LOOSESTRIFE

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LOOSESTRIFE , in botany, the common name Of Lysimachia vulgaris, an erect plant, 2 to 4 ft. high, common on river banks in England; the branched stem bears tapering leaves in pairs or whorls, and terminal panicles of rather large deep yellow

flowers

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

. It is a member of the primrose family. L. nemorum, yellow pimpernel, or

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loosestrife, a low-growing plant with slender spreading stem, and somewhat similar yellow

flowers

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

standing

STANDING

singly in the leaf-axils, is frequent in copses. L. Nummularia is the well-known creeping jenny or money-wort, a larger plant with widely creeping stem, pairs of shining leaves and large solitary yellow flowers; it is found on banks of rivers and

damp

DAMP

woods, and is a common rockery plant. Purple loose strife, Lythrum Salicaria, belongs to a different family, Lythraceae. It is a handsome plant growing 2 to 6 ft. high on river banks and ditches, with a branched angled stem bearing whorls of narrow pointed stalkless leaves and ending in tall tapering spikes of beautiful rose-purple flowers. The flowers are trimorphic, that is to say, exist in three forms which differ in the relative length of the styles and stamens and are known as long-styled, mid-styled and short-styled forms respectively; the size and colour of the

pollen

POLLEN, AUGUST (or, as he afterwards called himself, ADOLF) LUDWIG (1794-1855)

also differ. These differences play an important part in the

pollination

POLLINATION

of the flower.

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