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arnt icum. 1M. Flowers lateral: pothsing one way: leaves in distant 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. Melampyrum. 
ing at the front edge, divisible into 4 portions, but as Sages 
breaking in any other direction ; after flowering separatin 
2 or 4 parts: Sule c cor emake o the bend of the upper. 8 “ee 
the blossom, ming < one si anther, and presenting its sammit to 
the opening ot 3 Hen escapes. Seed-wessel a yellow. 
glandular na Bila at e ase on the fore part, doubled down, 
and so brittle as not to admit being straightened. The teeth at 
the base of the leaves, particularly of the leaves next to the 
23 sufficiently distinguish this from the M. sylvaticum, in 
which all the leaves are entire. The lower lip of the blossom 
in M. sylvaticum is tu downwards and outwards, but in 
M. pias it turns apweree and inwards. 
eadow Conm-w 
Var 2. Blossom wade, with 2 ‘yellow spots on the lens 
li 
is oF Woods aid thickets, i in soil that holds the wet, not uncoeds 
[Frequent = — and hedges ih a clayey soil in Nor- 
foll ‘and Suffolk. pw. In woods ntar the road from Bir- 
tention toa civil name tik: be en the occasion of error 
pairs : blossoms widely gaping. 
= bot. 804-—FI. dan. 145—Kniph. 9. 
Differs from M. pratense as follows: Stem more nodding. 
Leaves aly expanding. 2 Bloss, only half as long, entirely yellow, 
the tube white ; mouth or the opening between the 
2 seh Woods and shady i UDs. Of 
aym 
sta Siokarig at he head of Loch-Tay. Not common. A 
et rarer Pent than M. pratense, Bente [ Wick Clifts. 
Mr. Swayne A, June—Aug-t 
* Where this plant abounds, od butter i is yellow, and uncommonly 
good. Swine are be ond of the seeds. Shee ads and goats eat it. Cows 
are pips tond of it orses and swine evel use 1 é 
+ Cows, pratt and goats cat it; and with a plentiful allowance of 
it suon grow fat. 
