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roundifh, patent leaves, of a bright red. The Jlamina are white, 

 with bright brown Anther*. The piftil or ftyle is long and fili- 

 form, divided at the fummit into four parts and reflex, fucceed- 

 ed by a long cylindric pod or capfule, with four valves, and as 

 many cells, for the feeds, which are numerous, oblong, and 

 winged with down. It is preferable to all our rock-plants for 

 beauty. It is fo hardy, that many of them grow in the lateral 

 chinks of the taller rocks with hardly any vifible earth to fuflain 

 them. It is introduced into Tome of our gardens under the name 

 of the French willow ; but being a great runner, it makes a 

 better figure in its more confined fituation among the rocks, than 

 under culture. It flowers in July and Auguft. It is reputed a 

 fcarce plant. 



4. The great, hairy, purple Willow-Herb, or Liofejlrife (q), ufually 

 called Codlings and Cream, from the fmell of the leaves, VfczAppks 

 and Cream, is plentiful in ditches and by waters. We have it in 

 great abundance in the ditches, and on the ditch-banks, by the 

 mill at Bar-wesford, on North Tyne. 



5. The purple-fpiked Willoiv-Herb, or Loofeftrife (r). In bogs, and 

 by waters. In a boggy meadow by a ftreamlet, between two 



hang- 

 C^J Lyfimachia filiquofa hirfuta magno flore. C. B. Pin. p. 245. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 27. 

 t. ii. f. 3. Lyfimachia hirfuta majore flore purpureo. /. B. ii. p. 905. Epilcbium hirfu- 

 tum magno flore et fpeciofo. Dill. GifT. p. 131. Chamaenerion villofum magno flore pur- 

 pureo. Tourn. Inft. p. p. 303. Epilobium foliis longis, dentatis, villofis, flore magno. 

 Hall. Helv. p. 410. 



(r) Pfuedo-Lyfimachium purpureum alterum. Dod. Pempt. p 86. cum Cluf. Icone. Ly- 

 fimachia altera Matth. Cam. Epit. p. p. 687. bene, Lyfimachia fpicata purpurea. C, B. 

 Pin. p. 246. Lyfimachia purpurea quibufdam fpicata. /. B. ii. p. 902. Lyfimachia purpu- 



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