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hanging banks at Belfay, near the chapel, plentifully. At the 

 weft end of Halypike-lakz, among the dwarf willows and rufhes, 

 fparingly. The root is woody, thick, and divaricated. The 

 ftalks are firm, four-cornered, with a blufh of red towards the 

 bafe, very much branched, from a foot and a half to three feet 



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high. There are two, and fometimes three leaves, at a joint, 

 long, narrow, and pointed, of a dufky, green colour. The 

 flowers are hexapetalous, of a ftrong purple, in verticillate cluf- 

 ters, in the alte of the leaves, in long beautiful fpikes. The feeds 

 are yellow, finall, oblong, and pointed, in a bilocular capfule. 



6. The lejjcrfpiked Willow-Herb > or Loofe-JIrife (sj. In bogs. At 

 the weft end of Halypike-lako. with the former. On a wet fwampy 

 bank on the north fide of the river Aln at Denivick, near Alnivick. 

 The ftalks are four-cornered, and very much branched, from a 

 foot, to a foot and a half high. The leaves are fomewhat broad 

 at the bafe, and ovated towards the ends, of a fmooth lively 

 green. The flowers are in thin fpikes, rifing from the alse of the 

 leaves, of a bright purplifh-red. Under culture it rivals the 

 former for ftature, and out-does it for beauty. The branches 

 are numerous. The flowers alfo become numerous, in verticil- 

 late clufters, on very mort pedicles, in tall fpikes, making a 

 great mew on the larger borders of flowers and mrubs. It is not 

 a common plant. 



rea fpieata. Raj. Hift. p. 1036. Lythrum foliis oppofitis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 178. Flo. 

 Suec. p. 142. n. 393. Lythrum foliis oblongis acutis, floribus verticillatis. Flo. Lapp, 

 n. 197. Salicaria floribus fpicatis floribus conjugatis. Hall. Halv. p. 405, 406. 



(s) Lyfimachia minor rubro flore, Clnf. Pann. p. 477, 478. Lyfimachia purpurea minor, 

 f. ii. ej. Hift. p. 51. 52. Raj. Hift. p. 1036. Lyfimachia purpurea Pannonica. 7. B. ii. 

 p. 305. Lyfimachia rubra non filiquofa. C. B. Pin. Salicaria trifolia, caule hexagono. 

 Tourn. Jnft. 253. . Syn. Linn. Flo. Suec. p. 142. ii. HaI!.[He\v. p. 406. cum defcriptione 

 optima. 



7. The 



