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sposal, that they have described so many species — this is a com- 

 mon fault by monographers working in a country far away, a fault 

 which now-a-days often is committed with regard to northern spe- 

 cies belonging to genera, monographed by Central-European botanists. 



67. Euphrasia borealis (Towns.) Wettst. 



This is the only Færoese species with larger corollas, and it is 

 therefore easily distinguished from the other species. On the other 

 hånd it is very near E. brevipila Burnat et GremH, and is perhaps, 

 as suggested by Mr. Townsend, only an eglandular from of it. 



68. E. curta Fr., Wettst. 



Small specimens of this species are not rare beyond the en- 

 closed fields in the lowlands; they are rather broadleaved and tend 

 to approach E. latifolia Pursh, without giving place for any doubt 

 with regard to their naming. 



69. E. minima Jacquin apud Schleich.; R. Wettstein, Monogr. 

 der Gatt. Euphrasia, 1896, p. 151; E. scotica Wettst., 1. c. p. 170; 

 Townsend, Journ. Botany, 1897, p. 425; Ostenfeld, Bot. Fær., I, 

 p. 56; E. pahidosa Townsend, Journ. Botany, 1891, p. 161, non R. Br. ; 

 E.gracilis Ostenfeld, Bot. Færoes I, p. 56, non Fr.; E. latifolia Osten- 

 feld, ibid. p. 56, non Pursh ; E. arctica Lange apud Rostrup, Færoernes 

 Flora, Bot. Tids. IV, 1870, p. 47, ex parte (quoad plantæ færoenses). 



In 1891 Mr. F. Townsend published a note in the Journal of 

 Botany on a new form of Euphrasia, which he named E. pahidosa. 

 He had found it in boggy ground around Braemar in Scotland. In 

 some respects it was like E. gracihs, but differed, among other cha- 

 racters, in its small, whitish flowers, its short and rather broad 

 capsule and its wet habitat. As R. Brown had applied the name 

 pahidosa to another species (from Australia), R. Wettstein in his 

 monograph (1896, p. 151) altered the name of Townsend's plant to 

 E. scotHca Wettst. (more correctly spelt scotica), and under this name 

 the plant has gone since (e. g. by Townsend, Monograph of the Bri- 

 tish species of Euphrasia, Journ. of Botany, 1897, p. 425, and Eu- 

 phrasia scotica, Journ. of Botany, 1903, p. 57). 



Wettstein considers E. scotica to be very near E. minima and 

 says (1. c. p. 171), that the only difference of importance lies in the 

 length of the capsule in proportion to the calyx, but adds that he 

 does not know if this difference is constant. Shortly after Town- 

 send (Monograph, p. 426) declares, that it is not constant, as he 

 has found specimens of E. scotica with capsules exceeding the calyx; 

 he says that »a marked distinction seems to lie in the form of the 



