CLASS XIV. ORDEE II.] BARTSIA. 849 



Habitat.— Woods, groves, and shady places; common, especially in 

 a light soil. 



Annual ; flowering in July and August. 



This is the most common of our species, and like the others turns 

 black in drying. The bracteas are frequently all entire, and the lower 

 pair of leaves are ovate, spatulate. 



4. M. sylva'ticum, Linn. (Fig. 981.) Lesser Jioivered wood Coiv- 

 Wheat. Spike of a few distant pairs of flowers ; bracteas lanceolate, 

 entire ; corolla scarcely longer than the smooth calyx, the lower lip 

 reflexed, 



English Botany, t. 804.— English Flora, vol. iii. p. 126.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 237. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 195. 



Moot of branched fibres. Stem slender, branched, spreading, an- 

 gular, roughish. Leaves in distant pairs, lanceolate, taper pointed, a 

 bright green, paler beneath, with a stout mid-rib and lateral branches, 

 sessile, or the upper ones with short footstalks. Inflorescence solitary, 

 axillary, nearly sessile, flowers scarcely forming a spike. Bracteas or 

 floral leaves entire. Calyx tubular, the limb of four ovate lanceolate 

 segments, nearly as long or longer than the tube of the corolla, smooth. 

 Corolla yellow, the tube dilated upwards, the upper lip curved, con- 

 cave, the lower of three lobes, reflexed, with two crimson spots at the 

 base. Stamens with two of the filaments longer than the others. 

 Capsules ovate, acute, somewhat curved at the point, netted with pro- 

 minent veins, the cells one or two seeded. 



Habitat.— k\^me woods, rare; in the North ot England more 

 general, but not common in Scotland. 



Annual; flowering in July. 



GENUS XXVI. BART'SIA.— Linn. BartMa. 



Nat. Ord. Scrophularia'ce^. Lind. 



Gen. Char. Calyx campanulate, four-cleft, mostly coloured. 

 Corolla ringent, with a contracted mouth, upper lip arched, entire, 

 lower one of three equal reflexed lobes. Capsule ovate, com- 

 pressed, two celled. Seeds numerous, compressed, and unequally 

 ribbed. — Named in honour of John Bartsch, a Prussian Botanist, 

 and friend of Linnseus, who died at Surinam. 

 1. B. al'pina, Linn. (Fig. 982.) Alpine Bartsia. Leaves opposite, 

 ovate, sessile, obtusely serrated ; root creeping. 



English Botany, t. 361.— English Flora, vol. iii. p. 117.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p 235. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 190. 



Root with creeping suckers. Stem ascending from four to eight 

 inches high, obtusely angular, downy, simple, leafy. Leaves opposite, 



