EED BAETS1A. 



Bartsia Odontites. Nat. Ord., 

 Scrophularia-ceee . 



HE red bartsia is too common 

 a plant almost everywhere to 

 be overlooked, though as Curtis, 

 in his " Flora Londinensis," 

 says, '" it is not remarked 

 either for its beauty or utility." 

 It is not a brilliant or at- 

 tractive plant, and will probably 

 rarely find itself in the floral 

 posy of the wayside stroller, 

 being ordinarily either com- 

 pletely overlooked, or else held 

 not fit company for its gayer 

 contemporaries. At the same 

 time, as it is abundant by the 

 roadside, on rubbish-heaps, and 

 in corn-fields, we may not here pass it by, and more 

 especially as we may hope that our labours, to those 

 who are interested in them, may have led to a closer 

 scanning of the country-side, and those who overlooked 

 the bartsia before may now turn to our pages for infor- 

 mation respecting it. 



The plant differs a good deal in size according to the 

 place in which it grows, though except in mere bulk the 

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