850 BAKTSIA. [CLASS xiv. OBDKR 11. 



ovate, sessile, somewhat heart-shaped, and slightly embracing the 

 stem, dark green above and somewhat hairy, beneath paler, downy, 

 reticulated with veins, the margins obtusely serrated. Inflorescence 

 a few axillary flowers in the axis of the upper leaves, and forming a 

 sort of spike. Bracteas raiher smaller than the leaves, often a purplish 

 pink. Calyx bell-shaped, deeply four-cleft, the teeth ovate, acute, 

 ribbed, veiny, and downy, viscid. Corolla three times longer than the 

 calyx, of a purplish violet colour, downy and viscid, the tube somewhat 

 dilated upwards, compressed, the upper lip concave, entire, the lower 

 reflexed, of three nearly equal ovate acute lobes. Stamens four, the 

 filaments of unequal lengths, inserted into the tube. Anthers ovate, 

 woolly, two celled. Style protruded. Stigma obtuse. Capsules 

 ovate, acute, furrowed, two celled, downy. Seeds numerous, angularly 

 compressed, with a crenated pale brown membranous margin from 

 the angle. 



Habitat. Rocky alpine pastures, rare ; near Orton, Westmoreland ; 

 Middleton Teesdale, Yorkshire; on Malghyrdhy and Ben Lawers, in 

 the Breadalbane Mountains, Scotland. 



Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



This species is readily distinguished from the following by its 

 smaller size, ovate leaves, purple flowers, and creeping suckers. Though 

 rare with us it is frequent in the alpine districts of the Continent, 

 especially on the Alps of Switzerland and Savoy. 



2. B. visco'sa, Linn. (Fig. 983.) Yellow viscid Bartsia. Leaves 

 lanceolate, sessile, deeply serrated, the lower opposite, the upper alter- 

 nate; flowers axillary, distant ; roots fibrous. 



English Botany, t. 1045. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 118. Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 235. Lindley, Synopsis, p 190. 



Root of branched fibres. Stem erect, solitary, round, simple, downy, 

 from one to one and half feet high, leafy. Leaves lanceolate, sessile, 

 somewhat embracing the stem, downy, deeply and coarsely serrated, 

 dark green above, paler beneath, and reticulated with veins, the lower 

 ones opposite, the upper alternate. Inflorescence a loose terminal 

 spike of axillary flowers on about half the stem, sessile, becoming 

 elevated on a short round downy pedicle. Bracteas similar to the 

 leaves, gradually becoming smaller towards the top, and more viscid. 

 Calyx bell-shaped, ribbed, and clothed with soft viscid pubescence, the 

 limb of four narrow oblong lanceolate teeth, about as long as the tube. 

 Corolla yellow, the tube narrow, dilated in the throat, upper lip con- 

 cave, entire, downy, the lower spreading, of three equal rounded 

 spreading lobes, striated with crimson. Stamens inserted into the 

 middle of the tube. Anthers ovate, of two pointed hairy cells. Style 

 hairy. Stigmas large, obtuse. Capsule oblong, acute, furrowed, and 

 somewhat hairy. Seeds very numerous, minute, ovate, brown. 



