306 SUMMER FLOWERS. 



yellow spot in the throat. — Heaths and pastures. Fl. July 

 to September. 



(245) Ehinanthus. Rattle. 



R. Crista-galli : annual; stems erect_, glabrous or slightly 

 hairy, ^-1 foot high, simple or slightly branched ; leaves oppo- 

 site, lanceolate, and coarsely-toothed, the floral ones broader, 

 shorter, and more cut at the base ; flowers in a loose leafy 

 spike, yellow, often with a purple spot on the upper, or on 

 both lips. — Meadows and pastures. Fl. June. 



(246) Melampyrum. Cow- wheat. 



M. pratense : stem erect or ascending, glabrous or nearly 

 so, i-1 foot high, with very spreading, opposite branches ; 

 leaves lanceolate, the floral ones distant from each other, 

 short, and often toothed at the base ; flowers yellow, in dis- 

 tant axillary pairs, all turned one way. — Woods and bushy 

 places. Fl. July, August. 



(247) Orobanche. Broomrape. 



O. major : plant at first pale-yellow, soon becoming a dingy 

 purplish-brown ; stem simple, stout, erect, 1-2 feet high, with 

 lanceolate scales ; flowers closely sessile, forming a dense 

 spike half the length of the stem, the corolla-tube nearly as 

 broad as long, curved, with a very oblique limb, the upper lip 

 entire or shortly two-lobed, the lower one three-lobed ; upper 

 part of the style and stamens usually covered with short glan- 

 dular hairs, which are wanting in the lower parts. — Parasitical 

 on the roots of the Broom, more rarely on those of the Furze. 

 Fl. June, July. 



Several other species are found, though less frequently, as — 



