148 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



garden once belonijing to a lodge, now pulled down, and the Lysi- 

 machia now marks the spot once occupied by the garden. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



Rootstock extensively creeping. Stem slender, 1 to 3 feet high. 

 Leaves spreadhig, distant, except at the apex of the stem, usually with 

 a jjair of small ones in their axils; lamina often subcordate at the 

 base, acummate, very acute, 2 to 4 inches long. Peduncles from the 

 axils of a few of the upper pairs of leaves, f to 2 inches long, glabrous, 

 curved at the apex : the internodes between the last few pairs of leaves 

 at the apex of the stem remain very short, and the peduncles from 

 the axils of these form a false corymb, appai-ently terminating the stem. 

 Flowers about 1 inch across, pale }'ellow. Plant light green, the leaves 

 paler beneath. 



Ciliated Loosestrife. 



SPECIES v.— LYS I MAC HI A NUMMULARIA. Linn. 



Plate MCXLI^. 



R,-;,:h. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MLXXXiV. Fig. 2, 

 Billut, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1753. 



Stems prostrate throughout, flexible, rooting at the base. Leaves 

 opposite, very shortly stalked, roundish or roundish-ovate or -oval, 

 obtuse, punctate. Flowers solitary' or in pairs in the axils of a few of 

 the leaves towards the middle of the stems ; peduncles axillary, oppo- 

 site, 1-flowered or forked from the very base, and each fork 1-flowered, 

 rather shorter than the leaves. Calyx segments ovate, cordate, acute. 

 Corolla saucersliaped, with 5 rhomboidal-oval obtuse repand ascending- 

 spreading segments, Avithout a tooth in the sinus between them, 

 sparingly dotted with yellow glands on both sides, and with a few 

 reddish points, very shortly ciliated with minute glands. Stamens 5 ; 

 iilaments thickly dotted with glands, and united at the base into a very 

 short ring. Plant glabrous. 



In damp meadows and pastures, and by the sides of ditches and 

 streams. Rather local. Generally distributed in England. Rare and 

 very doubtfully native in Scotland, Avhere it is reported to occur 

 in the counties of Dumfries, Lanark, Bermck, Roxburgh, and Forfar. 

 Tn Ireland it is doubtfully native, but the authors of the " Cybele 

 Hibernica " consider that it may be indigenous in the eastern and 

 north-cnstorn counties. 



England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Stems numerous, branched chiefly towards the base, 6 inches to 2 feet 



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