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PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
trifoliata, 
,pacemosa. 
' €|^uadrifolia. 
1. M. leaves ternate, alternate, with sheathing pe- 
tioles. 
Icon. Eng. Bot. 495. FI. Dan. 541. Lamarck 
illustr. t. 100. f. 1. Woodville’s Med. Bot. vol. l,t.2. 
Three-leaved Buck or Bog-bean. Marsh-trefoiL 
The only species of its genus, and a very elegant plant. It 
is not very common in any part of the United States. The 
leaves are of an apple.green, and the flowers rose red. It 
is possessed of strong medicinal virtues, being bitter and su- 
dorific, and was formerly much esteemed Woodville. 
9r. LISIMACHIA, Gen. pi. 269. f Lisimachice.) 
Calix 5-cleft. Corolla rotate, 5-cleft. Stigma 
1. Capmle 1-celled, globular, mucronatc, 
5 or lO-valved, few or many-seeded. — Nutt. 
1. L. very smooth ; leaves oval-lanceolate, opposite, 
dotted, raceme terminal, long, loose ; segments of 
the corolla oblong-oval. — Mich, and Pursh. 
Lf racemosa, Lamarck. 
L. vulgaris, Walt. 
L. stricta, Hort. Kew. 
L. bulbifera, Curt. Bot. Mag. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 104. Pluk. aim. t. 428. f. 4. 
Cluster -jiowered Loosestrife. Bulb-hearing Loose* 
strife. 
A beautiful plant, from one to two feet high, bearing a pro- 
fusion of fine yellow flowers, in a lax terminal raceme. It 
occasionally bears red ovate bulbs in the axils of the leaves 
and small branches. In boggy and low meadow grounds, and 
on the margins of streams of water, common. I have every 
year, for four successive years, found bulb-bearing specimens 
in the boggy grounds of the Woodlands. Mr. Collins informs 
me he has seen the bulbs of specimens from Jersey, near an 
inch long. Perennial. July. 
2. L. leaves subsessile, in fours and fives^ acumi- 
nate, dotted ; peduncles in fours, one-flowered ; 
divisions of the corolla oval, entire. — Willd. and 
Fursh, 
