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6. EUPHRASU OCCIDENTALIS 



Wettst. Mon. p. 135. 



Caulis ascendens, crassus, in speciminibus visis ca-4-7 cm 

 altus infra medium ramis arcuato-erectis, fuscescens pilis albidis 

 crispulis reversis obsitus. Folia infima in speciminibus omnibus a 

 me visis evanida ; superiore ovata, acuta, dentibus utrinqHe 8-5 

 acutis, hracte<B dense iinhricatcB late ovatse acutfe, dentibus utrinque 

 4-7 acutis, folia omnia sicca plicato-furcata tola setis parvis strictis et 

 insuper pilis glanduUferis brevibus obsita. Spica non elongata densa. 

 Calyx indumento ei foliorum conformi dentibus lanceolatis acumi- 

 natis, fructifer vix accretus. Corolla parva, 4-5 mm. longa, tubo 

 incluso, labio superiore bilobo lobis integris, labio inferiore trilobo 

 lobis emarginatis, albida (? ex sicco). Capsula elliptica, emargi- 

 nata, margine ciliata, calycem aequans vel superans. 



Tabs. 374-375. Tab. 378, fig. a. 1-8. Wettst. Mon. taf. xi. 

 fig. 13. 



DisTRiB. North-west France, England, Scotland, Ireland. 



DiSTRiB. IN England; Cornwall, Kynance Cove, Helston; James 

 Cunnack (= E. officinalis var. tetraquetra J. Cunnack, No. 921, June 

 1879), det. Wettstein. St. Mary's, Scilly (1862), det. Wettstein. 

 Heath near Hayle, W. Cornwall ; J. Groves (1880), det. Wettstein. 

 Land's End (ex Herb. E. F. Linton ; E. maritima, fide Mr. J. Ralfs, 

 legit H. S. Thompson, July 1888), rfei. Wettstein. Devon, Sandhills 

 at mouth of the Avon, Bigbury parish (Sept. 1894) ; E. S. Marshall, 

 det. Wettstein. Hants, Freshwater Downs and St. Catherine's 

 Cliff, I. of W. (1881-83), det. Wettstein. 



DisTRiB. IN Scotland: Inverness, Morar Bay (1897). Suther- 

 land, Melvich to Bettyhill (1897). 



DisTRiB. IN Ireland: Cork, Poorhead (1895); ii. A. Phillips 

 (det. Wettstein). 



Prof. Wettstein terms this a provisional species, as when he 

 went to press with his Monograph he had only seen specimens in 

 the Botanical Museum of Florence, from the island of Ouessant in 

 France, though he says some other specimens from the moun- 

 tainous pastures of Campania, "alia pianca de Cordoui" presso 

 M. Cavallo, Sept. 1872 (ig. Ferracciano) very closely resemble 

 those from Ouessant. Prof. Wettstein has since named a plant, 

 E. oecidentalis, which was gathered by Mr. H. S. Thompson in 

 January 1888 at the Land's End Cornwall, and named E. maritima 

 by Mr. J. Ealfs. Mr. Druce of Oxford also informs me he has 

 specimens from Devonshire which Prof. Wettstein thinks may be 

 E. oecidentalis. The character of the Is. and bracts of the Cornish 

 plant is as follows, " folia infima subcuneato-ovata vel cuneato- 

 oblonga obtusa utrinque dentibus 1-2 obtusis, bractea) inferiores, 

 ovata) vel subcuneato-ovatfe obtusa3 utrinque dentibus 2 obtusis, 

 bractea; intermediiis et superiores subcuneata} ovata) obtusa?, vel 

 acuta) utrinque dentibus 3-4 acutis." The Is. and calyx are very 

 slightly hirsute. Prof. Wettstein says E. oecidentalis comes very 

 near E. curta, in habit, in the size and form of the flowers and in 

 the hirsute leaves and calyx, but the presence of glandular hairs 



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