LYSIMA'CHIA STRICTA. 
STRAIGHT-BRANCHED LOOSE-STRIFE. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMULACE®. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America 
If foot. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial . 
in 1781. 
No. 758. 
The derivation of the name, Lysimachia, has 
been noticed at length under No. 564. The spe- 
cific name, Stricta, is expressive of the natural 
habit of the plant, being, as it is, straight and some- 
what rigid. Another name — bulbifera, was sub- 
sequently, and therefore unnecessarily adopted, in 
allusion to the little bulbs which are produced in 
the axils of the leaves of this Lysimachia. 
The distinction between these bulbs and com- 
mon buds will be seen to be much less than may 
appear at first sight ; under common circumstances 
the one emits its roots into the parent stem, whilst 
the other does so into moist earth. 
Lysimachia stricta is usually met with, in its 
native country, in moist and somewhat boggy 
situations; hence it is found, when brought into 
cultivation, to grow the most luxuriantly in damp 
places; it may, however, be grown in almost any 
exposure, in a light sandy soil, but we have not 
found it increase freely unless in a rather cool part 
of the garden. It may be propagated by division 
of the roots ; or by planting the little stem bulbs 
as soon as they are ripe in October. 
Hoft, Kew. 2, V. 1, 314. 
