LYSIMACHIA 



PBIMBOSE OBDEB 



LYSIMACHIA 629 



lary or terminal, solitary, racemose, or in 

 simple corymbose umbels, or panicled 

 racemes, white, yellow, or rosy, rarely 

 purple or blue. Calyx 5-6-parted. Corolla 

 hypogynous, funnel-shaped or rotate, 

 5-parted, with a short or very short tube ; 

 lobes 5-6, erect or spreading, entire or 

 toothed, twisted. Stamens 5-6, attached 

 to the coroUa tube, sometimes alter- 

 nating with a like number of staminodes ; 

 filaments downy or naked, free or united. 

 -Ovary superior, round or ovoid. Capsule 

 few- or many-seeded. 



Oulhore and Propagation. — fjysima- 

 ohias are usually easily grown in ordinary 

 garden soil, preferring moist situations, 

 some enjoying the edges of ponds or 

 streams, but most of them useful for the 

 flower border. They may be increased 

 by division in autumn or early spring, or 

 by seeds. The latter may be sown when 

 ripe in cold frames, or in warm and shel- 

 tered parts of the garden, not scorched by 

 the sun, and the seedlings may be trans- 

 planted the following spring. Increase 

 by division, however, is so easy with most 

 .of the kinds that it is scarcely necessary to 

 raise such from seed unless large numbers 

 of plants are required. 



L. atropurpurea {Luhmia atropur- 

 purea). — An erect-grovdng species about 

 2 ft. high, native of S. Europe, with 

 smooth fleshy obovate leaves. Mowers 

 ,in summer, deep dark purple, inelegantly 

 drooping racemes. 



Culture lie. as above. 



L. barystachys. — A pretty erect grow- 

 ing Chinese species with lance-shaped 

 leaves. Flowers in summer, white, small, 

 in dense erect crowded racemes. 



Culture dtc. as above. 



L. ciliata. — A N. American species 

 ,2-3 ft. high. Leaves lance-shaped ovate, 

 3-6 in. long, tapering to a sharp point, 

 rounded or lobed at the base, all on long 

 .fringed stalks. Flowers in July, light 

 yellow. 



Culture dc. as above. 



L. clethroides. — A graceful Japanese 

 plant 2-3 ft. high, with lower leaves 

 spoon-shaped, upper ones broadly lance- 

 shaped, 3-5 in. long, smooth, shining, 

 entire. Flowers from July to September, 

 white, about ^ in. across, star-shaped, 

 crowded on dense pyramidal spikes about 

 1 ft. long, nodding at the top. Increased 

 -by division or seeds. 



Culture dc. as above. 



L. Ephemerum. — A pretty S. European 

 species 2-3 ft. high, with smooth linear 

 lance-shaped, entire, unstalked leaves of 

 a sea-green colour. Flowers in summer, 

 white, rotate in upright racemes. Stamens 

 projecting. 



Culture <ic. as above. Deep light soil 

 with eastern or western aspect. Increased 

 by division in spring, or by seeds sown 

 as soon as ripe. 



L. lanceolata. — A N. American plant 

 1-1^ ft. high, with smooth linear or 

 oblong-lance-shaped leaves. Flowers in 

 early summer, yellow, solitary, in the 

 axUs of the leaves, or drooping stalks. 

 Petals sHghtly notched. AngustifoUa 

 is a graceful variety, having long linear 

 dotted leaves, and a more branching 

 habit ; hyhrida is another form with 

 broader foliage than the type. 



Culture dc. as above. Sandy loam in 

 the border. Increased by division. 



L. Leschenaulti. — A distinct tufted 

 branching Indian species about 1 ft. high, 

 with lance-shaped acute leaves, sometimes 

 opposite or ternate, sometimes alternate. 

 Flowers in late autumn, brilliant carmine. 



Culture if-c. as above. This species is 

 rather too tender for outdoor culture 

 except in the very mildest parts of the S. 

 coast, where it may be placed in bright 

 sunny and sheltered parts of the rockery 

 in rich moist soil. 



L. nemorum {Yellow Pimpernel). — A 

 pretty trailing British plant with slender 

 stems 3-12 in. long, and shortly stalked 

 ovate acute leaves 1-2 in. long. Flowers 

 from May to July, rotate, yellow, slightly 

 toothed, solitary. 



Culture d-c. as above. Suitable for the 

 rockery or for rambling over banks. It 

 likes sandy loam and peat with leaf 

 mould and a northern or western aspect. 

 Increased like L. Ntotnmularia. 



L. Nummularia {Creeping Jenny; 

 Moneywort). — Although a native of 

 England— but not Scotland or Ireland — 

 being found in moist shaded places, the 

 common Creeping Jenny is the best 

 known and most generally cultivated 

 species of the genus. It is a handsome 

 creeping perennial with slender graceful 

 4-angled stems 2-3 ft. or more long, 

 closely covered with opposite bright 

 shining green roundish and somewhat 

 wrinkled leaves. Flowers in June and 

 July and later, 1 in. or so across, bright- 



