HKATHS AND M(X)RS 



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3-an.srlcd. The plant is i-,', in. in height, and 

 (lowers in June anil July, being a herbaceous 

 annual. 



Orhek Gentianace.b 



Least Yellow Gentian (Cicendia f>usilla, 

 Griseb. ). — The habitat ol this plant is sandy com- 

 mons, or waste broken jjround, or where the 

 ground has been flooded. The habit is erect. 

 The stems are branched, and numerous. The 

 leaves are narrow, linear to lance-shaped. The 

 flowers are pale-pink. The parts are in fours or 

 lives. The flower-stalks are slender. The calv.x- 

 lobes are erect, awl-like, closely appressed. The 

 corolla-sejjments are blunt-pointed, half as long 

 as the tube. The stigma is j-lobed. The capsule 

 is spindle-sh.iped. The plant is 1-4 in. in height. 

 It flowers late in .August and September, and is 

 a herbaceous annual. 



Marsh Gentian (Gentiana Pnctimonanlhe, L.) 

 — The habitat of this plant is moist heaths, turfy 

 heaths, and bogs. The habit is erect, or ascend- 

 ing. The stem is slender, scaly below, usually 

 simple, leafy above. The leaves are linear to 

 oblong, blunt, with 1-3 veins. The flowers are 

 few, terminal or axillary, borne on short stalks, 

 large, deep-blue within, with a broad green band 

 down the centre of each lobe. The calyx is in- 

 versely conical, has 2 bracts, with 5 linear, blunt, 

 equal segments. The corolla is narrowly bell- 

 shaped, with no hairs in the throat. The capsule 

 is stalked. The plant is 4-18 in. in height. It 

 flowers in .August and September, and is a herb- 

 aceous perennial. 



Order Convolvllace.« 



Heath Dodder {Cuscufa Epilhymum, Murr.). — 

 The habitat is heaths. The plant is a parasite on 

 heath, gorse, &c. The flowers are pale rose- 

 colour. The calyx is reddish, shorter than the 

 corolla tube. The corolla is cylindrical, with 

 spreading lobes, prominent scales nearly closing 

 the tube. The plant is 6 in. to 2 ft. long, flower- 

 ing in .August and September, and is an annual 

 parasite. 



Order ScrophilariacejE 



Jersey Toadflax (IJnaria Pclisscriana, Mill.). — 

 The habitat of this plant is heathy places, and the 

 plant is very rare. The habit is erect. The plant 

 has short barren stolons below, with one or more 

 stems from one root. The plant is devoid of hair. 

 The leaves are oblong on the stolons, opposite, 

 and in whorls of 3 or 4, the stem-leaves scattered, 

 linear, blunt, alternate. The sterile branches are 

 radical and prostrate, with ternate, lance-shaped, 

 ovate leaves. The flowers arc few, purple, with 

 dark veins in a short raceme, on stalks as long as 

 or less than the bracts. The sepals are linear, 

 awl-like, acute, shorter than the spur, twice as 

 long as the capsule, which is broad and 2-lobed. 

 The seeds are nearly flat. The corolla has a 

 spur parallel to the tube, which is acute, winged, 

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tubercl(<l on one face. The wing is fringed with 

 teeth. The plant is 6-12 in. high, flowering in 

 June and July, .ind is a herbaceous annual. 



Cut-leaved Speedwell (I'croiiica triphyllos, L.). 

 —The habitat ol this plant is s.mdy fields, dry, bare 

 heaths, and waste placis. The habit is erect, or 

 nearly so, the stem rigid, with spreading branches, 

 downy, and glandular. The small leaves are bracts 

 above, cut, the lower stalked, finger-shaped. The 

 flowers are dark - blue, in .1 raceme with few 

 flowers, somewhat spiked. The calyx is shorter 

 than the flower-stalk. The capsule is many-seeded, 

 the seeds hollow on one siih-. The plant is 3-8 in. 

 in height, and flowers in May and June, being an 

 annu.il. 



Vernal Speedwell {Veronica vcma, L.).— The 

 habitat ol this plant is sandy fields and bare heaths. 

 The habit is erect, the stem simple or branched 

 below, hairy or downy, and glandular above, as 

 in other heath plants. The leaves are deeply 

 divided to live base, the lower stalked, coarsely 

 toothed, lobed, the upper bract-like, lance-shaped. 

 The flowers are deep blue, with darker lines, the 

 corolla small, the calyx longer than the flower- 

 stalk, the raceme somewhat spiked with many 

 flowers, loose. The capsule is flattened at the 

 margin, fringed with hairs on the keel, inversely 

 heart-shaped, the seeds flat. The plant is 2-4 in. 

 high, llciuirs in May and June, and is an annual. 



Spiked Speedwell ( J'eroiu'ca spicala, L.).— The 

 habitat of this plant is dry calcareous places, 

 chalky pastures, chalky heaths. The habit is 

 prostrate, then ascending. The rootstock is creep- 

 ing. The stem is branched below, stout, leafy. 

 The radical leaves have a wedge-shaped base, 

 being blunt, and are more or less stalkless, toothed 

 above the middle, or scalloped, entire at the end, 

 oblong, leathery. The flowers are borne in a 

 dense spike (hence spicata) or terminal raceme, 

 and have ovate to lance -shaped bracts, longer 

 than the blunt sepals, fringed with hairs. The 

 corolla has the tube as broad as long, the throat 

 bearded. The lobes are narrow, acute. The 

 stamens are very long. The anthers are large 

 and purple. The style is long. The capsule is 

 ovate, with a notch and long style, downy, as 

 long as the sepals. The plant is 4-12 in. high, 

 flowering in July and August, and is a herbaceous 

 perennial. 



Euphrasia Rostkoviana, Hayne. — The habit of 

 this species is that of a hemi-parasite. The stem 

 is tall, branched below, glandular, the hairs long 

 and scattered. The leaves are plaited, not more 

 than twice as long as broad, finely furrowed, 

 clothed with white bristles, and glandular, the 

 hairs long and wavy. The stem-leaves are ovate, 

 acute, with a short point, the teeth, 6-12, being 

 acute. The floral leaves are broadly ovate, with 

 as many teeth. The spike is long. The flowers 

 are white with violet markings. The calyx is 

 bristly and glandular, with triangular to lance- 

 shaped segments. Thelubeofthe corollalengthens 

 after flowering, the upper lip having the lobes 

 turned back, notched or divided into two. The 

 fruit is elliptical, notched, fringed with h.iirs, and 



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