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two pairs, one pair being provided with rather longer 

 filaments than the other. The style is filiform, or thread- 

 like, and terminates in a small and inconspicuous stigma. 

 The capsule is of a rounded, oblong character, and is 

 divisible into two cells, each containing several small 

 whitish seeds. The bartsia is very closely allied to the 

 eye-bright, the Eup/irasia officinalis, another very common 

 plant, and was therefore by many of the older herbalists 

 called the red-flowered eye-bright ; while it is in some 

 respects not unlike the cow- wheat (Melampyniiii pratense}, 

 a plant we figure in the present volume, so that some 

 mediaeval writers, to be quite upon the safe side, gave it 

 the long compound name of eye-bright cow-wheat, and 

 almost all these ancient authorities classify it botanically 

 as the Euphrasia. Linnaeus himself, though he afterwards 

 made a new genus, Bartsia, for its reception, called it 

 Euphrasia in his " Systema Vegetabilium,-" published in 

 1784, as he had previously done in his " Flora Suecica/" a 

 book that appeared in the year 1755. The bartsia was 

 so called by the great Swede after his friend Dr. Johann 

 Bartsch, of Konigsberg. 



