211 OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Epilobium. 



3. E. parviflorum. Small-flowered Hoary Willow- 

 herb. 



Leaves sessile, lanceolate, downy. Stem nearly simple, 

 woolly. Root fibrous. 



E. parviflorum. Sc/iret. Lips. 146. Wilh.2>&7. Fl. Br. 4\0. Engl. 



Bot. V. 1 2. t. 795. Hook. Scot. 117. 

 E. pubescens. Willd. Sp. PL v. 2. 315. 

 E. hirsutum. Huds. 161. Linn. Sp. PL 494, /3. 

 E. villosum. Curt. Land. fasc. 2. L 22. -Relli. \52. Si6//i. 121. 



Jbbot 84. Ehrh.Herb.){)4. 

 E. foliis longis dentatis villosis, flore oarvo. HaU. Enurn. 410. FL 



Dan. t. 347. 

 E. n. 995, /3. HalL Hist. v. 1. 425. 

 Lysimachia siliquosa hirsuta, parvo flore. Bauh. Pin. 245. Prodr. 



116. RaiiSyn. 3l\. Moris, v.2. 270. secl.3. t. II. f. 4. 

 L. siliquosa hirsuta, flore minore. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 906./. 



Frequent in watery places and about the banks of rivers. 



Perennial. July. 



Root fibrous. Stem about 2 feet high, either quite simple, or 

 slightly branched at the top only, round, leafy, clothed more or 

 less with a soft dense wooUiness. Leaves most of them opposite, 

 sessile, minutely toothed ; soft and downy on both sides. FL 

 but a quarter the size of the last, liglit purple, in long leafy 

 clusters. Stigma deeply 4-cleft, as in the two foregoing species 

 and the following. 



4, E. 7nontanum. Broad Smooth-leaved Willow- 

 herb. 



Leaves stalked, ovate, toothed. Stem round. Stigma in 

 four deep segments. 



E. montanum. Linn. Sp. PL 494. IVilld. v. 2. 316. FL Br.4\] : 

 EngL Bot. V. 17. t. 1177. Curt. Land. fasc. 3. i. 24. Hook. 

 ScoL 1 1 7. FL Dan. t. 922. Ehrh. Herb. 1 14. 



E. n. 996. HalL Hist. v.\. 426. 



Lysimachia siliquosa glabra major. Bauh. Pin. 24b. Moris, v.2. 

 270. sect. 3. t. 11./. 5. 



L. campestris. Ger. Em. 478./. Rail Syn. 31 J. 



In dry, shady, hilly, or stony, places ; on old walls, or cottage 

 roofs, frequent. 



Perennial. July. 



Root slightly creeping, with red shoots. Stem 1 ', or 2 feet high, 

 erect, round, leafy, smooth or minutely downy, scarcely branched, 

 usually red. Lower leaves opposite, on short stall;s, ovate, broad, 

 toothed, smooth and pliant, with hoary veins : upper alternate 



