Lysimachia Nummularis Moneywort, 



LYSIMACHIA Linnai, Gen. PL Pentandria Monogynia. 



Cor. rotata. Caps, globofa, mucronata, io-valvis. 

 KaiiSyn.Gen. 18. Herbje fructu sicco singulari flore monofetalo. 



LYSIMACHIA Nummularis foliis fubcordatis, floribus folitariis, caule repente. Lin. Syfi. Feget. p. 165. 

 Sp. PL p. 211. FL Suede, p. 63. 



LYSIMACHIA caule proftrato, foliis fubrotundis, petiolis alaribus unifloris. Hatter, Hjfi. Helv. n. 620, 



LYSIMACHIA Nummularia. Scopott. FL Carniol. n. 216. 



NUMMULARIA major lutea. Bauhin. Pin. 309, 



NUMMULARIA. Gerard, emac. 630. 



NUMMULARIA vulgaris. Parkin/on. $55. 



Raii. Synop. p. 283, Moneywort, or Herb Two-pence. 

 Oeder. Flor. Dan. Ic. 493. 

 Hudfion. FL Angl. ed. 2. p. 87. 

 Lightfoot. FL Scot. p. 138« 



RADIX perennis, fibrofa, fibris fimplicibus, defcen- t ROOT perennial and fibrous, the fibres fimple, and 



dentibus. | ftriking downward. 



CAULES plures, fimplices, procumbentes, verfus a- | STALKS numerous, fimple, trailing, towards the top 



picem repentes et fubramofi, pedales et ul- | creeping and fomewhat branched, a foot or 



tra, laeves, geniculati, utrinque profunde ca- % more in length, fmooth, jointed, deeply 



naliculati, five tetragoni. | channeled on each fide, or four cornered, 



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FOLIA ovato-orbiculata, oppofita, erecta, glabra, fub- t LEAVES of a fhape betwixt ovate and round, oppoflte, 



venofa, parum undulata, petiolis brevibus, | upright, fmooth, fomewhat veiny, and a lit— 



latis, decurrentibus, infidentia, t tie waved, fitting on fhort broad foot-italks, 



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which run down the main ftalk. 



PEDUNCULI plerumque bini, oppofiti, ere£ti, longi- ? FLOWER-STALKS growing generally two together, 



tudine foliorum, angulati, verfus apicem fen- | one oppofite the other, upright, the length 



fim incraffati- $ of the leaves, angular, gradually enlarged to- 



t wards the end. 



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FLORES lutei, majufculi, fubrotati. ¥ FLOWERS yellow, large in proportion to the leaves, 



I and fomewhat wheel-fhaped, 



CALYX: Perianthium pentaphyllum, foliolis cor- i CALYX : a Perianthium of five leaves, heart-fhaped 



dato-acutis, erectis, fubcarinatis, marginibus, | and pointed, fomewhat keeled, the edges at 



bafi reflexis, Jig. 1 . % bottom turning back, fig. 1 . 



COROLLA quinquepartita, laciniis ovatis, acutis, | COROLLA deeply divided into five fegments, which 



patentibus, calyce duplo longioribus, fubero- t are oval, pointed, and twice the length of the 



fis, margine glandulofa, adhibito microfcopio, | calyx, flightly jagged and glandular on the 



fin-, 2. ¥ edge, if viewed with a microfcope, fig. 2. 



STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, fubulata, eredla, | STAMINA: five Filaments, tapering, upright, 



glandulofa, corolla breviora ; Anthers fa- % glandular, and fhorter than the corolla : An- 



gittatas, fig. 3, 4. I THERiE arrow-fhaped, fig. 3, 4. 



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PISTILLUM: Germen fubrotundum : Stylus fiii- | PISTILLUM: Germen nearly round : Style thread- 



formis, ftaminibus paulo longior, nudus : | fhaped, a little longer than the ftamina : 



Stigma parvum, obtufum, fig. 5, 6. % Stigma fmall and blunt, fig. 5, 6.' 



PERICARPIUM plerumque abortat. \ SEED-VESSEL rarely comes to perfection, 



IT often happens that thofe plants which increafe much while in flower, either by their roots or ftalks, 



The name of Moneywort, has been given to this fpecies from the roundnefs of its leaves, by which it is in one 

 inftance, diftinguifhed from the L)fimachia nemorum. It grows in meadows, particularly on the^edges of the ditches; 

 alfo under hedges in moift fituations ; and is too common to need any particular place of its growth to be pointed out. 



In a moift fituation, no plant thrives more in a garden, nor with lefs trouble : it^ continues a long while in 

 bloflbm : but without this advantage, the beauty and fingularity of its foliage, is fufficient to recommend it. 



Thetafte of the leaves is fubaftringent, and very flightly acid ; hence they Jtand recommended by Boerhave 

 in the hot fcurvy, and in uterine and other haemorrhages. But their effects are ib inconfiderable, that common 

 practice takes no notice of them. Lewis's Difp. p. 184. 



It is eaten by Kine and Sheep, not much relilhed by Goats, and refufed by Horfes. Lin. Amatn. Acad. Pan. Suec. 



