'Lysimdchia.'\ 



LXVI. PRIMULACEyE 



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On a bank at Bramfield, Suffolk ; near Sandhurst (in profusion), 

 ^nd Gouldhurst, Kent; Pembroke; Notts (plentiful). 1^. 9. — 

 Leaves springing from the top of the large tuberous root. Cor. white 

 or flesh-coloured. Scapes spirally twisted after flowering, so as to 

 bury the seed-vessels in the earth. Probably some of the above stations 

 may belong to C, EuropcBwA, as suggested by Mr. H. Watson ; our 

 own specimens indeed are too few and imperfect to permit us to 

 ascertain correctly the species. But the whole genus is a Southern 

 and Eastern one, not even occurring in the Flora of Paris ; and none 

 of the species can have any claims to be admitted as indigenous, if 

 indeed any can properly be said to be naturalized in this country. 



4. Glatjx LintL Sea-Milkwort. 



CaL campanulate, coloured, of 1 piece, 5-lobed. Cor. none. 

 Stam. 5, glabrous. Caps, superior, globose, 5-vaIved, with about 

 5 seeds. — Xnme: yXavt^ a plant so called from its colour being 

 yXavKOi: or sea-green. 



1. G. maritinia L. (^Sea M. or black Saltwort). E. B, t. 13. 



Sea-shore and muddy salt-marshes, abundant. 1}., 6, 7.- 

 2 — 4 or 5 inches long, stout, branched, often procumbent, 

 opposite, ovate, glabrous, fleshy, entire, sessile, small. Flowers sessile^ 

 solitary, axillary, rose-coloured, with 5 obtuse, spreading lobes. • 



5, Trienxalts Rttpp. Chickweed Winter-green. 



CaL about 7- (5 — 9-) partite. Cor. rotate: tube very short ; 

 li77ib of as many deep flat divisions as the calyx. Stain, as many 

 as the sepals, l3eardless. Caps, opening to the base with 5 — 9 



- Stems 

 Leaves 



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recurved fugacious valves. Seeds with a reticulated tunic. 

 Name supposed to be the same as trientalis, the third part of a 

 foot, or 4 inches, such being the usual height of the plant. 



1. T, Europce^a L. {European Chickweed P^.); leaves oblong- 

 obovate obtuse. E. B. t. 15. 



Woods in the North of England, rare, Abnndant in many parts 

 of the Highlands of Scotland. Not found in Ireland. %. 6. 



Hoot filitbrm, creeping. Stems 4 — 6 inches high, with 2 or 3 small 

 distant leaves, and 4—7 terminal whorled larger ones, from the centre 

 of which arise 1 — 4 slender single-flowered peduncles, CaL-JeaJlets 

 almost subulate, varying in number from 6 to 9, as do all the other 

 parts of the flower and the valves of the capsule. The beautiful 

 covering, like the finest white lace, of its seeds, has been taken for a 

 pericarp by botanists who had not seen the very fugacious horny 

 valves of its capsule. 



6. Lysimachia Linn. Loose-strife. 



CaL 5-partite. Cor. rotate. Stam. 5 — 6, not distinctly hairy, 

 sometinies with alternating sterile filaments. Caps. 1 -celled, 

 5 — 10-valved. — Named in honour of king Lysimachus^ accord- 



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