118 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Bartsia. 



Bot.v.6.t.36\. Hook. Scot. \86. LowJ. ^ 87, exxellent. Dicks. 



H. Sicc.fasc. 10. 14. Fl. Dan. t. 43. 

 Staehelinea n. 3 1 2. Hall. Hist. v. 1.136. 

 Euphrasia rubra Westmorlandica, foliis brevibus obtusis. Raii 



Syn. *285. 

 Clinopodio alpino. Pon. Bald. 207. f. 

 Clinopodium alpinum. Pon. in Clus. Hist. v. 2. 343./. Ger. Em. 



C. alpinum hirsutum, Pluk. Almag.WO. Phyt. t. 163./. 5. 

 Chamasdri vulgari falsae aliquateniis affinis alpina. Bauh.Hist.v.3. 



p. 2. 289./ 

 Orton Red Eye-bright. Petiv. H. Brit. t.36.f. 8. 



In boggy alpine meadows, or about the borders of mountain rivu- 

 lets, in the north of England and Highlands of Scotland. 



Near Orton, Westmoreland, by a rivulet which accompanies the 

 road to Crosby. Ray, Hudson. Near Middleton in Teesdale. 

 Rev. Mr. Harriman and Mr. Oliver. On the Yorkshire as well as 

 Durham side of the river. Dr. Hooker. Among rocks to the 

 east of Malghyrdy, in the Highlands of Scotland. Mr. Dickson. 

 On Ben Lawers, Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial. July. 



Root moderately creeping. Stems from 4 to 8 inches high, quite 

 simple, quadrangular, most hairy on the opposite sides. Leaves 

 sessile, in pairs crossing each other, ovate, or somevyhat heart- 

 shaped, veiny, deep green, strongly serrated, not an inch long. 

 Fl. inodorous, on short, solitary stalks, from the bosoms of se- 

 veral of the uppermost, diminished, purplish, crowded leaves, 

 forming a dense leafy spike. CrtZ. also purplish, viscid. Cor. of 

 a vivid purplish blue. Seeds deeply furrowed along their outer 

 edge. 



The whole plant turns quite black in drying, especially if gathered 

 young ; and, as Dr. Hooker observes, cannot be seen to ad- 

 vantage except in its native places of growth, where it makes a 

 beautiful appearance. It occupies the loftiest alps of Switzerland 

 and Savoy. 



Linnaeus having, very early, dedicated this genus to his highly de- 

 serving but unfortunate friend Bartsch ; who died at Surinam, 

 in consequence of the neglect, if not persecution, of his slave- 

 trading countrymen the Dutch ; could not adopt the name given 

 by Haller, but established another very handsome Stcehelina on 

 the recommendation of the latter. See Linnaan Correspondence, 

 V. 2. 294, &c. 



2. B. iHSCosa. Yellow Viscid Bartsia. 



Leaves serrated ; upper ones alternate. Flowers lateral 

 and distant. Stem round. Root fibrous. 



B.viscosa. Linn. Sp. PL 83i). mild. v.3. ]86. FLBr.648. Engl. 



