FE 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. Melampyrum. 
spea r-shaped, wing-cleft, with teeth at the base, entire upwards. 
Woopwarp. Blass. yellow and dusky : 
Purple Cow-awheat. Cornfields. Near ‘Lycham m, Norfolk; 
Horsley Bath, near Beeston Castle, Cheshire. Between Nor- 
wich and Cossey. [Costesey, nes Norwich. Mr, Crowe. Bix- 
ley, near Norwich. Mr. Woopwarp.] A. July.* 
soms close 
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M. Flowers lateral, pointing one way: leaves in distant praten’se, 
pai . 
E. bot. 113-Kuiph, 11-Wale. M. sylvaticum-Ger. 84, 1 
and 9—Clus. ii. 44, 2-Lab. obs. Oo Le Ce : 36. 9-Ger, 
em, 91. 1—Park. 1326. 1-H. ox. xi. 23. 3. 
Lower lip of the pomiee straight, not bent downwards, as in 
M, sylvaticum. Sr. not gaping as in M. rival. 
Linn. - Whole plant Saackenii brownish, beginning to flower 
early and continuing to flower all the summer, growing more and 
more b » in the manner of M. cristatum, and in the latter 
part of the yeat extremely branched. Branches weak, opposite. 
Leaves on very short pene sala stiffish, from the bosom of the 
lower ones an egg-shaped glan d, possibly an an. ahortine igi 3 
those towards the base of the branches strap-spear-shaped, the 
upper spear-shaped, nes, = blackish Loom hg 
sometimes a tinge of purple. Only the foral-/eaves too 
that early in the spring very few will be visible, but later they 
are very numerous, the branches extending in length and conti- 
nuing to flower the e is very long; er 
spapeds with oly 2 or 3 teeth at the base; the per nearly with 
Winged at the base, with long aw/-shaped reflected teethy 
0. 
eatly tapering towards the point, all serrated, 
but the serratures Prag fine, and the aie of the leaves 
The seeds, when ground with com, give a bitterness and greyis sh 
cast to the bread, but do not make it unwholesome, Cows and ies 
€at it, Sheep refuse it, 
