THE LOOSESTRIFE FAMILY 
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medium-lengthed styles, and the short stamens fertilising the short styles. The pollen is, as usual, 
carried by insects. \Plate 46. 
Common. Moist places, wet ditches, &c. July — September. Perennial. 
Hyssop-leaved Purple Loosestrife. (Ly thrum Hyssopifolia, Linn.) — A much 
smaller plant, the flowers pale mauve, with only 6 stamens, solitary, in the axils of the leaves ; the 
capsule cylindrical; the stems smaller, 6-12 inches long, procumbent, with small, alternate, narrow 
leaves. 
Very rare. In moist places, especially in places over which the water occasionally flows. June — 
September. Annual. 
