. Flowers of the field. Botany. U'mter- Loosash-i/c, '^'cU(yiu rimpernci). Tt often drapes wet laanks very gracefully, and is much planted on rockeries. Its leaves sometimes turn rose-pink in autumn. Fl. June—jLily. Perennial. 6. L. veinoruDi (Yellow Pimpernel, 'Wood Loosestrife).—A verv graceful plant, approaching the Scarlet Pimpernel in habit, but somewhat larger and more glossy; stem spreading, often reddish; leaves opposite, shortly stalked, ovate, acute ; fioicers soHtary, on ^"ery slender, axillary peduncles, bright yellow, star-like and very pretty, from ~j — | in. across.— Shady
. Flowers of the field. Botany. U'mter- Loosash-i/c, '^'cU(yiu rimpernci). Tt often drapes wet laanks very gracefully, and is much planted on rockeries. Its leaves sometimes turn rose-pink in autumn. Fl. June—jLily. Perennial. 6. L. veinoruDi (Yellow Pimpernel, 'Wood Loosestrife).—A verv graceful plant, approaching the Scarlet Pimpernel in habit, but somewhat larger and more glossy; stem spreading, often reddish; leaves opposite, shortly stalked, ovate, acute ; fioicers soHtary, on ^"ery slender, axillary peduncles, bright yellow, star-like and very pretty, from ~j — | in. across.— Shady woods; common. — Fi. >Iay — August. Perennial. 5. TRiExriLLi (Chickweed green). — Glabrous plants with slender, creeping f/n- zoiiics; erect, unbranched sleins, a single whorl of 5 or 6 leaves, and a few white flowers on slender pedun- cles ; calyx 5 -^ 9-cIeft ; corolla rotate ; stamens 5—9 ; capsule opening with 5 revolute valves. (Xame of doubtful etymology.) I. T. eiiropi'ea (Chick- weed ^^'inter-green).—The only European species, and the only British plant re- ferred to the Linnean Class Heptandria, though the stamens are not invariably 7 in number. It grows 4—6 in. high, has large, obovate leaves and delicate white flowers.—\\'oods from Yorkshire and Lancashire northwards. — Fl. June, July. P'erennial. 6. GL-4 (Sea- :Milk- wort), containing only one species, G. maritima, a small, glabrous, Y. GL.\U.\' M.\RITIMA (Sca Milhl^ rt).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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