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at the end, is feen to contain many feeds affixed to a pla- centa. , . It is to be obferved, that the word willow herb with us is the name of feveral different genera of plants, as is alfo the lyfimaehia with many authors. It is here reftrained to the yellow willow herb alone; but takes in alfo what our au- thors have erroneoufly accounted a diftinfi genus of plants, and called nummularia, or money wort, from the roundnefs of the leaves of the common kind, which referable pieces of money.

The fpecies of lyfimaehia, thus afcertained, are thefe. i.The common great yellow willow herb. 2. The yellow lyfi- maehia with leaves growing three at a joint. 3. The yel- low lyfimaehia with leaves four at a joint. 4. The yellow lyfimaehia with leaves five at a joint. 5. The great <frve leaved lyfimaehia of America with double yellow. nowJp. 1 . The leffer yellow willow herb with leaves fp«t^d 'flfi black. 7. The three leaved yellow lyfimaehia v^h fpiked flowers. 8. The two leaved yellow lyfimaehia wjh globu- lar tufts of flowers. 9. The white flowered ffiked wil- low leaved lyfimaehia, called by fome authors ephemerum. 10. The procumbent fpreading fmall round leaved lyfima- ehia, called nummularia lutea, or yellow moneywort. II. The round leaved fpreading procumbent lyfimaehia with purple flowers, called purple moneywort. 12. The low fpreading yellow lyfimaehia with roundim, but pointed leaves, commonly called anagallh lutea nemorum, yellow pimpernel of the woods. And 13. the fmall annual knot- grafs leaved lyfimaehia, called limim Jlellatum minimum by Cafpar Bauhine,

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Authors have czk 4 alio feveral other plants by this r.a'r,?, which p ro perl ^#y long to other genera. Of the number "tffi^hefe are the lyfimaehia lutea cornicuiaia^ or horned yellow willow herb, which is a fpecies of ona- gra. 2. The fpecies of fdiquofe, or podded willow herbs* which are properly chamerions. 3. The purple fpiked willow herb, which is a fpecies of lalicaria. 4. The blue fpiked willow herb, which is a kind of veronica. 5. The headed willow herb, which is a fpecies of caffia. Tourn. Inft. p. 141.

Lysimachia worm, in natural hiftory, a name given to an^nfecl»£ourfcf very frequently feeding on the leaves of th.£mhlfi?nachia) or wjllow herb. It has ufually been eftecm- cd .!,; caterpillar, but is properly one of the faulTe chenilles, havSjFg a rounded head, and twenty two legs. This crea- ture changes its fkin feveml times, and finally changes its colour with it. It is a^firft of a blucilh grey, but on its laAchange in the worm ftate, it becomes of a yellowiih green. ^ffi"h en \t has lived a week, or thereabout, after this lafl^feinge, it becomes a chryfalts, from which there afterwards comes out a four winged fly. Reaumur's Hilt. Infeft. Vol. 9. p. 18.

LYSSA, a word ufed by medical authors to exprefs that fpecies of madnefs which is peculiar to dogs and wolves, but is communicated by their bite to man and other ani- mals. Hence perfons, labouring under the difmal effe&s of fuch a bite, are called alfo lyjjbdefti.

LYTHRUM, in botany, a name by which Linnsus calls a genus of plants, named by Tournefort, and other Authors, falicaria. Linnm Gen, Pi. p. 208. See S-alicaria,

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