96 FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



that succeeds the blossom has a way of twisting- round on 

 its. stalk in the same manner as the pimpernel does, 

 and on this account and from general similarity to that 

 flower the old authors often called the wood loosestrife the 

 yellow pimpernel. A drawing of the pimpernel will be 

 found at page 53 in our second volume, so that a com- 

 parison of the two plants may be readily made. 



