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OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Epilobium. 213 



many places in the south of Scotland. Hooker. On a rising 

 ground, beyond the Robin Hood inn^ in the road to Kingston- 

 upon-Thames. 



Perennial. July, Jugust. 



Root cree|)ing, fleshy, with numerous buds. Stems from 3 to 6 

 feet high, erect, roundish, leafy, smooth, reddish, seldom branched, 

 Leaves scattered, numerous, nearly sessile, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, various in breadth, entire, or slightly toothed, smooth, 

 veiny, single-ribbed ; glaucous beneath. FL crimson, inodorous, 

 very handsome, numerous, in long, terminal, upright clusters, 

 with a small linear bractea under each jiartial stalk. Germens 

 hoary, purplisli on the upper side. Stam. and style bent down- 

 wards. Pollen blue. 



A very ornamental flower, common in gardens, where it in- 

 creases but too rapidly ; thriving, like many mountain plants, 

 even in the smoky air of London. There is a white variety. 

 Bauhin's n. 7, L. Chamcenerion dicta angustijolia, usually taken 

 to be this plant, seems, from some of his synonyms, what is now 

 named E. angustisswium, which is likewise his n. 8. 



** Flowers regular. Stigma deeply ^-cleft. 



2. E. hirsiitum. Great Hairy Wiliow-heib. Cod- 

 lings and Cream. 



Leaves half clasping the stem, ovate-lanceolate, hairy. Stem 

 copiously branched. Root creeping. 



E. hirsutum. Linn. Sp. PL 494. Willd. v. 2. 315. H. Br, 410. 



Engl. Bot. V. 12. i. 838. Curt. Lond. fuse. 2. t.2\. Hook. 



Scot.l\7. Fl.Dan.t.326. 

 E. ramosum. Huds.l62. Ehrh. Herb. \ 53. 

 E. n.995, a. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 425. 

 Lysimachia siliquosa hirsuta, magno flore. Bauh. Pin. 245. Raii 



Syn. 311. Moris. V. 2. 270. sect. 3. ^. 11. /. 3. 

 L. siliquosa. Ger. Em. 476./. 

 L. purpurea. Fiichs. Hist. 491./. 



In watery places, ditches, and margins of rivers, among reeds, 

 coarse grasses, and willows, common. 



Perennial. July. 



Root creeping extensively. Whole herb downy, soft, and clammy, 

 exhaling a peculiar acidulous scent, justly compared to the fla- 

 vour of boiled codlings and cream. Stems 4 feet, or more, in 

 height, round, leafy, branched and bushy. Lower leaves oppo- 

 site, clasping the stem, or in some measure decurrent ; upper 

 alternate, and merely sessile ; all toothed. Ft. in leafy corym- 

 bose clusters, large, of a delicate pink, with cloven regular 

 petals, and erect stamens and style. Germen downy, very long. 



