144 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Chester, and Cumberland. In Scotland in the counties of Lanark, _ 

 Stirling, Forfar, and Dumbarton. , ■ 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock extensively ci-eeping, emitting long stolons. Stem stout, 

 1 to 2 feet high, when growing in water emitting roots at the lower 

 nodes. Lower leaves reduced to ovate scales, becoming larger until 

 they pass into ordinary leaves. Leaves largest about the middle 

 of the stem, 2 to 4 mches long, opposite, rarely 3 or 4 in a whorl, 

 tapering towards the apex, much longer than the upper nodes. Racemes 

 produced from the axils of 2 or 3 of the pairs of leaves about or a 

 little below the middle of the stem, shortly above where the leaves 

 lose their scale-like appearance. Peduncles erect or erect-ascending, 

 rather shorter than the leaves, being (including the racemes) from 1 J- 

 to 3 inches long, the raceme itself ^ to 1^ inch long, cylindrical- 

 oblong, dense, many-flowered. Bracts strapshaped, punctate, the 

 lower ones usually shorter than the pedicels. Pedicels slender, longer 

 than the calyx, -with a few gland-tipped hairs above. Calyx truncate 

 at the base. Corolla about ^ inch long, bellshaped, nearly twice as 

 long as the calyx, ochreous-yellow, spotted with purplish black 

 Style and anthers usually exceeding the petals. Caj^isule ovoid, spotted 

 with black, half as long as the calyx. Seeds few, angulated. Plant 

 green, glabrous, the leaves glaucous beneath, and with a few woolly 

 hairs upon the midrib, and also on a few of the principal veins, thickly 

 jnmctate mth minute reddish-black dots. 



Tufted Loosestrife. 



French, Lysimaque a bouquets. German, sfratcsshliitTiiger Friedlos. 



Sub-Genus II.— LYSIMASTRUM. Duby. 



Segments of the corolla without any tooth between them. Seeds 

 smooth, more or less margined. Flowers yellow, on simple or 

 branched axillary peduncles or in a terminal panicle. Stamens in- 

 cluded. 



SPECIES n.—LY SIM ACHI A VULGARIS. Linn. 



Plate MCXLI. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVH. Tab. ilLXXXVI. Fig. 2. 

 nUlot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1928. 



Stem erect, stiff. Leaves verticillate or opposite, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, not amplexicaul, ovate or lanceolate, remotely punctate, 

 sprinkled with black dots. Flowers in a short terminal panicle, nearly 

 leafless at the apex. Peduncles axillary, mostly branched. Calyx 



