190 DIDYN. AMGIOSP. 



28. VERBENA. 



1. V. officinalis (common Fervain), tetrandrous, spikes slender 

 panicled, leaves much cut, stem erect solitary. Lightf.p. 78. 

 E. B. t. 767. 



HAB. Without the gates of Inverkeithing, Dr. Parsons. Fl. Aug. }/ . 



Stem 1 foot or more high, slender, panicled above. Leaves deeply 

 cut, ovate or lanceolate ; the lower ones subpetiolate. Flowers 

 small, tubular, 5 -cleft j lobes spreading, somewhat equal, purplish, 

 each with a small bractea at its base. Pericarp soon disappearing, 

 leaving the 4 really naked seeds at the bottom of the cal. 



29. LINNJEA. 



1. L. lorealis (two-lowered Linncea). E.B.I. 1297. 



HAB. Fir woods in very shady places. Fir wood at Mearns near Aber- 

 deen, Prof. James 'Seattle. Hill of Kinnoul, near Perth, Messrs. 

 Brown. Crebston, 5 miles from Aberdeen; and at Kemnay, 16 

 miles N. W. from Aberdeen, Maugh. Several woods in Aberdeen- 

 shire, Mr. Craigie. Lately discovered in a fir wood, called Drum- 

 mond, 1 mile to the S.W. of Inverness, by Mr. Urquhart, and 

 Mr. G. Anderson of that town. Only one large patch was found, 

 and that producing no flowers. Fl. May, June. 14 . 



Stems trailing, filiform, woody, with distant, ovato-rotundate, oppo- 

 site, shortly petiolate, crenate, scarcely hairy leaves. Peduncles 

 erect, 2 4 inches long, with two drooping pedicellate flowers, brac- 

 teated at the forking of the pedicels, and with 2 pair of distant, 

 small bracieas upon the pedicels, uppermost pair or involucre glan- 

 dular, placed just beneath the inferior germen. Cal. small. Cor. 

 campanulate, white, with arose coloured extremity, 5 -cleft. Fruit 

 enveloped by the glandular involucre, a dry berry, never ripening 

 more than 1 seed, according to Wahl. ; for I have never seen the 

 fruit myself. 



30. LIMOSELLA. 



1. L. aqnalica (Mudwort). Lightf. p. 331. E. B. t.357. 

 HAB. Muddy places where water has stood, but not common. Fl. 



July, Aug. p. 

 A minute creeping plant, throwing up clusters of narrow, spathulate, 



glabrous leaves, 1 or 2 inches long. Flowers very small, axillary, 



peduncled, pale rose colour. Stam. almost equal, as well as the 



segments of the cor. 



31. OROBANCHE. 



1. O. major (greater Broom-Rape), stem simple, cor. tubular 

 its upper lip undivided lower one in three nearly equal seg- 

 ments their lateral ones acute the terminal one largest obtuse, 

 stam. glabrous, style downy. Lightf. p. 332. 



HAB. Dry pastures, but rare 5 upon the Buck of Burntisland, Sibbald. 

 Roots of trees, Logic Almond, Perthshire, Mr. Murray. Isle of 

 Skye, Dr. Walker. Parasitic on the roots of plants, especially the 

 diadelphous ones. Fl. June. July. 7/ ? 



