366 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 



to form a glandular tube around the somewhat globose ovary and slender 

 style. The species are distributed throughout the North Temperate zone, 

 South Africa, and Australia ; four are British. 



Principaispecies Lysimachia atropurpurea (dark purple), stems 2 



feet high. Leaves egg-shaped, fleshy. Flowers dark 

 purple in drooping racemes; July to September. Introduced from 

 Southern Europe, 1820. 



L. BARYSTACHYS (heavy spike). Stem erect. Leaves lance-shaped. 

 Flowers small, wdiite, in crowded terminal racemes. Native of Japan 

 and China ; introduced 1880. 



L. CILIATA (fringed like the eye-lid). Stem erect, 2 to 3 feet high. 

 Leaves lance-shaped, with heart-shaped base, on long fringed leaf- 

 stalks. Flowers light yellow ; July. Introduced from North America 

 1732. 



L. NuMMULARiA (Moneywort). Creeping Jenny, or Moneywort. 

 Stem creeping, long, rooting at the joints. Leaves roundish, smooth, 

 opposite. Flowers solitary, produced in the axils ; bright yellow, 1 incli 

 across; petals fringed; June to August. Native of England. 



L. VULGARIS (connnon). Yellow Loosestrife. Stems erect, branching, 

 2 to 3 feet higli. Leaves egg-shaped or lance-shaped, dotted with black 

 glands. Flowers yellow, in short panicled cymes ; dimorphic : July and 

 August. Native of Britain. 

 Cultivation. Ordinary garden soils suffice for Lysimachias provided 



they are sufficiently moist. L. Niiimnidaria is frequently 

 cultivated^ in hanging pots and window-boxes ; but as a rule sufficient 

 attention is not paid to its need of much moisture, and as a result the 

 leaves wither at the flowering time. So grown it should have abundant 

 supplies of water to the roots, and the foliage should be syringed. The 

 proper position for this plant is a moist and shady slope, where it can be 

 allowed room to spread. 



PIMPERNELS 



Natural Order Primulace^:. Genus Anarjallis 



Anagallis (the old Greek name). A genus comprising a dozen species 

 of angular-stennned annual or perennial herbs. The \vm\vs are .utiiv, 

 opposite or in whorls. Flowers solitary from the axils on long stalks, 

 which bend down after flowering. Corolla wheel-shaped or^ funnel- 

 shaped, deeply cleft into five lobes. Stamens five, attaclied to base of corolla- 



