DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Bartsia. 119 



Bot.v. 15. t. \045. Light/. 32 ].t. 14. Hook. Scot. 186. Lond. 

 M67. Dicks. Dr. PL 72. 



Euphrasia major lutea latifolia palustris. Raii Sijn.^285. Pluk. 

 Phyt. t. 27. f. 5, very bad ; copied by Petiver, H. Brit. t. 36./. 6. 



Alectorolophos Ualica luteo-pallida. Barrel. Ic. t. 665, good. 



In marshy ground^ in the western parts of Britain and Ireland, but 

 rare. 



In several parts of Cornwall and Devonshire. Huds. F. Borone, and 

 Mr. E. Forster. Plentiful near Orniskirk, Lancashire. Huds. 

 A.t Allerton, near Liverpool. Mr. Robert Roscoe. In Argylshire. 

 Light/, and Mr. J. Mackay. Dr. Hooker mentions several sta- 

 tions of this plant, on the south-west side of Scotland. It is said 

 by Dr. Wade, PL Rar. Hib. 49, to grow in a bog, G miles from 

 Cork, on the road to Killarney. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root fibrous. S^ew solitary, erect, round, downy, from 3 to 15 

 inches high, leafy, simple, except occasionally when very luxu- 

 riant. Leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate, strongly serrated, veiny, 

 downy, about an inch long j the lower ones generally opposite; 

 upper, or floral, ones alternate. Fl.on short solitary stalks, from 

 the bosoms of half, or two-thirds, of the leaves, crowded about 

 the summit of the stem. Cal. with a whitish tube and green 

 border, all over hairy and viscid. Cor. twice as long, yellow, 

 with some stains or streaks of red or purple j the segments of 

 its lower lip rounded. Seeds minute, angular, not bordered. 



Mr. Hopkirk observed the flowers to have an agreeable, faint, 

 musky smell. Hooker. 



Linnaeus confounded this plant with his RhinantJius Trixago, which 

 is indeed a Bartsia, but a distinct species j see Prodr. Fl. Grcec. 

 «. 1.427. 



3. B. Odontites. Red Bartsia. 



Leaves lanceolate, serrated ; the upper ones alternate. 

 Flowers forming unilateral clusters. Stem square, branch - 

 ed. Root fibrous. 



B. Odontites. Huds. 268. FL Br. 648. EngL Bot. v. 20. t. 1415. 



Relh.2A0. Hook. Scot IS6. 

 Euphrasia Odontites. Linn. Sp. P^. 841. Willd. v. 3. 194, Curt. 



Lond./asc. 1 . L 44. Mart. Rust. t. 42. FL Dan. t. 625. 

 E. pratensis rubra. Bauh. Pin. 234. Raii Syn. *284. 

 E. altera, Dod. Pempt. 55. /. Lob. Ic. 496. /. Dalech. Hist. 



1167./. 

 Odontites. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 90./. 2. 

 •O, n. 304. HaU. Hist. v.\.\34. 

 Cratseogonon Euphrosine. Ger.Em.9\./. 

 Red Eye-bright. Petiv. H. BriL L 36./. 7. 

 In meadows and pastures, especially on a cold and wet clay soil. 

 Annual. July, August. 



