498 PRIMULACEAE 



4. Lysimachia [Tourn.] L. 



Leaves verticillate in 3's— 7's, or some of them opposite. 



Corolla rotate-campanulate, pure-yellow, 1-2.5 cm - broad. 



Flowers in terminal panicles; corolla-lobes glabrous. T. L. vulgaris. 



Flowers axillary; corolla-lobes glandular ciliate. 2. L. punctata. 



Corolla rotate, 0.8-1.6 cm. broad, its lobes dark streaked. 3. L. quadrifolia. 



Leaves opposite or some of them rarely alternate, sometimes ver- 

 ticillate in No. 5. 

 Flowers in a terminal virgate raceme; stem erect. 



Raceme leafy only at the base. 4. L. terrestris. 



Raceme leafy to the middle or beyond. 5. L. producta. 



Flowers axillary, solitary; stem creeping. 6. L. Nummuiaria. 



i. L. vulgaris L. In fields and along roadsides: Me. to X. V. 

 and Penn. Naturalized from Europe. 



A rare and scarcely established adventive in parts of our range. 



2. L. punctata L. In waste places: N. S. to N. J. Adventive 



from Europe. 



A rare and infrequent adventive in parts of our range. 



3. L. quadrifolia L. In thickets: N. B. to Minn., Ga. and Wise. 



Throughout the range, but rare and perhaps only intrusive in 

 the pine-barrens, increasing northward. 



4. L. terrestris (L.) B. S. P. In swamps and moist thickets, 



sometimes on gravelly shores: Newf., Man., Ga. and Ark. 

 Common throughout the range. 



5. L. producta (A. Gray) Fernald. In swamps and along road- 



sides: Me. to N. Y., Mass. and Mich. 



Conn. Rare and local near the coast, unknown elsewhere. 



N. Y. On L. I. and S. I. and up the Hudson Valley to Putnam 



Co., unknown northward; nowhere common. 

 N. J. Passaic, Essex and Union counties, not very common; 



decreasing and scattered in Middlesex, Monmouth and Burlington 



counties; unknown in the pine-barrens. 



A rare and localspecies whose distribution is little undentccd 

 Supposed by some to be a hybrid between quadrifolia and terrestris. 



6. L. Nummuiaria L. In moist places: Newf. to N. J., Pa. and 



Ind. Naturalized from Europe. 

 Locally abundant as a naturalized weed, often wanting. 



5. Naumburgia Moench. 

 1. N. thyrsiflora (L.) Duby. In swamps: N. S. to Alask., N. Y., 

 Pa , Mo. and Ore. Also in Europe and Asia. 



