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lower ones usually with a few large slender spreading ciliated 

 teeth. Flowers horizontal, secund, in a very lax spikelike raceme. 

 Calyx glabrous or puberulent ; teeth strapshaped, lanceolate, and 

 ciliated, nearly equal, all bent upwards. Tube of the corolla nearly 

 straight, more than twice as long as the calyx-teeth, and more than 

 four times as long as the lips. Capsule with an ovate profile, more 

 curved on the upper side than on the under. 



Var. a, latlfolimn. 

 Plate MIL 



Leaves ovate, all acute. Bracts strongly toothed, all except 

 the lowest ones with short points. 



Var. i3, vulgaris. 

 Plate Mill. 



Leaves strapshaped, lanceolate, all acute. Bracts strongly 

 toothed, most of them with long entire points. 



Var. 7, mo7itanum. 



PXATE MIV. 

 M. montanura, Johnst. Fl. Berwick-on-Tweed. 



Leaves strapshaped, lanceolate, acute, the lower ones generally 

 oblanceolate and obtuse. Bracts entire or nearly so, all with long 

 slender points. 



Var. a, rare. Principally in bushy places, on chalk or lime- 

 stone. On the ridge of the hill between Goring and Whitechurch, 

 Oxfordshire (Prof. Babington) ; banks of the Wye below Mon- 

 mouth (Mr. Wardale) ; Isle of Wight (Dr. Bromfield). Var. 3, 

 in open woods and copses. Common, and generally distributed, 

 but becoming rare in the North of Scotland. Var. 7, on heaths 

 and pastures. Common in mountainous districts, abundant in 

 Scotland, and reaching North to Orkney. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Var. a and i3, Summer. 

 Var. 7, late Summer and Autumn. 



A variable plant. Stems erect, wiry, flexuous, 1 to 2 feet high in 

 vars. a and 0, 2 to 12 inches in var. 7. Branches numerous, 

 spreading ; lowest bracts usually exactly similar to the leaves, 

 and distant. Plowers ^ to f inch long, pale-yellow ; the tube often 

 nearly white, especially in var. 7 ; the palate orange, and raised so 

 as to close the mouth of the corolla. Capsule longer than the calyx- 

 teeth, f inch long, compressed, at length reflexed, generally with 



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