7'L PENTAND. MONOG. 



5 -cleft, pale reddish, its upper side clothed with long, white, fila- 

 mentous appendages. Leaves, used as Tea,, considered by the 

 .Highlanders to strengthen weak stomachs, T>r. Stuart. 



13. LYSIMACHIA. 



* Peduncles many -flowered. 



1. L. vulgaris (yellow Loosestrife), leaves ovato-lanceolate opr 

 posite ter- or quaternate, panicle terminal. Liqhtf. p. 138. 

 E. B. t.76\. 



HAB. Wet shady places, and the sides of rivers. Isle of Mull, Light/ \ 

 Banks of Clyde at Bowling bay j Kenmuir banks, Glasg., H&pk. 

 Castle Loch, at Lochmaben, Dumfries -shire j in a field by the road- 

 side opposite the hill of Dumbuck, Dumbartonshire, Maugh. Isle 

 in the Loch of Montcith, Rev. Dr. Graham. Daldowie, Dr. Brown. 

 Fl. July. I/ . 



Erect, two to three feet high. Leaves nearly sessile, glabrous or 

 downy beneath. Panicle large, leafy, much branched. Corollas 

 lar: 



2. L. thyrsiflora (tufted Loosestrife) Cleaves opposite lanceolate, 

 racemes pedunculated lateral. E. B. t. 176. 



HAB. Watery places, rare. Margin of a drain in a marsh beyond Fossil, 

 south side of the canal, near the west end, Hopk. Edge of a 

 lake to the N. of Glasgow, Fl. Brit. ; where Mr. Hopkirk has 

 sought for it in vain. Margins of Rescabie and Balgawen Lakes, 

 Angus-shire, frequent ; and Duddingston Loch, Edinb., D. Don. 

 Fl. July. 11 . 



Sterna one to two feet high. Flowers numerous, small, crowded in 

 axillary, pedunculated racemes. Cor. deeply cleft into very nar- 

 row segments, yellow, and as well as the cal. spotted with orange. 



** Peduncles l-Jlowered. 



3. L. Nemorum (yellow Pimpernel, or Wood- Loo seslrife), leaves 

 ovate acute, stem creeping, peduncles solitary, calycine seg- 

 ments linear-subulate, stamens smooth. Lighif. p. 138. 

 E. B. t. 527. 



HAB. Woods and shady places, frequent. Fl. summer months. 3/ . 



4. L. Nummularia (Moneywort], leaves subcordate obtuse, stem 

 procumbent, peduncles solitary, calycine segments ovate acute^ 

 stamens glandular. Lightf. p. 138. E. B. t. 528. 



HAB. Shady places and pastures. Banks of the Clyde at Kenmuir 

 and Bothwell, Hdpk. Shady banks of the Esk, Angus-shire, 

 abundant, D. Don. Daldowie, Dr. Brown. 



14. ANAGALLIS. 



1. A. arvensls (scarlet Pimpernel), leaves ovate sessile dotted 

 beneath, margin of the cor. broadly and very obtusely crenate 

 piloso-glandulose. Lightf. p. 139. E. B'.t. 529. 



HAB. Corn-fields, abundant. Fl. June, July. 0. 

 Flowers scarlet. 



2. A. ccerulea (Hue Pimpernel] , leaves ovate sessile dotted be- 



