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2. R. major. Large Bushy Yellow Rattle. 



Stem much branched. Leaves linear-lanceolate, serrated. 



Bracteas taper-pointed. Calyx smooth. Style prominent. 



Seeds slightly bordered. 

 R. major. Ehrh. Herb. 56. Beitr.v. 6. 144. 

 R. Crista galli p. Linn. Sp. PL S4i). H'illd. v.3. ISO. FL Br.649. 

 Alectorolophus n, 313 /3. Hall. Hist. v. 1,137. 

 Pedicularis major angustifolia ramosissima, flora minore luteo, la- 



bello purpureo. Dill, in Raii Si/n. *284. 

 Crista galli angustifolia montana. Bauh. Pin, 1G3. Prodr. 86. 



In corn-fields in the north of England. 



A mile from Horough-bridge, in the road to Knaresborough, also 

 between Wetherby and Catall, Yorkshire ; and near West New- 

 ton, Northumberland ; always among corn. Dr. Richardson. 

 Plentifully on Stockton Common, and in many other parts of 

 the county of Durham, in corn-fields " approaching to peat j" 

 sometimes nearly obliterating crops of corn. Mr. James Back- 

 house. 



Annual. July, 2 or 3 weeks later than the former. 



Dr. Richardson distinguished this species, from our common R. 

 Crista galli, by its greater size, copious branches, narrower 

 leaves, and smuWerJlowers with a purple (upper) lip. Ehrhart 

 has characterized it by the incurved tube of the corolla, which in 

 the former is straight. Mr. Backhouse, to whom I am obliged 

 for numerous wild specimens, says it may be known at first 

 sight by its greater size, being 2 feet high, much branched, and 

 bushy J its much denser spikes ; and its yellowish bracteas, each 

 of which terminates in an elongated green point. The seg- 

 ments of the upper lip of the corolla are wedge-shaped, and 

 purple. Germen narrower, and more tumid, than in R. Crista 

 galli. Style prominent. Nectary heart-shaj)ed, more spread- 

 ing, and greenish. The seeds are thick at the edge, and not 

 quite destitute of a membranous margin, but this is much nar- 

 rower than in the former. Prof. Afzelius long ago assured 

 me that R. ///^/yor of Ehrhart differed in its seeds from our com- 

 mon Crista galli. The Alectorolophus n. 314, of Ilaller, which 

 is less branched, with broader /e^/iTS, and a hairy calyx, appears 

 very distinct from our R. major, and more allied to R. Crista 

 gain. I have R. major gathered by Mr. Davall, on some of the 

 loftiest of the mountains of Switzerland. 



:m. EUPHRASIA. Eye-bright. 



Linn. Gen. 'M)4. Juss. HKK ri.Rr.CKA). Tnurn.t.7^. Lam. 

 t.:i\H. Gccrtn. t.:>\. 



Nat. Ord. see //. .'JO.'J. 



C'r//. tul)ular, (•yiindrical, rll)l)r(l, prrmanont : the margin 



