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‘Water-Violet (Hottonia), an aquatic plant, with all the leaves 
submerged, alternately arranged, and very much cut up. The 
flower-stem arises out of the water, 
and bears 3 to 5 or 6 pale purple 
flowers. This plant is found in 
central and eastern England rather 
than in the wesi. 
‘The Cyclumen has radical, heart- 
shaped leaves on long stalks ; they 
are often purple underneath ; the 
flowers are solitary also on long 
stalks ; the lobes of the corolla are Fic. 102.—Primros, 
bent back over the calyx; the es aes 
fruit is a capsule. When the capsule is ripe and full of 
seeds its stalk begins to coil up; it turns downwards, and 
becomes ae twisted, so that the capsule is buried 
in the earth a short distance 
from the parent plant. In 
this way the Cyclamen sows 
its seeds. This may be 
_casily observed by planting 
Cyclamens on _ rockeries, 
when they flower and seed 
as early as January under 
favourable circumstances. 
The wood Lysemachia is 
not unlike the Pimpernel in 
its manner of growth, but it 
differs from it in having the 
yellow flowers characteristic 
of the genus. 
The Creeping Jenny 
(Lysimachia. nummularia) has the largest flowers of the 
genus. 
The Pimpernel, or ae Man’s Weather Glass (A nagallis), 1s 
very well known and is found in cornfields. The Bog 
Pimpernel belongs chiefly to the West of England, and has a 


Fig. 103. —CYcLAMEN. 
