424 MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH SPECIES OF EUPHRASIA. 



(1837). — E. gracilis Nov. Fl. Suec. Mant. iii. p. 62. — Fries, Summ. 

 veg. Scand. i. p. 195 (1846). 



Exsicc. Reich, excurs. No. 242 (as E. micrantha). — Billot, 

 Flor. Gall, et Germ. exs. No. 1127 (as E. officinalis). — Fries, Herb. 

 Norm. ii. No. 30. — Kerner, in Schedas ad Flor. exsicc. Aust.-Hmig. 

 i. p. 117, No. 636 (as E. micrantha). 



Fig. Tab. 376. Tab. 379, fig. 216-222. Reich. Icon. Flor. 

 Germ, et Helv. xx. tab. mdccxxxii. fig. iv., v. et vii. — Sower. Eng Bot. 

 3rd ed. tab. dccccxci., with exception of fig. on right. — Wettst. 

 Mon. taf. iv. fig. 216-222. Taf. viii. fig. 2 & 3. 



Fl. June-Sept. 



DisTRiB. Widely distributed in North Europe, especially in 

 Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, North-east 

 France, Germany, Poland, Northern Hungary. 



Heaths, moors, commons, &c., on a light soil from Shetland to 

 Sussex ; very abundant throughout Scotland. I have no record 

 for Wales. 



DisTRiB. IN England and Wales : Berks, Greenham Common 

 (1835) ; Britten comm. Cumberland, Rosthwaite (1884). Surrey, 

 Whitley Common (1883) ; Eyre de Crespigny. Hindhead (1884) ; 

 Pirbright ; near Ewhurst (1884) ; W. H. Beehy. Milford Heath ; 

 E. S. Marshall. Esher {^^, 1848); H. C. Watson. Sussex, near 

 Eastdean (1881) ; F. C. S. Eoper. Hingston Down (1827) ; J. Woods 

 Herb. Warwick, Balsall Common (1882) ; H. Bromwich. 



DisTRiB. IN Scotland: "Aberdeen, Aberdeen (Nicholson; H. 

 Haus. ; Wettst. Mon. Glen Callater (1882) ; J. W. Frail {G. Nichol- 

 son). Braemar (1890). Argyll, " Scotstown Moor (Townsend ; 

 H. Fr.) " ; " Oban (Townsend ; H. T. Z.") ; Wettst. Mon. Compton 

 Quarries, luverary (1892) ; E. S. Marshall. Caithness, Reay (1889) ; 

 W. F. Marshall. Inverness, "Foyers (Townsend; H. T. Z.)"; 

 Wettst. Mon. Glenelg (1897). Glen Spean (1896); W.F.Marshall. 

 Kincraig (1891) ; A. Somerville (J. Britten comm.). Perth, Loch 

 Tummel (1865). Ross, Kinloch Ewe ; E. Salmon. Loch Maree 

 (1883); C. Bailey (J. Britten comm.). Whole neighbourhood of 

 Poolewe and Loch Maree (1897). Shetland, Shetland (1890) ; 

 Collafirth in Ollaberry, Northmaveu (1881) ; IF. H. Beeby. Suther- 

 land, Melvich (1889); W.F.Marshall. Bettyhill (1897). Melvich 

 and between that and Armidale (1897). 



DiSTRiB. in Ireland : Meath, Oldcastle (1896) ; R. Lloyd Fraeger. 



E. gracilis is one of the most marked species of the genus. Its 

 slender erect form, small leaves and flowers, and usually dark- 

 coloured stem and leaves are very marked characters. It was first 

 recognized by Fries, and described by him as a distinct species in 

 the following terms in the ' Mantissa ' : — " Caule tereti supra medium 

 fiorifero, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis utriuque tricrenatis, floralibus 

 basi cuueatis acuminato-dentatis in apicem floriferis, corollse tubo 

 labium superante, galea porrecta subintegra, fauce glabra, capsula 

 lineari-oblonga truucata." He says he at first confounded it with 

 E. Salisburgensis. He dwells particularly on the terete stem, the 

 lower half bearing no flowers, and on the calyx not being "nigro- 

 punctato," but " epunctato." The leaves and bracts of the Scotch 



