YELLOW LOOSE-STKIFE. 



Lysimachia vulgaris. Nat. Ord., 

 Primwlacete. 



E have already, a few pages back, 

 made the acquaintance of a plant 

 of very similar name, the purple 

 loose-strife, or Lythrum salicaria, 

 but we may here repeat that, except 

 in the habitat in which both are 

 found and the verbal similitude, 

 there are no points in common in 

 the two plants : they are widely 

 separated botanically. The yellow 

 loose-strife is found growing in 

 moist hedgerows and by the sides 

 of streams and water-courses ; and 

 the height to which it attains and 

 the brilliant yellow of its flowers 

 tend to make it conspicuous 

 amongst the herbage, rank and 

 lush as that ordinarily is, that 



surrounds it. Like the purple loose-strife, fond as both are 

 of the water-side, it may be transferred to the garden if 

 the soil be somewhat moist, and it will grow and thrive 

 in its new quarters. Those of our readers who are so 

 fortunate as to have a stream running by or through 

 their grounds, or a piece of water therein, would find a 





