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The only other species is the Bog Pimpernel, a very delicate rose- 

 colored flower, that .grows on wet heaths, where cultivation never 

 smiled." There is a blue variety of Anagallis arveusis that was once 

 thought to be a distinct kind. 



LOOSESTRIFE. LYSIMACHIA. 

 COMMON LOOSESTRIFE. Lysimachia vulgaris. 



Plate 2, fig. 17. 



Leaves lanceolate, nearly sessile. Flowers in terminal clusters. 

 A noble, showy, upright plant, that adorns the banks of 

 rivers, growing three or four feet high, and bearing at the top 

 of all the stems and branches large panicles of fine yellow 

 flowers. The leaves are smooth, lanceolate, two and sometimes 

 three or four together. 



WOOD LOOSESTRIFE OR YELLOW PIMPERNEL. L. nemorum. 



Plate 2, fig. 18. 



Leaves ovate, sharp. Stem creeping. Calyx segments narrow. 

 Common in woods, creeping on the damp ground, and 

 flowering all the summer months. The corollas are large, yel- 

 low, on long stalks, rising from the axils of the leaves. The 

 five divisions of the calyx are narrow and sharp pointed, and 

 the capsules when ripe are twisted towards the earth, as they are 

 in the Scarlet Pimpernel hence one of its names. 



CREEPING LOOSESTRIFE, OR MONEY-WORT. L. nummularia. 



Plate 2, fig. 19. 

 Leaves roundish, blunt. Stem creeping. Calyx segments broad. 



Frequent not only in damp woods, but on garden rock- work, 

 where it grows very rapidly, and being in flower from June to 

 September, it is a great ornament to such places. It differs 

 from the last species in the divisions of the calyx, which are 

 here much broader. The stem is also thicker those bearing 

 the solitary flowers do not twist round, as in the other, when 

 the capsule is ripening. The leaves are rounder and blunter, 

 so much so that the present plant is called Moneywort, and as 

 these leaves are opposite, or two together, it has the name of 

 Herb Two-pence, or Two-penny Grass. 



O. S. Tufted Looseestrife, which is very rare in England. 



