54 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Anagallis. 



This plant vies in beauty with many of the most admired 

 exotics. 



LYSIMA'CHIA.' Loosestrife. 



* Siaiks many-jlowered. 



L. vulgaris. Great Yellow Loosestrife. Clusters pani- 

 cled, terminal. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, acute. E. 

 B. 761. C. fas. 5. 19. L. lutea. G. E. 474. 



Watery, shady places, reedy margins of rivers. Lane going to 

 Binsey. Southleigh Meadows, Otmoor. Sb. Side of the 

 Botley Road. Long Meadow, between Oxford and Iffley. Bx. 



Per. July. 



Stems three or four feet, panicled at the top. Ls. shortly stalked, 

 mostly opposite, or three or four in a whorl. Fl. panicles 

 large, handsome, yellow, axillary, and terminal. Each partial 

 fl. stalk bracteated. Stam. monadelphous. Cal. and Cor. some- 

 times in six divisions. 



* * Stalks single-flowered. 



L. nemorum. Wood Loosestrife. Yellow Pimpernel. 

 Leaves egg-shaped, acute. Flowers solitary. Stem 

 trailing. Stamens smooth. E. B. 527. C. fas. 5. 18. 

 AnagalUs lutea. G. E. 6I8. 



Moist woods, shady, rather watery places. Stow Wood. Stoken- 



church Woods. Sb. Shotover Hill. Headington Wick Copse. 



Bx. 

 Per. June. 

 Stems branched, with somewhat creeping roots, square, red, Ls. 



opposite, stalked. Whole plant smooth. Fl. stalks long. Cor. 



yellow, large. Cal. awl-shaped. An elegant plant. 



L. JVummuldria. Creeping Loosestrife. Money-wort^ 

 or Herb- Twopence. Leaves somewhat heart-shaped. 

 Flowers solitary. Stem prostrate, creeping. Stamens 

 glandular. E. B. 528. C. fas. 3. 14. Nummu- 

 laria. G. E. 630. 



Wet meadows, boggy pastures, borders of rivulets. 



Per. June. 



Stems four-cornered, but compressed. Ls. rounder than in Lys. 

 nemorum. Fl. pale-lemon, large, clothed with small glands on 

 footstalks, as the stamens also. Cal. segments pointed, egg- 

 shaped. 



ANAGALLIS. Pimpernel. 

 A. arvensis. Common Scarlet Pimpernel. Leaves e%g- 



' Named after Lysimachus, king of Thrace. Pl\n. 



