294 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Lysimachia, 
Essex. Mr. Jones. Between Ormskirk and Liverpool. Dr. Stokes. 
Road-sides from Lichfield to Barton under Needwood. Mr. Pitt. 
Ditches, Suffolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. In a pit by the foot-road 
from Wellington in Shropshire, to Leegomery. (Crosby, ,near Liverpool; 
also about Bootle and Formby in the same neighbourhood. Dr. Bos- 
tock. In Purbeck, and about Wareham and Poole. Pulteney. In 
ditches near Darlington. Rev. « . Harriman. In Mainsforth Carr, near 
Rushyford, Durham. Winch Guide. In dykes at Ham Ponds, Kent. Mr. 
G. E. Smith. Ditches in Corsddygai, &c. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. In a 
pond near the south-west corner of Nottingham meadows; also at Len- 
ton and Clifton, Notts. E.) P. June—July. 
LYSIMA'CHIA.* Bloss. wheel-shaped: Caps, globular, 
pointed, of one cell, ten valves, and many seeds. 
(1) Fruit-stalks many-flowered. 
L. vulgaris. Panicles terminal: (leaves egg-spear-shaped, acute, 
ter or quaternate. E.) 
Curt. 288 —( E. Bot. 761. E.) — Blaekw. 278 — Kniph. 7 — Clus. ii. 50. 2— 
Bod. 84 —Ger. Em. 474. 1 —Park. 544. 1 — H. Ox. v. 10. U—Matth. 949 
— FI. Ban. 689—Fuchs. 492 —Trag. 183. 
(Two or three feet high, upright, angular, leafy. Leaves smooth, or downy, 
in pairs or in threes, nearly sessile, spear-shaped, waved at the edge. 
Calyx and blossom sometimes with six divisions. Filaments broad and 
united at the base into a cylinder inclosing the germen. Flowers yellow, 
(large, an inch over. E.) 
Yellow Loosestrife. (Welsh: Trewynyn cyffredin. E.) Banks of 
rivers and shady marshes, (of common occurrence in the south, but rare 
in the north of England. E.) By the side of the Avon at Pershore. Mr. 
Ballard. Moist situations in Hampshire, common. Mr. Pitt. (Below 
Bidford Grange, opposite the flood-gates on the Avon. Purton. Near 
Crosby, in the neighbourhood of Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Bottom of 
Bath Hills, near Bungay ; and frequent in the Fens of Suffolk and Cam¬ 
bridgeshire. Mr. Woodward. In Purbeck ; about New Bridge, between 
Wimbourne and Ringwood; by the river side between Blandford and 
Durweston; and about Rushton. Pulteney. By the Drop Well, near 
Darlington. Winch Guide. By the Mole at Brockham. Mr. Winch. 
Llyn-traffwll, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Castle Loch, at Lochmaben, Dum- 
fries-shire. Mr. Maughan. Daldowie. Dr. Brown, in Hook. Scot. Banks 
of the Ouse, near Hartford. E.) P. July.t 
* (The literal meaning is answered by the English name Loose-strife , from the power of 
taming even wild beasts once idly attributed to it; though Pliny refers it to one of Alexander’s 
Generals ; or possibly to a King of Sicily, who is said to have first discovered its virtues ; 
but in what those virtues consist, or whether the fable may not rather have been originally 
applied to some other plant, seems equally problematical. E.) 
f (Perhaps a passage in Collin’s Faithful Shepherdess may tend to elucidate the subject 
of the preceding Note : 
“ Yellow Lysimachus , to give sweet rest 
To the faint shepherd, killing, where it comes, 
All busy gnats, and every fly that hums 
whence the Author of (i Flora Domestica” infers that i( the Romans had good reason to 
