Lysimachia vulgaris. Yellow Lo 
OSE-STRIFE. 
LYSIMACHIA Lit:. Gen. PI. Pentandria monogynia. 
Cor. rotata. CapJ. globofa, mucronata, decemvalvis. 
Ran Syn. Get,. 18. Herbee fructu sicco singulari flore monopetalo. 
LYSIMACHIA terminalibus. Liti. Syjl. Vegetab. p. ,65, Sp. PI. p. 209. 
LYSIMACHIA foliis ovato-lanceolatis, fpicis paniculatis. Hali Hijl. 630. 
LYSIMACHIA vulgaris. Scopoli Fi Can,, n. 214. 
LYSIMACHIA lutea. I. B. II. 9 or. Ger. emae. 474. 
LYSIMACHIA lutea major qua: Diofcoridis. Bauh. Pin. 245. 
LYSIMACHIA luto major vulgaris. Park 5+4. Yellow Willow-herb or Loofe flrife. Rail Syn. 
z$x. Hudfon FI. Angl. ed. 2. p. 86. Lightfoot FI. Scot. p. ,38. * 
RADIX perennis, repens. 
CAULIS tripedalis et ultra, eredus, ubi folia bina ob- 
tule tetragonus, ubi terna fulcatus, feu augu- 
lofus, angulis obtufis ; fuperne hirfutulus, 
inferne glaber, ramofus, ad genicula paululum 
incraflatus. 
FOLIA bina,. feu terna, quaterna et quina etiam obfer- 
vavi, feffilia, 
ovato-lanceolata, integra, margine 
inasquali, venofa, nuda. 
| ROOT perennial and creeping. 
■SI ALK three feet or more in height, when the leaves 
grow in pairs, obtufely four-cornered; when 
three together, grooved or angular, angles ob- 
tufe, the upper part of the ftalk {lightly hairy, 
the lower fmooth, branched, and a little 
thickened at the joints. 
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I LEAVES growing in pairs, or three together, I have 
even noticed them growing four or five toge- 
ther, fellile, ovate and pointed, entire but not 
perfectly even on the edges, veiny and defti- 
tute of hairs. 
FLOWERS yellow, forming a panicle, flower-branches 
terminal, growing from the ake of the leaves. 
FLOWER-STALKS fingle-flowered, fomewhat vifeid, 
and thickened at the extremity. 
CALYX : a Perianthium of one leaf, deeply divided 
into five fegments, pointed, upright, and per- 
manent, the fegments ftriated, and edged with 
red, the tips both before and after flowering- 
twifted. fig. 1. 
COROLLA monopetalous, wheel-fhaped. Limb deeply 
divided into five fegments, which are ovate 
^ and pointed. Jig. 2. 
¥ STAMINA : five Filaments, unequal, fhorter than 
the corolla, tapering, flattened, vifeid, grow- 
ing together at bottom. Anthers incum- 
| bent, fomewhat arrow- fhaped. Jig. 3. 
I PISTILLUM: Germen roundilh. Style filiform, the 
I length of the flamina, lengthened out as the 
I flowers go off. Stigma blunt. Jig. 4. 
f SEED-VESSEL a globular capfule of one cavitv, and 
I ten valves. 
4 SEEDS numerous, very minute. 
¥ RECEPTACLE globular, and very larg 
FLORES paniculati, lutei, racemis terminalibus ex alis 
foliorum. 
PEDUNCULI uniflori, fubvifeidi, apice incraflati. 
CALYX : Perianthium monophyllum, quinquepar- 
titum, acutum, eredtum, perfiftens, laciniis 
flriatis, rubro marginatis, apicibus ante et poft 
florefeentiam tortuofis. Jig. 1 . 
COROLLA monopetala, rotata. Limbus quinquepar- ; 
titus, laciniis ovatis, acutis. Jig. 2. : 
STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, inaequalia, corolla 
breviora, fubulata, comprefla, vifeofa, bafi con- 
nata. Anthers incumbentes, fubfagittatse. 
fig- 3 - 
PISTILLUM : Germen fubrotundum. Stylus fili- 
formis, longitudine flaminum, peradta florei' 
centia elongatus. Stigma obtufum. Jig. 4. 
PERICARPIUM : Capsula globofa, unilocularis, de- 
cemvalvis. 
SEMINA plurima, minima. 
RECEPTACULUM globofum, maximum. 
of ““e”' writers attributed a very fmgular property to this plant; no lefs than a power of famine 
ferocious, and reconcUrng d.fcordant animals ; and hence they derive its name of Lyjimachia *. P Others attribute 
the origin of its name to the learned and brave Lysimachus, who, they fay, was its firft difeoverer : however 
this be, our Englilh name of Loofe-JinJe appears evidently to be founded on the power thus idly afcribed to it. 
This herb, though not fo common as its name feems to imply, is tolerably frequent about London , in moift 
meadows, and by water-fides, efpecially in the environs of the Thames. J 
It varies much in the number of the leaves at the joints, and confequently in the angular appearance of its ftalk. 
The twifted tips of the Calyx, though very remarkable, do not appear to have been noticed by authors 
Such as wflh to ornament the edge of a river, or piece of water, cannot feleft a more proper plant; but its 
beautiful effeft will be heightened by planting with it the Lythrum S alicaria ; both of thefe have ftrong perennial 
roots, and will alfo readily grow m gardens where the foil is moift. 5 ^ 
It flowers in July and Auguji. 
Some aferibe to it the power of dying green. 
. A Jirimnda for ,1... ri, r i„ ,J, drimre, of taking away «rife or dob.ta batmen be.it,, not only ttafe that are voled 
togathar, hot even thole that are wtld a fo, by rnalttng them tama and quiet, which, a, they fay, this herb will do if is be a that out abont Act 
yokes or their necks, which how true I leave to them who fhall try and find it i'o. Parkins, p. 544. P C “ thclr 
