DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. Q75 
number of other species and varieties, which are beautiful, 
but not yet in general cultivation. 
Lychnis coron4ria.—Rose Campion or Mullien Pink, 
is a common showy border-flower; not a perfect peren- 
nial, but can be kept by dividing the roots when large. 
It is also easily propagated from seed, which flowers the 
second year. The common variety has deep-red flowers, 
another with white, and still another with white with a 
rose center; one and one-half foot high; in flower in 
June.and July. 
L. Flos-Jovis, is another perennial variety with smaller 
red flowers in umbels, with soft downy leaves; one and 
one-half foot high. Z. ceeli-rosa is an annual, with rose- 
colored flowers, very pretty, but not showy ; one foot high. 
LYSIMACHIA,.—Looss-Strirs. 
[Name said to be in honor of King Lysimachus.1 
Lysimachia nummuléria.— Moneywort.—Is an orna- 
mental creeping perennial, with yellow flowers all the 
season, suitable for rock-work, or hanging from a pot in a 
northern exposure; a number of the indigenous species 
are worth cultivating. 
LYTHRUM.—Wu.1ow-Hers. 
{From the Greek for blood, in allusion to the flowers.] 
Lythrum salicaria.—Is a British perennial, and is con- 
sidered a handsome border-flower; three or four feet 
high, with purple flowers in July and August; leaves op- 
posite, cordate, lanceolate; flowers in spikes. 
L, réseum supérbum.—This is a hardy perennial, and 
a great improvement over Z. salicaria. The plant is from 
