292 THE PRIMROSE FAMILY. [ Lysimachia. 
Leaves lanceolate. Flowers in axillary racemes. Lobes of 
the corolla narrow and short. . 2. LD. thyrsifiora. 
Stems procumbent or trailing. Peduncles 1- flowered, “axillary, 
Flowers small, rotate. Calyx-segments very narrow . 4. L. nemorum. 
Flowers large, almost campanulate. Calyx-segments broad. 3. Z, nummularia. 
Besides the above, LZ. ciliata, Linn., a North American species, has been 
gathered apparently wild in Cumberland and near Dumbarton. It is an 
erect plant, like Z. vulgaris, but with fewer flowers on longer pedicels, the 
corolla more rotate and paler coloured, fringed at the edge, and the stamens 
free and spreading. 
1, &. vulgaris, Linn. (fig. 652). Common Lysimachia, Loosestrife.— 
Stem erect, branched, 2 to 3 feet high, and more or less downy. Leaves 
usually in whorls of 3 or 4, rather large, broadly lanceolate or nearly ovate. 
Flowers in skort, compound racemes, or panicles, in the upper axils and at 
the summit of the branches, forming a terminal, leafy panicle. Segments 
of the calyx lanceolate and pointed, varying much in breadth, and more or 
less ciliate on the edges. Corolla yellow, rather campanulate than rotate, 
deeply divided into 5 broad lobes. Stamens connected at the base into a cup 
enclosing the ovary. 
On shady banks, and along streams, in Europe and Russian Asia, from 
the Mediterranean and the Caucasus to the Arctic Circle. Frequent in 
England, local in Ireland, rare in Scotland. Fl. summer, rather late, 
LL. punctata is a marked variety of this species, not uncommon in Germany 
and south-eastern Europe, and occurring, mixed with the common form, in 
north-western England and south-western Scotland. It has the. pedicels 
usually 1-flowered in the axils of the stem-leaves, the sepals rather 
narrower, and the lobes of the corolla fringed with minute glandular hairs; 
but none of these characters are constant. 
2, L. thyrsifiora, Linn. (fig. 653). Zufted Lysimachia.—Stem erect, 
simple, 1 to 2 feet high, sometimes slightly downy. Leaves sessile, lanceo- 
late, 2 to 3 inches long. Flowers small and yellow, in dense axillary 
racemes, more or less pedunculate, but always shorter than the leaves. 
Sepals and petals narrow, the stamens and styles very prominent, and all 
the parts of the flower as often in sixes as in fives. 
On wet banks, and along streams, in central and northern Europe, and 
northern Asia and America, extending to the Arctic Circle. In Britain, 
confined to northern England and central Scotland. Fl. summer. 
3. &. Nummularia, Linn. (fig. 654). Moneywort Lysimachia, 
Creeping Jenny.—Stems prostrate, trailing to the length of 1 to 2 feet, 
often rooting at the nodes. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate or rounded, 
very obtuse, on short stalks. Flowers yellow, large and handsome, on 
axillary peduncles not so long as the leaves; the divisions of the calyx 
broadly ovate and pointed ; the corolla concave, deeply divided into 5 ovate 
lobes. Stamens erect in the centre, with the filaments slightly connected 
at the base, 
On banks, under hedges, and in moist pastures, all over Europe, except 
the extreme north, and eastward to the Caucasus. Not uncommon in 
England; from York and Durham southward; not indigenous in Scotland 
or Ireland. Fl. summer and autumn. 
1, &.nemorum, Linn. (fig. 655). Wood Lysimachia.—A procumbent 
plant, with the habit and rotate corolla of Anagallis arvensis, but with 
