PRIMROSE FAlllI,')' 



U'mter- 



Loosash-i/c, '^'cU(yiu rimpernci). 



Tt often drapes wet laanks very gracefully, and is much planted 

 on rockeries. Its leaves sometimes turn 

 rose-pink in autumn. Fl. June — jLily. 

 Perennial. 



6. L. veinoruDi (Yellow Pimpernel, 

 'Wood Loosestrife). — A verv graceful plant, 

 approaching the Scarlet Pimpernel in 

 habit, but somewhat larger and more 

 glossy ; stem spreading, often reddish ; 

 leaves opposite, shortly stalked, ovate, 

 acute ; fioicers soHtary, on ^"ery slender, 

 axillary peduncles, bright yellow, star-like 

 and very pretty, from ~j — | in. across. — 

 Shady woods ; common. — Fi. >Iay — 

 August. Perennial. 



5. TRiExriLLi (Chickweed 

 green). — Glabrous plants 

 with slender, creeping f/n- 

 zoiiics ; erect, unbranched 

 sleins, a single whorl of 5 

 or 6 leaves, and a few white 

 flowers on slender pedun- 

 cles ; calyx 5 -^ 9-cIeft ; 

 corolla rotate ; stamens 

 5 — 9 ; capsule opening with 

 5 revolute valves. (Xame 

 of doubtful etymology.) 



I. T. eiiropi'ea (Chick- 

 weed ^^'inter-green). — The 

 only European species, and 

 the only British plant re- 

 ferred to the Linnean Class 

 Heptandria, though the 

 stamens are not invariably 

 7 in number. It grows 

 4 — 6 in. high, has large, 

 obovate leaves and delicate 

 white flowers. — \\'oods from 

 Yorkshire and Lancashire 

 northwards. — Fl. June, 

 July. P'erennial. 



6. GL-4t:-.x (Sea- :Milk- 

 wort), containing only one species, G. maritima, a small, glabrous, 



Y 



GL.\U.\' M.\RITIMA (Sca Milhl^ 



rt). 



