190 DIDYN. ANGIOSP. 



28. VERBENA. 



1. V. officinalis {common Vervain), tetrandrous, spikes slender 

 panicled, leaves inucli cut, stem erect solitary. Liglitf.p. 78. 

 E. n. t. 767. 



Hab. "Without tlic gates of Inverkeithing, Dr. Parsons. Fl. Aug. 1/ . 



Stem 1 foot or more hig'n, slender, panicled above. Leaves deeply 

 cut, ovate or lanceolate ; the lower ones subpetiolate. Floieers 

 sniall, tubular, .1-claft; lobes spreading, somcv/hat equal, purplish, 

 each with a small bractea at its base. Pericarp soon disappearing, 

 leaving the 4 really naked seeds at the bottom of the cul. 



29. LINNiEA. 



1. L. horealis {Jwo-Jlowered Lwvcea). E. B. I. 1297. 



Hab. Fir woods in very shady places. Fir wood at Mearns near Aber- 

 deen, Prof. James Beattie. Hill of Kinnoul, near Perth, Messrs. 

 Brown. Crebston, o miles from Aberdeen ; and at Kemnay, 1 G 

 miles N.\\'. from Aberdeen, Maugh. Several woods in Aberdeen- 

 shire, Mr. Craigie. Lately discovered in a fir wood, called Drum- 

 mond, 1 mile to the S.W. of Inverness, hy Mr. Urquhart, and 

 Mr. G. Anderson of that town. Only one large patch was found, 

 and that producing no flovv-ers. F/. May, June. %. 



Stems trailing, filiform, woody, with distant, ovato-rotmidate, oppo- 

 site, shortly petiolate, creuate, scarcely hairy leaves. Peduncles 

 erect, 2 — 4 inches long, with two drooping pedicellate y?o«.'ers, brac- 

 teated at the forking of the pedicels, and with 2 pair of distant, 

 small hractcas upon the pedicels, uppermost pair or involucre glan- 

 dular, placed just beneath the inferior gcrmen. Cal. small. Cor. 

 cam])anulate, Vi-hite, with arose coloured extremity, 5-cleft. Fruit 

 enveloped by the glandular involucre, a dry berrtj, never ripening 

 more than I seed, according to Wahl.; for I have never seen the 

 fruit myself. 



30. LIMOSELLA. 



1. L. aqnutica {Mudwort). Lig;htf. p.'o^X. E. B. t.357. 

 Hab. Muddy places where water has stood, but not common. Fl. 



July, Aug. ©. 

 A minute creeping plant, throwing up clusters of narrow, spathulate, 



glabrous leaves, 1 or 2 inches long. Floiccrs very small, axillary, 



peduncled, pale rose colour. Stam. almost equal, as well as the 



segments of the cor. 



31. OROBANCHE. 



1. O. mnjor {greater Broom-Rape), stem simple, cor. tubular 

 its upper lip undivided lower one in three nearly equal seg- 

 ments their lateral ones acute the terminal one largest obtuse, 

 stam. glabrous, style downy. Lightf. p. 332. 



Hab. Dry pastures, but rare; upon the Buck of Burntisland, Sibhald. 

 Roots of trees. Logic Almond, Perthshire, Mr. Murray. Isle of 

 Skye, Dr. Walker. Parasitic on the roots of plants, especially the 

 diadelphous ones. Fl. June. July. 1/ ? 



