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Stem simple or slightly branched. Bracts wholly green. Calyx 

 glabrous. Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx-segments ; lobes 

 of the upper lip not longer than broad ; lower lip as long as the 

 upper. Seeds with a broad membranous border. 



In meadows and damp pastures and marshes. Very common, 

 and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 



Stem erect, wiry, 4-sided, 3 to 20 inches high, simple in small, 

 or with a few branches in large specimens. Leaves opposite, 1 to 2 

 inches long, sessile, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-strapshaped, sub- 

 cordate at the base ; margins slightly incurved, deeply serrated ; 

 upper surface scabrous, glabrous or finely bristly hairy ; under sur- 

 face reticulated. Elowers in the axils of opposite leaflike bracts, 

 which are longer than the calyx, arranged in a spikelike raceme. 

 Calyx ^ to f inch long when in fruit, bladdery, reticulate-veined, 

 roundish-deltoid, much compressed, with 4 nearly equal teeth, the 

 2 upper ones divided much more deeply than the others. Corolla 

 J to 1 inch long, bright-yellow with the tube paler, the limb 

 puberulent, yellow; the upper lip with 2 small bright-blue glabrous 

 lobes. Capsule orbicular, compressed so as to be flat, shorter than 

 the calyx, f to -J inch long. Seeds roundish oval, ^ inch across, 

 of which the border is nearly yq inch, shining and marked with 

 radiating lines. Plant bright-green, glabrous, or with the upper 

 side of the leaves pubescent. 



Common Yellow-Seattle. 



French, Rhinanthe ct Petites Fhurs. German, Kleine Klapper. 



Tins plant is sometimes called Pennyweed, though its usual name of Rattle i» 

 more familiar, and is given to it from the noise the rij)e seeds make in their pods. 



Sub-Species II.— Rhinanthus major. Ehrh. 



Plate DCCCCXCIX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXXXIX. Fig. 2. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1289. 



R. major, a glabra, F. Schultz. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 612. 



R. angustifolius, Gmel. Benth. in D. C. Prod. Vol. X. p. 558. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. 



ed. viii. p. 310. 

 Alectorolophus major, var. c glabra, Reich, jil. 1. c p. ^Q. 

 A. grandiflorus, var. a glabratus, Wallroth, Sched. Grit. p. 31G. 



Stem usually copiously paniculately-branched. Bracts yellow 

 at the base, with pale-green points. Calyx glabrous. Corolla- 

 tube longer than the calyx-segments ; lobes of the upper lip longer 

 than broad ; lower lip shorter than the upper. Seeds generally 

 with a broad membranous border, rarely nearly apterous. 



