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the ftalks and their branches: they are large, and 
placed diftin& 5 they confift each of a fingle petal, 
divided into five fegments in the manner of the 
common yellow kind, and are of a beautiful red. 
The feed-veffel is fmall and round. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ephenerum Matbiol. 
2. Spotted yellow Loofe Strife: 
Lyfimachia flava pedunculis unifloris, 
The root is long, flender, jointed, and creep- 
ing. 
Fhe ftalk is round, firm, upright, fmooth, 
and two feet high. 
The leaves are long and narrow ; their broadeft 
part is in the middle: they are fharp pointed, 
and undivided at the edges, and have no foot- 
ftalks. They ftand irrégularly ; on fome parts of 
the ftalk fingly; and on others four at a joint. 
. Their colour is a deep green,-and they are com- 
thonly fpotted on the back. ' 
The flowers are large, beautiful, and yellow : 
they ftand on fhort footftalks rifing from the bo- 
foms of the leaves, one flower on each. 
The feed-veffel is roundifh, but fomewhat ob- 
long. 
It is frequent in'Flanders, and in fome parts of 
Italy. It fowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lyfimachia lutea minor foliis 
nigris punctis notatis. Clufius, Lyfimachia lutea fe- 
canda. : 
Loofe frife has the credit of being an excellent 
vulnerary ; but it is not regarded in the prefent 
practice. 3 
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MONEYWORT,: 
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VI. 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and is divided into five fegiments: the feed-veffel is large 
and round, and the ftalks are weak and trailing. 
‘Linnzeus places this among his peniandria monogynia, the threads in each fower being five in num 
ber, and the rudiment of the capfule fingle. But he does not allow this a diftin& genus ; he makes 
it the fame with lyfimachia, and calls its fpecies by that name; 
We are averfe to abolifhing received and eftablifhed names, becaufe we would render the ftudy 
of botany familiar, not load it with difficulties: therefore we have feparated thefe plants, retained 
the name zummularia, and eftablifhed it as a genus. It is true, that the flowers of this plant, and thofe 
of lyfimachia are of a like ftructure; but all the fpecies of lyfimachia are ere&t and tall, and all thofe 
of nummularia weak, low, and trailing. This is an obvious, and, for all ufeful purpofes, a fuffi- 
cient diftinction. 
Dal Va 1cSelcOsNe I: 
1. Yellow Moneywort. 
Nummutlaria flore flavo. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. ’ 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, round, 
weak, and trailing: they naturally lie upon the 
ground, and fpread every way; and they are 
fimple, and not branched. 
The leaves are very beautiful in fhape and dif- 
pofition: they ftand two at a. joint, and grow 
flatwife, and the diftances between them are 
{mall ,; fo that as the plant lies {pread on the 
ground, they make a very beautiful appearance : 
they are neatly round in fhape, and of a fine 
frefh green colour. The plant had its name from 
their refembling pieces of money. 
The flowers are large, and of a fine gold yel- 
low: they ftand on fingle footftalks rifing from 
the bofoms of the leaves almoft the whole length 
of the plant. 
The feed-veffels are round and large. 
Tt is common in meadows, and flowers in 
June. A 
C, Bauhine calls it Nummularia major lutea. 
Others, Nummularia vulgaris. We, Moueywort, 
and Pennywort, or Herb twopence. 
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2. Purple Moneywort. 
Nummularia flore purpurafcente. 
This is a fmall, but very pretty plant. 
The root is long, and furnifhed with nume- 
rous tough fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, weak, 
crooked, and fpreading: they lie upon the fur- 
face, or rife very little, and very irregularly 
from it. 
The leaves are fmall, roundifh, but a little 
pointed, of a frefh green, and placed in pairs on 
fhort footftalks. 
The flowers are moderately large, and of a 
beautiful red: they ftand fingly on long and 
very flender footftalks rifing from the bofoms of 
the leaves, and are divided into five fegments, fo 
deeply that they feem compofed of fo many 
petals. 
The feed-veffel is fmall and oval; the feeds 
are numerous, and very fmall. 
It is not uncommon in boggy places, and 
flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nummularia minor flore pur- 
purafcente, J. Bauhine, Nummularia rubra, 
Ss 3. Money- 
