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The spike is dense as a rule. Tlic flowers are 

 whitish. The bracts are broadly ovate, acute, 

 with 8-14 acute teeth. The calyx has small stifl 

 bristles, and gflandular and lance-shaped, n.irrowly- 

 pointed teeth. The corolla is small, the lobes of 

 the upper lip entire or notched. The capsule is 

 elliptic, notched, iVingred with hairs. 



Euphrasia /buiaensis. Towns. — This plant is 

 without hairs or slijihtly, softly downy. The stem 

 is stout, simple, or but little branched. The leaves 

 bear (ew hairs. The stem-leaves are few, distant, 

 ovate, blunt, with 4-6 blunt teeth. The spike 

 lengthens a little. The flowers are purple. The 

 bracts are not so large as in the last, and rather 

 distant, sometimes acute, with acute-pointed teeth. 

 The calyx is devoid of hairs, or there may be a 

 few bristles, and the teeth are triangular to lance- 

 shaped. The corolla is small, with the lobes of the 

 upper lip entire. The capsule is elliptic, long", 

 notched, fringed with hairs, longer than the calyx- 

 teeth. 



Euphrasia salisburgensis. — The habitat of this 

 plant is limestone pavements and cliffs, walls, 

 sand-dunes, or non-calcareous rocks. As a rule 

 it appears to be a lowland plant, but ascends to 

 300 metres. The plant belongs to the group with 

 narrow leaves, usually more than twice as long as 

 broad. The stem is simple or branched below. 

 The leaves are without hairs, or have few, V'ery 

 small, bristles. The stem-leaves are lance-shaped, 

 2-5 times as long as broad. They are very acute 

 with 4-6 distant, long, spreading, awned teeth. 

 The spike finally is much lengthened. The 

 flowers are white or bluish-purple or violet. The 

 bracts are ovate to lance-shaped, with 4-10 (usually 

 6) teeth, similar. The calyx is devoid of hairs, or 

 has a few very small bristles, with triangular to 

 lance-shaped teeth. The corolla is small, the lobes 

 of the upper lip turned back, notched, or with a 

 few small teeth. The capsule is wedge-shaped to 

 long, blunt to notched, without hairs, or slightly 

 hairy above. 



Order Oroba.vchace^ 



Broomrape {Orobancke ametkystea, Th.). — This 

 plant is a native species, parasitical on Dauctis 

 gummifer, in habitats near the sea, as a rule. 

 The habit is like that of Common Broomrape, 

 with which it was united as a sub-species. The 

 corolla is purple or white, and much curved below, 

 the upper part almost straight, extending forwards 

 at first, bent down after flowering. The middle 

 lobe of the lower lip is the largest, serving as an 

 alighting-place for insects. The lobes of the 

 stigma arc partly attached, and it is purple, 

 reddish-brown, or yellow. The sepals are entire, 

 egg-shaped, then awl-like at the tip, many-veined. 

 The plaiA is 6-24 in. in height, and flowers in 

 June and July, being an annual. 



Order Plantaginace^c 



Buckshorn Plantain ( /'/nn/«^o Coronopus, L.). — 

 The habitat of this plant is all the maritime coasts. 



dry and gravelly commons inland, gravelly barren 

 spots near the sea, and it becomes more maritime 

 northwards. The plant has the rosette habit. 

 The plant is downy, with long hairs, but varies 

 much in this respect and in size. The leaves ,-ire 

 line.ir, deeply divided nearly to the base, or toothed, 

 I -ribbed, and may be entire. The scape is round, 

 hairy, ascending, equalling or exceeding the leaves. 

 The spikes are slender, many-flowered, short or 

 long, cylindrical. The bracts arc awl-like, erect, 

 the base egg-shaped, exceeding the sepals, which 

 are blunt. The lateral sepals have a membranous 

 wing fringed with hairs. The corolla-tube is 

 downy or hairless. The stamens are pale-yellow. 

 The seeds are pale-brown, with white extensions 

 at each end, and mucilaginous, adhering to the 

 soil when they fall. The plant is 1-8 in. high, 

 flowering between June and August, and is a herb- 

 aceous annual. 



Order Illecebrace^ 



Whorled Knot Grass (Illecebrum verlicillalum, 

 L.). — The habitat of this plant is wet sandy and 

 boggy places. The habit is prostrate, then ascend- 

 ing. The stem is slender, hairless, and the plant 

 is branched from the root. The branches are 

 ascending, covered with leaves and flowers in 

 tufts. The leaves are round, variable, egg-shaped, 

 spoon-shaped, oblong, hairless. The flowers are 

 in whorls (hence verticillaluni) in the axils, small, 

 with a short stalk, not so long as the leaves. The 

 plant is 2-8 in. high, flowering in July and August, 

 and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Strapwort (Corrigiola lilloralis, L.). — The habit- 

 at of this plant is sandy shores and dry places, 

 damp sandy spots near the sea. The habit is 

 prostrate or ascending. The stems are many, 

 slender, leafy, amongst the flowers. The leaves 

 are linear, lance-shaped, narrowed into an ob- 

 scure stalk. The stipules are half arrow-shaped, 

 oblong. The flowers are white, stalked, small, 

 crowded, in small clusters, or terminal cymes. 

 The petals and sepals are the same size. There 

 are 3 stigmas, and the anthers are small. The 

 plant is 3-9 in. in length, and flowers between 

 July and September, being a herbaceous annual. 



Smooth Rupturewort (Hcrniaria glabra, L.). — 

 The h.ibitat of this plant is sandy soils and dry 

 places. The habit is prostrate or subterranean. 

 The stems are herbaceous, numerous, tufted, 

 hairless or downy, clothed with bent-down hairs. 

 The autumnal shoots are ascending, irregularly 

 branched, with spreading, not overlapping leaves. 

 The lateral branches resemble leafy spikes from 

 the close clusters. The plant is pale yellowish- 

 green. The root is woody. The leaves are ob- 

 long, hairless, narrowed below. The flower: are 

 small, green, stalkless, in axillary spike -like 

 clusters. The calyx is hairless or thinly hairy. 

 The fruit is i -seeded. The plant is 4-6 in. long, 

 flowering in July and August, and is a herbaceous 

 annual, biennial, or perennial. 



Hertiiaria ciliata, Bab. — This plant was re- 

 garded as a variety of the last, than which it is 



