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axillary, not spiked yellow flowers, and by being covered wLh 

 clammy down. Marshes and wet places in the south and south- 

 west. Fl. June to September. Annual. 



2. B. odontites (Red Bartsia). A much-branched herbaceous 

 plant 6-12 inches high, with narrow, tapering, serrated leaves of a 

 dingy purplish-green, and numerous one-sided spikes of small pink 

 flowers. While flowering the spikes usually drop towards the ends. 

 Cornfields ; abundant. Fl. July to September. Annual. 



3. B. Alpina (Alpine Bartsia). An erect plant, approaching 

 B. viscosa in habit, 6-8 inches high. Leaves all opposite, ovate, 

 crenate ; flowers dull purple in a leafy spike. High mountains in 

 Scotland and the north of England ; rare. Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



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Euphrasia Officinalis 

 (Common Eye-bright) 



10. Euphrasia (Eye-bright) 



1. E. officinalis (Common Eye-bright). 

 The only British species. An elegant 

 little plant 2-6 inches high, with deeply 

 cut leaves and loose, leafy spikes of numer- 

 ous white or purplish flowers, variegated 

 with yellow. On the mountains and near 

 the sea the stem is scarcely branched, 

 and the leaves are fleshy ; but in rich soil it 

 assumes the habit of a minute shrub. The 

 roots are said to be parasitic on grasses. An 

 infusion of this plant makes a useful eye- 

 water. Fl. July, August. Annual. 



II. Sibthorpia {Cornish Money-wort) 



I. 5. Europcea (Cornish Money-wort) 

 An elegant little plant, with slender, 

 thread-like stems, which creep along 

 the ground in tangled masses ; and 

 small, delicate green, downy, orbicu- 

 lar, notched leaves on slender stems. 

 The flowers very small, pink and 

 yellow, on axillary stalks. It is 

 found clothing the banks of springs 

 and rivulets in most parts of Corn- 

 wall, and occasionally met with in 

 some of the other southern counties. 

 Fl. June to September. Perennial. 



-The only British species. 



Sibthorpia Europ^a 



(Cornish Money-Wort) 



