Lysimachia.~\ 
LXVI. PRIMULACEyE. 
347 
Sea-shore and muddy salt-marshes, abundant. U . 6,7. — Stems 
2 — 4 or even 10 incites long, stout, branched, often procumbent. 
Leaves opposite, ovate, glabrous, fleshy, entire, sessile, small. Flowers 
sessile, solitary, axillary, rose-coloured, with 5 obtuse spreading lobes. 
5. Tkientalis Linn, Chickweed Winter-green. 
Cal. about 7- (5 — 9-) partite. Cor. rotate ; tube very short; 
limb of as many deep ilat divisions as the calyx. Slam, as many 
as the sepals beardless. Caps, opening to the base with 5 — 9 
recurved fugacious valves. Seeds with a reticulated tunic. — 
Name supposed to be the same as trientalis, the third part of a 
foot, or 4 inches, such being the usual height of the plant. 
1. T. Europat' a L. ( European C.) ; leaves oblong-obovate ob- 
tuse. E. B. t. 15. 
Woods in the north of England, rare. Abundant in many parts 
of the Highlands of Scotland. Not found in Ireland, y. 6 
Rhizome filiform, creeping. Stems 4 — 6 inches high, with 2 or 3 small 
distant leaves, and 4 — 7 terminal whorled larger ones, from the ceutre 
of which arise 1 — 4 slender single-flowered peduncles. Cal -leaflets 
almost subulate, varying in number from 6 to 9, as do all the other 
parts of the flower and the valves of the capsule. The beautiful 
covering, like the finest white lace, of its seeds, has been taken for a 
pericarp by botanists who had not seen the very fugacious horny valves 
of its capsule. 
6. Lysimachia Linn. Loose-strife. 
Cal. 5-partite. Cor. rotate. Siam. 5 — 6, not distinctly hairy, 
sometimes with alternating sterile filaments. Caps. 1-celled, 
5 — 10-valved. — ’Named in honour of king Lysimaclius , accord- 
to some ; according to others, from \voic, a dissolving, and 
naxni battle. The English name, it will be at once seen, has a 
similar meaning. Pliny says it tames restiff horses. 
1. L. vulgaris L. (great yellow Z.) ; stem erect, leaves ovato- 
lanceolate nearly sessile opposite or ter-quaternate, panicles 
compound terminal and axillary, lobes of the corolla ovate 
obtuse quite entire, stamens 5 unequal combined for half then- 
length into a glandular tube without sterile ones. E.B. t. 761. 
Sides of rivers and wet shady places, less frequent in Scotland. 
y. 7, 8. — Stem erect, 2 — 3 ft. high. Leaves nearly sessile, glabrous 
or downy beneath. Panicle leafy, usually much branched. Corollas 
large, yellow, handsome. 
2. L. punctata L. (spotted-leaved Z.) ; stem erect, leaves 
ovato-laneeolate nearly sessile opposite or verticillate, peduncles 
axillary usually 1 -flowered sometimes slightly branched, lobes 
of the corolla ovate ciliate with minute glandular hairs, 
stamens 5 combined for half their length into a glandular tube 
without sterile ones. L. Westphalica, Gard. Citron. 1854, p. 614. 
q 6 
