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On wet banks and rocks, Maine to Newfoundland, Michigan and 

 Saskatchewan. In New York known only in a few localities in the northern 

 and western parts of the State, cliffs along Fish creek, north of Taberg, 

 Oneida county; Cayuga lake; Fall creek, Ithaca; Portage and Niagara Falls. 



Crosswort; Whorled Loosestrife 



Lysimachia quadrifolia Linnaeus 



Plate i6ob 



Stems usually simple, slender, erect, i to 2\ feet high, more or less 

 pubescent. Leaves whorled, usually in fours or fives, sometimes the lower 

 ones opposite, sessile or nearly so, lanceolate to ovate, pointed at the apex, 

 i to 4 inches long, one-fourth to i inch wide, usually black-dotted, the upper 

 ones usually reduced to a small size. Flowers yellow, one-fourth to one- 

 half of an inch broad, axillary, usually one in the axis of each of the four 

 or five leaves at each node, on slender stalks, one-half to \\ inches long. 

 Corolla rotate, streaked with dark lines or spotted; sepals narrow and long 

 pointed. Fruit a small capsule about as long as the calyx. 



In moist soil, thickets and marshes, New Brunswick to Minnesota, 

 south to Georgia, Tennessee and Wisconsin. Flowering from June to 

 August. 



Bulb-bearing Loosestrife; Swamp Candles 



Lysimachia terrestris (Linnaeus) Britton, Sterns & Poggenberg 



Plate i6ib 



Stem simple or sparingly branched, erect, smooth, 8 to 20 inches high. 

 Leaves usually opposite, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, sharp pointed at 

 both ends, nearly sessile and usually dotted with black, i to 3 inches long, 

 one-sixth to two-thirds of an inch wide; often bearing, after flowering time, 

 long bulblets (suppressed branches) in the axils, especially in the autumn. 

 It was this condition that was mistaken by Linnaeus for a Mistletoe, under 

 which group he originally classified it. Flowers one-fourth to one-third of 

 an inch broad, chiefly in the axils of the upper and smaller leaves and form- 

 ing a terminal leafy raceme; stalks of the flowers slender, one-half to three- 



