SCROPHULARIACE 85 
very handsome plant; Dauphiny, Lombardy. V. Teu- 
crium, L.; flowers large, bright blue, calyx 5-toothed; 
leaves ovate-lanceolate or cordate, sessile; grassy places, 
not uncommon. V. grostrata, L. (Pl. 94); calyx 5- 
toothed, flowers blue, stems slender, prostrate, branched, 
leaves linear-lanceolate; grassy slopes; Valais, Jura, 
Ziirich. V. austriaca, L. (dentata, Schm.); resembling 
the last, but stem less branched, ascending; Neuchatel, 
Styria, Carniola, Carinthia. 
13. MELAMPYRUM, L. 
Flowers solitary, axillary, or in leafy spikes; calyx 
tubular or campanulate, 4-toothed ; corolla 2-lipped, upper 
lip short, truncate; stamens 4, seated beneath the upper 
lip of the corolla, anthers hairy ; leaves narrow, opposite ; 
seeds I-2 in each cell. Annual herbs, parasitic on roots, 
black when dry. Most species of Cow-wheat are lowland 
plants. 
A. Flowers axillary :—J/. pratense, L.; calyx-teeth as 
long as corolla-tube, corolla pale yellow, anthers reddish- 
brown, bracts toothed, leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile, 
entire; woods, common. J/. commutatum, Tausch. ; 
similar, but calyx-teeth longer than corolla-tube, anthers 
yellow; bushy, local. JZ. sylvaticum, L.;-calyx-teeth 
triangular-lanceolate, spreading, shorter than corolla- 
tube, corolla bright yellow, bracts entire ; mountain woods, 
common. JZ. evicetorum, Kern.; similar, but calyx-teeth 
as long as corolla-tube, lower lip of corolla folded, upper 
bracts toothed; high; Tirol. WZ. nemorosum, L.; corolla 
orange-yellow, calyx villous, bracts cordate, the upper 
ones violet; Vevey, Bienne, Savoy, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 
