PRIMROSE FAMILY 



ing abundantly in English fields it appears continually in English 

 poetry from, 



The primrose path that leads to the eternal bonfire, 



of Shakespeare, and. 



The rathe primrose that forsaken dies, 



of Milton, to the characterization of Peter Bell, by Wordsworth: 



A primrose by the river's brim 



A yellow primrose was to him, 



And it was nothing more. 



LYSIMACHIA. GOLDEN LOOSESTRIFE 



Lysimhchia vulgaris. 



Supposed to be named in honor of King Lysimachus. 



An old-time garden plant no longer prized, but found in fields and 

 along roadsides in New England and the Middle States. Naturalized 

 from Europe. Perennial. June to August. 



Stem. — Erect, two to three feet highj branched above, downy. 

 Leaves. — Verticillate, three or four in a whorl, ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 at both ends. 

 Flowers. — Yellow, borne in ample terminal, leafy panicles. 

 Calyx. — Five-parted, often red-margined. 

 Corolla. — Rotate, five-lobed. 

 Stamens. — Five, inserted on corolla. 

 Ovary. — One-celled; style and stigma one. 

 Capsule. — Many-seeded. 



This old-time flower has given place to later comers, but as one" 

 sees it now and then in a New England yard, or a clump in full 

 flower standing by the roadside, the effect is good. However 

 it is weedy — perhaps all the Lysimachia are weedy. 



The Whorled Loosestrife, Lysimachia quadrijblia, native to 

 any soil in the eastern United States, is sometimes transferred to 



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