heart-shaped, bent back, and keeled 

 underneath. The corolla is deeply divided. The anther-stalks are 

 united at the base. Fruit is rarely produced. Being prostrate it is 

 scarcely more than 3 in. in height. Flowers are found in June and 

 July. It is a herbaceous perennial, reproduced by division. 



The flowers are conspicuous but prostrate, and though homogamous 

 they do not set good seed, because the flowers of the same neighbour- 

 hood are usually from the same stock. Otherwise the flowers are as in 



MOXKYWORT (Lysimachia Nummularia, L. ) 



