CLASS XtT. ORDHR If.] EUPHRASIA. 861 



Habitat. Moist meadows and pastures in the West of England, 

 Wales, the South-West of Scotland, the South of Ireland, and in 

 Jersey, but not very common. 



Annual ; flowering in August. 



3. B. odonti'tes, Huds. (Fig. 984.) Red Bartsia. Leaves lanceolate, 

 sessile, distantly serrated, the lower opposite, the upper alternate ; 

 bracteas oblong lanceolate, longer than the sessile unilateral crowded 

 spiked flowers ; corolla densely pubescent, the upper lip compressed, 

 the lower three-cleft and spreading; anthers pubescent at the base ; 

 root fibrous. 



English Botany, t. 1415. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 119. Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 235. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 191. 

 . serotina. Leaves narrower, bracteas shorter than the flowers. 



B- serotina, Bert, amoen. Ital. p. 33. Euphrasia Odontites, 

 & Linn. 



Root fibrous. Stem erect, square, much branched, rough, with re- 

 flexed hairs from six to eighteen inches high, leafy. Leaves lanceolate, 

 sessile, the lower opposite, the upper alternate, rough, with short 

 hairs, dark green above, paler beneath, the margins coarsely and 

 distantly serrated. Inflorescence a long terminal many flowered one- 

 sided spike. Bracteas ovate lanceolate, longer than the flowers, or 

 sometimes they are small, linear, almost entire, and shorter than the 

 flowers, reddish. Calyx bell-shaped, rough, with hairs deeply four- 

 cleft into lanceolate teeth as long as the tube. Corolla a dull rose 

 colour, densely pubescent, especially the upper lip, the tube narrow, 

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

 three-cleft, reflexed, the lateral lobes oblong, the middle one obtuse, 

 veiny. Stamens protruding, the anthers large, of two ovate pointed 

 cells, somewhat pubescent at the con neciicum . Styles rough. Stigmas 

 obtuse. Capsules ovate, downy, many seeded. Seeds numerous, 

 small, striated. 



Habitat. Corn fields, road sides, and waste places ; frequent. 



Annual; flowering in July and August. 



This is readily distinguished from the other species by its much 

 branched stem, its erect one sided many flowered spikes of a dull rose 

 colour. The varieties appear to be only those produced by difference 

 in soil and situation. It is frequently gathered by the country people, 

 and an infusion of the whole plant used for the cure of inflamed eyes, 

 which, perhaps, is equally as efficacious as the following, which has 

 been so highly esteemed. 



GENUS XXVII. EUPHRA'SIA LINN. Eye-bright. 



Nat. Ord. SCROPHCLARIA'CEJS. LIND. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx tubular, or campanulate, four toothed. Corolla 

 with the upper lip divided, the lower one of three nearly equal 

 lobes. Capsule ovate oblong, obtuse, or emarginate, two celled. 



