MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH SPECIES OF EUPHRASIA. 399 



ai-iHtatis vel acutis utrinque 4-7. Folia omnia viridia, in specimini- 

 bus siccis interdum nigricantia subtus plana nitida vel in speci- 

 minibus locorum aridorum plicato-striata, gJaJierrma, rarius in 

 pagina superiore et in margine pilis brevissimis aspera. Spica 

 initio cunden.sata mox valde elovgata, frucfcifera saspe in parte inferiore 

 calyces fructiferos solum gerens. Flores subsessiles. Calyx tjlabcr 

 vel setulis niinutis obsitus, fructifer non accretus. Corolla 6-10 mtn. 

 longa, labio superiore bilobo, lobis denticulatis, rarius bilobis, labio 

 inferiore trilobo, lobis emarginatis. Corolla plerumque pallide 

 violacea, macula flava in labio inferiore et striis Cceruleis vel pur- 

 pureis notata, rarius cterulea vel albida. Capsula cuneato-obovata, 

 angusta, truncata vel subemarginata, cahjcis denies non superans, 

 margine longe ciliata cteterum pilosa vel glabrata. 



Syn. E. officinalis B, montana /5 cucullata Fries Novit. Flor. 

 Novit. Flor. Suec. ed. 2, p. 198 (1828) ex parte. — E. nenioiosa B. 

 intermedia, a. vulgaris et /3 alpestris Soyer Willemet sur VEuphrasie 

 offic. et les especes vois. p. 28 (Mem. d. 1. soc. roy. d. so. de Nancy, 

 1833-34).— £". officinalis Hayne, Arzneigew. ix. t. 8 (1823).— /'A 

 officinalis /3. resp. b. nenwrosa Koch Synop. Flor. Germ, et Helv. 

 ed. i. p. 545 (1837). — E. officinalis J, nemorosa Eeich. Icon. Fl. 

 Germ, et Helv. xx. p. 58 (1862). — E. ericetorum Jord. in Reut. 

 Compt. rend. d. 1. soc. Haller. 1854-56. — E. condensata Jord. Pug. 

 plant, nov. p. 135. — E. stricta A. Kerner, Schedje ad Fl. exsicc. 

 Aust.-Hmig. i. p. 41 (1881). 



Exsicc. Kern. Fl. exsicc. Austro-Hung. No. 147. — Schultz, 

 Herb. norm. nov. ser. Cent. i. No. 113 (as E. ericetorum). — Billot, 

 Flor. Gall, et Germ. Excurs. No. 62 (as E. nemorosa). 



Tab. 374. Tab. 378, fig. 135-146. Hayne, Arzneigew. ix. tab. 8 

 (1823). — Reich. Icon. Flor. Germ, et Helv. xx. tab. mdccxxxi. 

 — Wettst. Mon. Taf. iii, fig. 135-146, Taf. vii, fig. 5, 6. 



Fl. June-Get. 



Distribution. Mid Europe; Spain; France; Belgium; Switzer- 

 land ; Germany ; South Sweden and Norway ; Austria ; Upper 

 Italy ; Northern Balkan peninsula ; West and South Russia. Not 

 ascending into the alpine region. 



The distribution of E. stricta in Europe would lead us to expect 

 its occurrence in Great Britain though it has not yet been detected. 

 It is a variable species and many varieties have been described and 

 named by various botanists. Prof. Wettstein observes that in damp 

 and cool localities the plant is smaller, has broader flatter and 

 more shortly toothed leaves, is more branched ; that in drier locali- 

 ties the plant is taller, sometimes less and sometimes more branched, 

 and usually the leaves are narrower, plicate beneath and with more 

 aristate teeth. From E. brevipila it may be distinguished by the 

 absence of glandular hairs ; from E. Salisburgensis by its capsule 

 being furnished with long erect hairs ; from E. nemorosa by the 

 more aristate character of the teeth of the leaves and bracts, its 

 less branched stem, its entire or subemargiuate capsule, exceeded 

 by the calyx teeth and by its suberect and straight (not subarcuate 

 or recurved) bracts. 



Three names which have been applied to this species re(][uire 



