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MONOGKAPH of the BRITISH SPECIES of EUPHRASIA 



PBEFACED BY AN EpiTOME OF PrOF. WeTTSTEIN'S ViEWS ON THE DeVELOPJIENT 



AND Distribution of the European Species. 



By Fkederick Townsend, M.A., P.L.S, 



(Plates 374-80.) 



(Continued from p. 406.) 



5. Euphrasia curta 



Fries, Novit. Flor. Suec. ed. 2, p. 198, 1828.— pro var. Wettst. 

 Mon. p. 128. 



Caulis erectus, crassus, rarius tenuis, plerumque in parte in- 

 feriore usque ad medium caulis ramosus, 3-40 cm. altus (ijlerumque 

 10 cm), rubescens vel fuscescens, pilis crispulis albis reversis pube- 

 scens, ramis erectis vel erecto-pateutibus, bine iude iterum ramosis 

 oppositis. Folia infima late ovata obtusa, utrinque dentibus 1-3 

 obtusis, media at superiora ovata opposita acuta, basin versus latis- 

 sima, utrinque dentibus acutis, sed 7ion aristatis 4-7. Bracte® 

 suboppositffi latitudine folia caulina superantes sed breviores, saBpe 

 fere orbiculares, utrinque dentibus 4-7 acutis no7i aristatis vel in 

 aristarn brevem aheuntibus, patentes vel arcitato-reciirvce, fructu sub- 

 erectffi. Folia omnigi griseo-viridia, infra rugosa, apicem caulis versus 

 saepe smararjdino niyricantia, in pagina superiore et inferiore setidis 

 albis dense hirsuta vel pubescentia reducta saltern in regione marginali 

 pagincB siiperioris, inmargine et in nervis pagince inferioris setiilis parvis 

 ubsita. Calyx totus vel saltem in margine et nervis albo-setulosus, 

 fructifer subinflatus, dentibus brevibus. Corolla circa 4-5 mm 

 longa, labio superiore bilobo, lobis emarginatis vel denticulatis 

 labio inferiore trilobo, lobis emarginatis, albida vel pallide lilacina 

 striis caeruleis et macula lutea in labio inferiore notata, rarius tota 

 cserulea vel ametbystina vel labio superiore pallide lilacina, et labio 

 inferiore albido. Capsula cuneato-obovata, matura calycem aqiians 

 vel parnm super ans, truncata vel subemarginata, margine longe ciliata, 

 caeterum pilosa rarius glabra. 



Syn. E. parvijlora Fries Summa Veg. Scand. i. p. 195 (1846) 

 in part. — Babington in Journ. of Linn. Soc. xi. p. 820 (1871). — • 

 E. parviflora var. curta Fries Summa Veg. Scand. i. p. 19 (1846j 

 in part, excl. Syn. 



Exsicc. Fries Herb. Norm. Fasc. iv. n. 26. 



Tab. 375. Tab. 378, fig. 185-193. Reicb. Icon. Flor. Genii, 

 et Helv. XX. tab. mdccxxxii. fig. vi. — Wettst. Mon. taf. iv. fig. 

 185-193, taf. vii. fig. 11. 



Fl. July-October. 



DisTRiB. Sweden, Norway, England, Scotland, Denmark, 

 Finland, West Russia, Nortb and East Germany, Bobemia, Tatra 

 Mountains, Iceland. 



DisTRiB. IN England and Wales: Anglesea, below Holyhead 

 (1888); J. C. Mehill (det. Wettst.). 



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