LYSIMA'CHIA HY'BRIDA. 
HYBRID LOOSE-STRIFE. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMULACE®. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America 
18 inches. 
July, Aug'. 
Perennial. 
in 1806. 
No. 616. 
This genus was named after the celebrated Ly- 
simachus. King of Thrace. See No. 564. 
Some species of this genus, although very orna- 
mental, are excommunicated from all flower gar- 
dens on account of their persevering and unmanage- 
able habit of travelling under ground into the 
domains of their neighbours. Lysimachia vulgaris 
will, not unfrequently, make its uninvited appear- 
ance on the opposite side of a gravel walk to that in 
which it was planted. But for this vagrant propen- 
sity it would be an acceptable plant. 
Such, however, as we have described, is not 
the habit of Lysimachia hybrida. It remains at 
home, adding there increase to increase, and be- 
coming an ornament to its own neighbourhood. 
We are indebted for it to the Garden of the Bir- 
mingham Botanical Society, an establishment which, 
under the judicious management of its admirable 
curator, Mr. Cameron, is estimated to extend, al- 
ready to 8,000 species. 
Lysimachia hybrida is a scarce plant, and in 
growth it becomes far more ornamental than a sin- 
gle specimen would indicate. Increase by division. 
Loudon’s Ency. PI. 128, 
