104 

 trif'oliata, 



racemosa. 



PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



1. M. leaves ternate, alternate, with sheathing pe- 

 tioles. 



Icon. Eng. Bot. 495. Fl. Dan. 541. Lamarck 

 illustr. t. 100. f. 1. Woodville's Med. Bot. vol. l.t.2. 



Three-leaved Buck or Bog-bean* Marsh- trefoil. 



The only species of its genus, and a very elegant plant. It 

 is not very common in any part of the United States. The 

 leaves are of an apple-green, and the flowers rose red. It 

 is possessed of strong medicinal virtues, being bitter and su- 

 dorific, and was formerly much esteemed. Woodville. 



97. LISIMACHIA, Gen.pl. 269. ( LisimachU '. ) 



Calix 5 -cleft. Corolla rotate, 5-cleft. Stigma 

 1. Capsule 1-celled, globular, mucronate, 

 5 or 10-valved, few or manv-seeded. — JVutt. 



1. L. very smooth ; leaves oval-lanceolate, opposite, 

 dotted, raceme terminal, long, loose ; segments of 

 the corolla oblong-oval. — Mich, and Pur sh. 



L. racemosa, Lamarck. 



L. vulgaris, Walt. 



L. stricta, Hort. Kew. 



L. bulbifera, Curt. Bot. Mag. 



Icon. Bot. Mag. 104. Pluk. aim. t. 428. f. 4. 



Cluster flowered Loosestrife, Bulb-bearing Loose- 

 strife. 



A beautiful plant, From one to two feet high, bearing a pro- 

 fusion of fine 3'ellow flowers, in a lax terminal raceme. It 

 occasionally bears red ovate hulbs in the axils of the leaves 

 and small branches. In boggy and low meadow grounds, and 

 on the margins of streams of water, common. 1 have every 

 year, for four successive years, found bulb-bearing specimens 

 in the boggy grounds of the Woodlands. Mr- Collins informs 

 ine he has seen the bulbs of specimens from Jersey, near an 

 inch long. Perennial. July. 



quadftfoiia. 2. L. leaves subsessile, in fours and fives-, acumi- 

 nate, dotted ; peduncles in fours, one-flowered ; 

 divisions of the corolla oval, entire. — Willd. and 

 Pursh. 



