Lysimachia.] primulaceje. 401 



lanceolate, the lower ones narrower, flowers in a terminal leafy 

 panicle, stem erect." — Br. Fl. p. 333. E. B. t. 761. 



In wet meadows, thickets and osier-beds, on ditchbanks and edges of ponds and 

 rivers, in many places abundantly. Fl. July, August. Fr. September, Octo- 

 ber. 2^. 

 ^ E. Med. — In various parts of Sundown level, as in the marsh-ditches between 

 Yavbridge and Yaverland, and on the skirts of Lake common. Abundant in 

 swampy thickets higher up towards Newchurch, in Alverston lynch, Borthwood 

 lynch, and all that neighbourhood. Abundantly in Horringford withy-bed. By 

 the roadside (the new cut) between Wootton parsonage and Palmers Brook. By 

 the streani-side near Bow bridge, Godshill. Very fine and profusely in a willow 

 copse a little E.S.E. of Bagwich farm, by the brook between that place and Gods- 

 hill. Abundant in a willow thicket near Stone (the var, with fulvous base to the 

 corolla). Willow thickets by Budbridge farm, in plenty (the unspotted var.) In 

 the centre of the pool in Marshcombe copse. Willow thicket between Messley 

 farm and Langbridge. Pan moor, G. Kirkpatrick, Eiq. Marsh near Easton, 



W. Med. — In Kingston copse, plentifully. 



Root creeping, and throwing out white runners to the length of many feet or 

 even yards in ponds and ditches, whereby it increases fast. Stem erect, 2 — 4 feet 

 high, simple or much and oppositely branched, bluntly angular, furrowed and 

 downy with fine soft pubescence, excepting near the base, where it is glabrous, 

 with usually a reddish tinge, and bare of leaves to a considerable distance 

 upwards. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, 4, or even 6 around the stem, very 

 shortly petiolate, extremely variable in size and shape, lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate, 

 the lowermost narrower and even linear, dull green, veiny, more or less downy on 

 both sides, subtomentose beneath, their edges waved and obscurely undulato-cre- 

 nate, olten bordered with a row of reddish pellucid dots that are sometimes found 

 scattered over the whole leaf, but, like the marginal ones, are at other times very 

 few or wanting, though common, I believe, to most species of the genus. Flowers 

 in leafy corymbose clusters terminating the stem and branches, forming a mostly 

 pyramidal panicle, large, golden yellow, very handsome, on long, erect, hairy 

 pedicels, having a linear suberect hract at the base of each. Sepals ovato-lan- 

 ceolate, acute, with several (about 5) pellucid nerves and an orange-red border, 

 their margins ciliato-glandulose. Corolla sprinkled with mealy glands, glabrous 

 at the back, its segments ovate, bluntish, quite entire, neither notched nor fringed, 

 becoming revolute soon after the plant is gathered, often fulvous within at the 

 base. iStonens 6, all equal, short, erect, densely glanduloso-pilose, their broad, 

 dilated, often bright red filaments perfectly united for half their length into a 

 short wide tube without intermediate teeth (abortive stamens); anthers erect, 

 triangulari-sagittate, with a minute point, pale yellow, sometimes streaked with 

 orange. Style longer than the stamens, slightly hairy and angular; stigma sim- 

 ple, greenish. Oermen conical, with 6 lines or furrows, quite smooth. Capsule 

 smooth, globose, tipped with the style, reddish or yellowish, glabrous or slif;htly 

 pubescent at the summit, 5 — 10 valved? not always perfected. Seeds rather 

 numerous, white, cream-coloured or reddish, of an earthy porous aspect, gibbous 

 and angular, the angles bordered. 



In very shady wet thickets the leaves are sometimes deep green, shining and 

 glabrous above, and the whole plant extremely luxuriant; in this .state I have 

 gathered it between Apse and Ninham above 6 feet in height. The beautiful 

 variety with the base of the corolla fulvous, and red or orange-coloured stamens, 

 is frequent on the Wilderness, where seeds are ripened by this species in abuiir 

 dance. 



The seeds have a thick mealy covering (testa ?), of a white or reddish colour, 

 like chalk or clay in appearance, and friable as those substances. 



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