. Flowers of the field. Botany. 98 above characteristics and tlieir mostly having opposite, entire leaves without stipules, and four-cornered stems. Many of the plants of this tribe possess astringent properties, and some are used for dyeing. Lawsonia inermis is a plant from which the Henna of Egypt is obtained. It is used by the women of that country to stain their nails an orange colour, and is also employed for dyeing morocco leather reddish-yellow. 1. I-YTHRUM (Purple Loosestrife).—Calyx cylindrical, with 12 divisions, alternately smaller ; -petals 6 ; stamens 6 or 12 ; style
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 98 above characteristics and tlieir mostly having opposite, entire leaves without stipules, and four-cornered stems. Many of the plants of this tribe possess astringent properties, and some are used for dyeing. Lawsonia inermis is a plant from which the Henna of Egypt is obtained. It is used by the women of that country to stain their nails an orange colour, and is also employed for dyeing morocco leather reddish-yellow. 1. I-YTHRUM (Purple Loosestrife).—Calyx cylindrical, with 12 divisions, alternately smaller ; -petals 6 ; stamens 6 or 12 ; style long. (Name from the Greek, Ivthron, blood, from the colour of the flowers.) 2. Peplis (Water Purslane).— Calyx bell-shaped, with 12 divi- sions, alternately smaller; petals 6, minute, soon falling off, or absent ; stamens 6 ; style very short. (Name from the Greek, peplion, purslane, anciently the name of another genus.) I. Lytheum [Purple Loosestrife) 1. L. salicaria (Purple Loosestrife or Willowstrife).—Leaves opposite, long, and narrow, heart-shaped at the base; whorled, in leafy spikes ; stamens 12. An exceedingly handsome plant, 2-4 feet high, generally growing on river banks, among sedges and rushes, and sending up tall tapering spikes of purple flowers, which, seen from a distance, might be mistaken for Fox- gloves. The stamens are arranged in two whorls, those of each whorl of a different length to the style ; the style in some instances being longer than the stamens, in others shorter, and in others of a length between that of the stamens of the two whorls. Watery places ; abundant.—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 2. /.. hvssopifolia (Hyssop-leaved Purple Loosestrife).—A much smaller plant, 4-8 inches high ; lower leaves opposite, upper alter- nate ; flowers small, purple, solitary, sessile in the upper leaf axils ; stamens 6, It grows in ^3!«^ moist places in the south of England, but is far from common. 2. Peplis {Water Purslane) I. P. Portula (Watef
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