BRTTISH ErPIIKAST.E 



apiculate teeth. Leaves and bracts glabrous rarely pubescent, 

 nigrescent. Corolla small, white, lilac or dark violet. Capsule, 

 in tlie specimens seen, generally shorter than the calyx, but according 

 to Wettstein equalling or exceeding it. Wetts. Mon. t. viii. fig. 2 ; 

 Towns. Mon. t. 87(5. 



ExGLAXD. — CoHXWALL. Kvnance Downs, July 1916, Mrs. Wedf/- 

 wood. Stem 8-6 cm. high, seldom branched, internodes much shorter 

 than in northern plants, leaves blackish when dry, flowers with violet 

 upper and white lower lip. — E. Somerset. On Exmoor above Porlock, 

 Sept. 1910. Stem slender or comparatively stout, flowers rather large, 

 blue. — Dorset. Stepe Heath, Corfe Castle, June 1916, I. M. Boper. 

 Stem and internodes nearly as short as in the Kynance Downs plant, 

 but more branched ; flowers dark violet. — CarxaryOjST. Lake Padarn, 

 Llanberis, Aug. 1916, Mrs. W^edf/wood. Similar to Scotch plants, 

 but some of the specimens have long, narrow leaves nearly 12 mm. 

 long. — -Westmorland. Bank of a rill above Ebnhow, Grisedale, 

 and slopes above the east shore of Ullswater, Aug. 1915. Small 

 plants with ver}^ small leaves ; flowers lilac and white. 



ScoTLAN^^D. — Inverness. Glen Roy, Glen Spean and Glen Nevis, 

 Aug. 1899. — Arcitle. Ben Cruachan, Glen Etive and Island of 

 Kerrara, Oban Bay, Aug. 1899. All these Scotch plants were 

 confirmed by Townsend. 



Ireland. — Galway. Woodford, Aug. 1907. Stem tall, attaining 

 22 cm., simple or with 1 or 2 branches, flowers large, blue. This 

 may be var. jwimaria Fr. ; the flowers are like those of specimens 

 from Kinlochewe which Mr. Townsend referred to this variety. 

 Wettstein describes it as having flowers entirely violet and leaves 

 tinged with red. The Irish plant has the leaves and bracts rather 

 greener than usual, and the upper bracts with subulate, aristate 

 teeth. — On the banks of the Shannon, liossmore, Aug. 1907. This 

 also has bracts with subulate, aristate teeth ; the flowers vary from 

 white to lilac and violet. — Moors near Koundstone, Aug. 1902, and 

 on Urrisbeg, Aug. 1907. On Urrisbeg also there occuiTed plants 

 which may be xE. ArescJioiigii Wetts. — E. ciirtax gracilis. The 

 habit is that of E. {jracilis^ but the leaves, bracts an4 calyx are 

 clothed with fairly long hairs as in E. curta. The latter plant, 

 however, was not seen on Urrisbeg. — Clifden, Aug. 1907. 



14. E. scoTTCA Wetts. Plant greener and stem more often 

 simple or with fewer branches than E. gracilis, and consequently 

 the fruiting-spike often longer in proportion to the stem ; inter- 

 nodes long. Leaves and bracts 5-7 mm. long ; teeth of the upper 

 bracts ti'iangular, lanceolate, or subulate and shortly aristate. 

 Flowering-spike broader at the top and appearing subcapitate. 

 Leaves, bracts and calvx glabrous or minutely ciliate and setulose. 

 Wetts. Mon. t. viii. fig^ 8 ; Towns. Mon. t. 876. 



Wales,— Carnarvon. Cwm Idwal, Aug. 1909, G. Goode. 

 Weak plants 8 cm. high ; s))ike with long Internodes and few 

 flowers; leaves and bracts with 1-8 ovate, obtuse rarely acute 

 teeth on each side, sparingly and minutely setulose. Flowers nearly 

 white. I refer this to E. scotica with considerable doubt, as it 

 bears some i-eseniblanee in the shape of the leaves and bracts and 



