PRIMULACEAE. 



[Vol.. II. 



2. Lysimachia punctata L. Spotted 

 Loosestrife. (Fig. 2812.) 



Lysimachia punctata L. Sp. PI. 147. 1753. 



Resembles the preceding species, usually 

 densely pubescent, sometimes glabrate; stem 

 simple or branched, 2-3 high. Leaves 

 verticillate in 3*3 or 4's or some of them op- 

 posite, oval or ovate-lanceolate, acute or ob- 

 tuse at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the 

 base, short-petioled, i'-$ f long, %'-i}6' 

 wide, usually proportionately shorter and 

 broader than those of L. vulgaris; flowers 

 crowded in the upper axils or racemose- 

 verticillate, yellow, 8 // -io // broad; pedicels 

 3 // -io // long; sepals lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute or obtusish; corolla-seg- 

 ments glandular-ciliolate; filaments moua- 

 delphous at the base. 



In waste places, Nova Scotia to southern New- 

 Jersey. Adventive from Europe. June-July. 



3- Lysimachia quadrifdlia L. Cross- 

 wort. Whorled Loosestrife. (Fig. 2813. ) 



Lysimachia quadrifolia L. Sp. PI. 147. 1753. 



Pubescent, or glabrate, stem simple or rarely 

 branched, slender, erect, i-3 high. Leaves 

 verticillate in 3*8-7*8 (commonly in 4's or 5*8), 

 or some, or very rarely all of them opposite, 

 short-petioled or sessile, lanceolate, oblong or 

 ovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, i'-4' 

 long, $"-i}4' wide, usually black-punctate, the 

 uppermost sometimes very small; flowers axil- 

 lary, 3 // -6 // broad, borne on filiform spreading 

 peduncles %'-i#' long; sepals narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, acute or acuminate; corolla glabrous, 

 dark-streaked or spotted; filaments monadcl- 

 phous below; capsule nearly as long as the sepals. 



In thickets. New Brunswick to Minnesota, south 

 to Georgia and Wisconsin. June-Aug. 



4. Lysimachia terrestris (L.) B.S.P. 

 Bulb-bearing Loosestrife. ( Fig. 2814.) 



Viscum I er rest re L. Sp. PI. 1023. 1753. 

 Lysimachia stricta Ait. Hort. Kew. i: 199. 1789. 

 ichia stricta var. producta A. Gray, Syn. PI. 



3: Part i, 63. 1878. 

 L. terrestris B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 34. 1888. 



Glabrous; stem erect, simple or branched, 

 8 / -2 high, often bearing after flowering long 

 bulblets (suppressed branches) in the axils. 

 Leaves opposite or some of them rarely alter- 

 nate, lanceolate or oblong -lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate at both ends, short-petioled, or sessile, 

 usually black-punctate, \'-$ f long, 2 // -8 // wide; 

 flowers 3 // -5 // broad, in terminal bractcd 

 mostly elongated racemes; or some of them 

 solitary or 2-3 together in the upper axils; 

 pedicels slender or filiform, $"-<)" long; sepals 

 ovate or lanceolate, acute; corolla rotate, deeply 

 parted, yellow with purple streaks or dots; fila- 

 ments monadclphous below, glandular; capsule 

 about i%" in diameter, nearly as long as sepals. 



In swamps and moist thickets, Newfoundland and Manitoba, south to Georgia and Arkansas. 

 The plant sometimes produces no flowers, but bears the peculiar bulblets freely in the axils in the 

 autumn, and in this condition was mistaken by Linnaeus for a terrestrial mistletoe. July-Sept. 



