442 EUPHRASIA SALISBUKGENSIS FUNK, NATIVE IN IRELAND. 



Zelandicfe, i)lurimae perennes, nonnullfe solum annuso, anthers 

 omnes subfequaliter mucronatna. 



§ 1. Perennes. 



§ 2. Annu(B. 



Sectio II. — Trifid^ Bentb. Folia trifida, rarius solum ad basin 

 utrinque dente parvo aucta itaque quinquefida. Antberfe glabrre 

 vel glabresceutes. Species extratropicas Americae australis. 



§ 1. Perennes. 



Subsection I. includes all the European forms, but the repre- 

 sentatives of the genus hitherto recorded as natives of Great Britain 

 and Ireland belong to the first two groups only, viz. ParvijiorfB and 

 Grandifiorce, and there was no representative of the third group, 

 AngiistifolicB. Through the discovery of E. Salisburgensis we now 

 have in the British Islands representatives of all three groups of 

 Semicalcarata;. 



The original description is found in "Nachricht von einigen 

 seltenen gesammelten Pflanzen," in Hoppe, Taschcnhuch (1794), 

 pp. 184 and 190, H. Ch. Funk, of which the following is a trans- 

 lation : — 



" Euphrasia Salisburgensis — a new German i)lant. It has a 

 great similarity to K. officinalis, but as compared with it differs in 

 several points. The leaves are longer and narrower, the teeth are 

 very acute, and they are also patent. The flower is smaller, and 

 the whole plant is smooth " [Botanische Taschenhuch far die Anfiingcr 

 dieser Wissenschaft nnd Ayothekerkunst (1794), Kegensburg, p. 190). 



In Braune, ' Saltz. Ft. ii. p. 217, t. 1, f. 1 (1797), the plant is 

 described at greater length, headed by a short diagnosis in Latin, 

 viz. " Foliis alternis, lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, fere setace-dentatis," 

 Funk is quoted. The locality given is " Am Ofenlochberge, Kapu- 

 zinerberge, und Viehberge." The plant is described as branched, 

 the branches alternate, erect. Braune asks, " Is this a var. only?" 

 but he seems to deem it more likely a species, as he found it, he 

 states, growing in sandy ground with E. officinalis, the only other 

 species he gives. The plate shows a small plant 4^ in. in height, 

 with six corymbose erect or ascending branches from near the base. 

 The leaves have two teeth on either side. 



A figure of E. Salisburgensis is also given in Eeichenbach's 

 Deutschlands Flora, 109, mdccxx, ii. 3-5. 



The following is the description as given by Prof. Wettstein in 

 his monograph : — 



"Euphrasia Salisburgensis Funk. — Caulis erectus, simplex vel 

 in parte inferiore ramosus, 1-30 cm. altus, rubescens, pilis crispulis 

 reversis eglandulosis pubescens, rainis erectis, inferioribus oppo- 

 sitis, superioribus alternantibus. Folia caulina inferiora opposita, 

 cuneiformia, ohtiisa utrinque dentihus 1-2 obtusis ; folia caulina supe- 

 riora alternantia, lanceolata, in parte media latitudine maxima, 

 longitiidine latitudinem 2-5-plo superante, plerumque acntissima, iitrin- 

 que dentihus aristatis patentibus 2-8. Bracteae alternantes latitudine 

 folia caulina superantes, sed eis similes, in triente inferiore latis- 

 sima), utrinque dentibus 2-5 {plerumque 3) elongatis. Folia omnia 



