WOOD LOOSESTKIFE. 



Lysimachia iwmorum. Nat. Ord., 

 Primulacea. 



E have 111 Britain four species 

 of yellow loosestrife, and we 

 have now, including the present 

 illustration, had the pleasure 

 of introducing our readers to 

 three of them. All these 

 belong to the same genus, 

 Lysimachia, and in addition 

 to these there is another plant 

 of a quite different genus, 

 the purple loosestrife or Ly th- 

 rum Salicaria, of which also 

 we have furnished an illus- 

 tration. Of the yellow loose- 

 strifes, the plants already 

 figured have been the L. 

 vulgaris, or great yellow 

 loosestrife, so conspicuous an 

 adornment of our river-sides, as it throws up its 

 stem some three feet high, and bears on its summit 

 its clustering golden flowers; and the L. nummnlaria, 

 the creeping loosestrife, money-wort, herb-twopence, or 

 creeping-Jenny (for it is a general favourite, and has many 

 popular names), which sends its long lines of conspicuous 



