2 Lysimachia racemosa. 



Plant from eighteen inches to two and a half feet high ; very 

 smooth. Root perennial, fibrous. Leaves yellowish-green, lanceo- 

 late, and oval-lanceolate, very entire, opposite, finely dotted with 

 black specks. Flowers numerous, from twenty to thirty-five, in a 

 long, pyramidal, loose, terminal raceme ; sometimes verticillated, 

 often alternate. Corolla bright yellow, rotate. Petals five, very rare- 

 ly six, oblong-lanceolate, somewhat twisted, forming at their junc- 

 ture with the calyx a white central spot, circumscribed exteriorly to 

 the origin of the stamens, with red dots. Pedicels one-flowered, 

 slender, about a quarter or half an inch long. Flower-buds yellow, 

 tipped with carmine-red. Calix, five linear-lanceolate, acute seg- 

 ments. Bracts lanceolate. Lower flowers appearing first, and the 

 raceme becoming elongated during the progress of inflorescence. 

 Often viviparous, bearing narrow, sometimes ovate, red bulbs in the 

 axills of the leaves, about a quarter of an inch, and from that to near 

 an inch in length. Inhabits the margins of ditches and meadow- 

 drains ; low, wet, grassy meadows, and, generally places contiguous 

 to water, from Canada to Virginia. Flowers in July and August. 



The plant here figured is one of the prettiest of the American 

 species of the genus to which it belongs. It is a showy ornament of 

 the sites enumerated as its resort, and differs so much according to 

 the congeniality or un favourableness of the soil in which it grows, 

 that it appears to be well worth cultivation. Delighting in moisture, 

 being quite hardy, and bearing transplantation well, there would ap- 



