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their obtuse teeth to some forms of U. minima. Furtlier information 

 on the \Euphrasi(B of this district is desirable. 



Scotland. — Inverness. Glen Spean, Aug. 1899. ^Argyle. 

 Oban, Aug. 1899. Sti-ong plants with 2-4 branches from near the 

 base of the stem. Normal plants were gathered at Cam Glen, 

 Buchaille Etive Mor, Ballachulish and on Ben Cruaclian. All 

 these were named by Townsend. — ^Ross. Wet bogg^- moors east of 

 and near Poolewe, Aug. 1897, F. Townsend (B. E. C.).— W. Suther- 

 land. Near Betty HUl, July 1897, E. S. Marshall (B. E. C). 



Ireland. — Galway. Boggy slope on Urrisbeg, Roundstone, Aug. 

 1902. Small plants not exceeding 8 cm. high. — Clifden and Wood- 

 ford, Aug. 1907. 



15. E. MINIMA Jacq. Stem simple or branched below the middle, 

 internodes, in the British forms, generally short. Fruiting-spike 

 with long or short internodes. Lower cauline leaves obovate-cuneate 

 with a large obtuse terminal tooth and 1-2 ovate obtuse teeth on 

 each side. Bracts ovate, obtuse or subacute with 2-3 rarely 4 ovate 

 or lanceolate obtuse or acute teeth on eacli side. Flowers yellow, 

 violet or white. Capsule nearly equalling or exceeding the capsule. 

 Leaves, bracts and cah^x nearly glabrous or minutely setidose. 

 Wetts. Mon. t. viii. figs. 10-14 ; Hiern in Journ. Bot. xlvii. 165, 

 t. 497 a (1909). 



Wettstein describes the mature capsules as exceeding the calyx, 

 but, in man}^ undoubted examples of E. minima gathered in the 

 Western Alps, the capsules usually fall short of the calyx, and rarely 

 exceed it. 



Somerset. Great Cornham, Exmoor, perhaps nearly 1250 ft. alt., 

 24th August, 1908, W. F. Hiern. Corolla yellow. See Mr. HiernV 

 elaborate paper on the discovery of JE. minima as a British plant, in 

 this Journal, loc. cit. 



Yar. NANA Rouy? Flore de France, xi. p. 155 (1900). Stem 

 8-6 cm. high, simple, lower internodes very short so that the leaves 

 are crowded below. Fruiting-spike with short or long internodes. 

 Leaves 3 or at most 4 mm. long, the lower obovate cuneate, with 

 a large rounded terminal tooth and 1 small ovate tooth on each 

 side, the upper with 1-2 teeth on each side. Bracts ovate with 1-2 

 rarely 3 triangular or oblong-lanceolate obtuse or subacute teeth on 

 each side. Coi-olla 5 mm. long, white or lilac and white, with violet 

 veins and a yellow spot. Capsule generally exceeding calvx-teeth. 

 large in proportion to the size of the plant. Leaves, bracts and 

 calyx minutely setulose. 



On the boggy banks of a rill above Elndiow, Griesdale, West- 

 morland, Aug. 12th, 1915, and (the taller form) on slopes above the 

 east shore of UUswater, below Place Fell. 



Rouy's description of var. nana is as follows : — " Tigede 3-5 cent., 

 simple, filiform ; feuilles tres petites, paucidentees, a dents obtuses ; 

 bractees crenelees, a dents obtuses." With this, as far as it goes, the 

 Westmorland plants agree exactly. Bearing in mind that Wettstein 

 considers E. scotica to be nearly identical with E. minima (see Mon, 

 p. 171), the Westmorland plants differ from the former in the wery 

 short lower internodes, in their small size and in the still more obtuse- 



