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PRIMULACE^E 



globular, turnip-like, brown corm, and nodding pink flowers with 

 reflexed petals. The leaves are produced after the flowers. As 

 the fruit ripens, the flower-stalk curls spirally and buries it in the 

 earth. The corm is intensely acrid. — Woods in Kent, Sussex, 

 and Surrey. — Fl. August, September. Perennial. 



4. Lysimachia (Loosestrife). — Plants of various habit with 

 entire, cauline leaves; calyx 5 — 6-cleft to the base; corolla rotate 



or cup-shaped, yellow in British 

 species; capsule generally 5-valved. 

 (Name in Greek having the same 

 meaning as the English name.) 



1. L. thyrsiflora (Tufted Loose- 

 strife). — A stout, glabrous, erect 

 plant with runners, unbranched 

 above ; leaves opposite, sessile, 

 lanceolate ; flowers small, numer- 

 ous, in dense, stalked, axillary 

 racemes, yellow, dotted with 

 orange. — Marshes, mostly in the 

 north ; rare. — Fl. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



2. L. vulgaris (Great Yellow 

 Loosestrife). — A stout, pubescent, 

 erect, branched plant, several 

 feet high, with runners ; leaves 

 opposite, or 3—4 in a whorl, 

 sessile, ovate-lanceolate ; flowers 

 rather large, subcampanulate, 

 yellow, dotted with orange, in 

 terminal panicled cymes. — River- 

 banks ; common. — ■ Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



3.* L. punctata, a naturalised 

 exotic, is a smaller, downy plant, with fewer flowers and petals 

 fringed with glandular hairs. . 



4.* L. cilidta, an American species naturalised in Cumberland, 

 is taller and has subcordate leaves on ciliate stalks, and 5 stami- 

 nodes between the stamens. 



5. L. Nummuldria (Money-wort, Herb-twopence, Creeping 

 Jenny). — A very pretty glabrous plant, with creeping stems, often 

 more than a foot long ; leaves opposite, ovate, slightly stalked, 

 shining ; flowers rather large, cup-shaped, solitary, or in pairs in 

 the axils, yellow. — Banks of rivers and damp woods; common. 



lysimachia nummulAria {Money-wort). 



