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It often drapes wet banks very gracefully, and is much planted 

 on rockeries. Its leaves sometimes turn 

 rose-pink in autumn. Fl. June — July. 

 Perennial. 



6. L. nemorum (Yellow Pimpernel, 

 Wood Loosestrife). — A very graceful plant, 

 approaching the Scarlet Pimpernel in 

 habit, but somewhat larger and more 

 glossy ; stem spreading, often reddish ; 

 leaves opposite, shortly stalked, ovate, 

 acute ; flowers solitary, on very slender, 

 axillary peduncles, bright yellow, star-like 

 and very pretty, from 5— f in. across. — 

 Shady woods ; common. — Fl. May — 

 August. Perennial. 



5. Trientalis (Chickweed Winter- L 

 green). — Glabrous plants 

 with slender, creeping rhi- 

 zomes ; erect, unbranched 

 stems, a single whorl of 5 

 or 6 leaves, and a few white 

 flowers on slender pedun- 

 cles ; calyx 5 — 9-cleft ; 

 corolla rotate ; stamens 

 5 — 9 ; capsule opening with 

 5 revolute valves. (Name 

 of doubtful etymology.) 



1. T. euro-pka (Chick- 

 weed Winter-green). — The 

 only European species, and 

 the only British plant re- 

 ferred to the Linnean Class 

 Heptandria, though the 

 stamens are not invariably 

 7 in number. It grows 

 4 — 6 in. high, has large, 

 obovate leaves and delicate 

 white flowers. — Woods from 

 Yorkshire and Lancashire 

 northwards. — Fl. June, 

 July. Perennial. 



6. Glaux (Sea - Milk- 

 wort), containing only one species, G. mariiimd, a small, glabrous 



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gla6x maritima (Sea Milkwort). 



