peat soil, in a shady damp border. It is propagated by 
seeds, or by division of its creeping roots. 
A creeping, herbaceous plant, with permanent leaves. 
Stems rounded, branched, covered with glandular hairs, pros- 
trate, sometimes as much as a foot and a half long, more 
usually about a span high. Leaves glandular, villous, 
stalked, ovate, with large teeth, sometimes subcordate at 
the base, emitting avery powerful and grateful smell of 
musk. lowers axillary, in pairs or solitary, with glan- 
dular, villous, filiform peduncles, twice as short as the 
leaves. Calyx tubular, glandular, with subulate, ovate 
segments, a little shorter than the tube of the corolla. 
Corolla yellow, whole-coloured, with roundish, nearly 
equal lobes, the lowest being striated at the faux, and the 
middle one slightly bearded. Capsule ovate, acuminate, 
shorter than the calyx, two-celled, 4-valved, dehiscing at 
the sides, with the septa firmly adhering to the axis. 
Seeds very minute, brown, roundish. os 
