Lysimachia Nemorum. Wood Moneywort, or 
Loosestrife. 
LYSIMACHIA 
Linnaei Gen. PL Pentandria Monogynia. 
Cor. rotata. Capfi. globofa, mucronata, io-valvis. 
Raii Syn. Gen. 18. Herb.® fructu sicco singulari flore monopetalo; 
LYSIMACHIA 
nemorum foliis ovatis acutis, floribus folitariis, caule procumbente. 
Vegetab. p. 165. Sp. Pl.p. 211. 
Lin. Syfi. 
LYSIMACHIA 
caule decumbente, foliis ovato-Ianceolatis, petiolis alaribus unifloris. 
p. 278. 
Haller hifi. 
ANAGALLIS 
lutea nemorum. Bauhin Pin. p. 252. 
ANAGALLIS 
lutea. Gerard emac. 618. 
ANAGALLIS 
flore luteo. Parkinf. 558. 
ANAGALLIS 
lutea nummulariae fimilis. J. Bauh. III. 370. Raii Syn. p. 282. Yellow Pimper- 
nel of the Woods. Huyon FI. Ang. p. 86. Lightfoot FI. Scot. p. 138. 
RADIX perennis, fibrofa, fibris albidis. | ROOT perennial, fibrous, the fibres whitiffi. 
CAULES plures, decumbentes, teretiufculi, utrinque | STALKS feveral, decumbent, roundilh, with a fur- 
fulcati, idque alterne, laeves, rubentes, ex | row on each fide, and that alternately, 
ima parte radicantes. fmooth, of a red colour, ftriking root at the 
l bafe. 
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FOLIA oppofita, petiolata, ovata, acuta, utrinque | LEAVES oppofite, Handing on foot-flalks, ovate, 
glabra, fubundulata, e flavo-viridia, venis 4} pointed, glofly on each fide, fomewhat 
prominulis ; petiolis brevibus, latiufculis. | waved, of a yellowilh-green colour, the veins 
Q a little prominent; leaf-ftalks fliort and 
broadifh. 
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PEDUNCULI axillares, bini five fohtarii, teretes, | FLOWER-STALKS axillary, growing fometimes in 
uniflori, tenues, quam folia longiores. ^ pairs, fometimes fingly, round, one-flower’d, 
^ flender, and longer than the leaves. 
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CALYX: Perianthium quinquepartitum, perfiftens, |> CALYX : a Perianthium deeply divided into five 
laciniis fubulatis, fubtriangularibus. fig. i. | fegments, and permanent, the fegments awl- 
| fhaped, and fomewhat triangular, fig. 1. 
COROLLA monopetala, flava, tubus nullus ; limbus <[> 
quinquepartitus, laciniis ovatis, fig. 2. g. $ 
bafi faturatius flavis, nitidifque, in fauce co- 4) 
rollze glandulae flavae inter filamenta locantur, | 
et margo corollae glandulis pedicellatis or- 
natur, fig. 6. | 
COROLLA monopetalous, yellow, tube wanting, the 
limb divided into five ovate fegments, fu?. 2 . 
3. at bottom more intenfely yellow and 
Ihining, in the mouth of the corolla fmall yel- 
low glands are obfervable betwixt the fila- 
ments, and the edge of the corolla is orna- 
mented with little glands Handing on foot- 
flalks, fig. 6. 
STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, laevia ere&a, jj STAMINA : five Filaments, fmooth, upright, 
medio paulo crafliora ; Antherje oblongae, $ fomewhat thickefl in the middle; Anther.® 
incurvata:, fig. 4. 5. | oblong, bent a little downwards, fig. 4. 5. 
PISTILLUM: Germen fubrotundum, laeve; Sty- PISTILLUM : Germen roundilh, fmooth; Style 
lus filiformis, apice paulo craflior ; Stigma | filiform, fomewhat thickefl at top ; Stigma 
(implex,/#. 7. » fimple, fig. -j. 
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PERICARPIUM : Capsula globofa, unilocularis, $ SEED-VESSEL : a globular Capsule of one cavity, 
fig- S. ? fig- 8. 
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SEMINA plurima, orbiculata, plana, fig. g. ® SEEDS numerous, round, and flat, fig. g. 
When the blofloms of this plant are expanded, they fomewhat refemble thofe of the common Pimpernel in 
Ihape, and hence the older Botanifts, who paid little regard to fuch minute but neceflary diftintlions, as the 
hairinefs of the Filaments, &c. confidered it as an Anagallis ; Ltnn.®us has joined it with the Moneywort, to 
which, in its general habit, it bears no fmall affinity, but from which it eflentially differs in many particulars ; 
the leaves, for inftance, are more pointed, the flowers are fmaller, lefs bell-ffiaped, and Hand on much longer 
foot-flalks, and the ftalks are generally redder. 
This fpecies grows in moift woods, and is not uncommon in the neighbourhood of London ; in Charlton- 
Wpod it particularly abounds, flowering from June to September. 
