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SCROPHULARINE^E. XCVI. BARTSIA. 



8 O. LONGIFLORA ; clothed with clammy pubescence ; leaves 

 linear, quite entire ; tube of corolla filiform, 3 times as long as 

 the calyx. 0. H. Native of Spain, on arid gypsose hills. 

 Euphrasia longiflora, Vahl, symb. 3. p. 78. Cav. icon. 1. p. 

 45. t. 62. Barrel, icon. 1204. Leaves blunt : rameal ones im- 

 bricate. Upper lip of corolla undivided : lobes of the lower 

 one rounded. Stem purple. Branches quadrangular. Flowers 

 axillary, in spikes, yellow. Seeds striated longitudinally. Cells 

 of anthers awned at the base. Perhaps a new genus. 



Long-jlorvered Eyebright. PL \ to 1 foot. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Euphrasia above. A 

 light soil answers the plant best. 



XCVI. BA'RTSIA (named by Linnaeus in memory of his 

 particular friend John Bartsch, M.D., of whom he gives an 

 interesting melancholy account in his Flora Suecica.) Lin. gen. 

 no. 739. Schreb. gen. no. 996. Juss. gen. p. 100. ed. Usteri, 

 p. 113. Nutt. gen. amer. 2. p. 55. Trixago, Stev. ped. p. 4. 



LIN. SYST. Didynatnia, Angiospermia. Calyx 4-cleft. Co- 

 rolla bilabiate : upper lip concave, entire : the lower lip trifid 

 and reflexed. Stamens 4, didynamous. Anthers tomentose, 

 equally lobed, free. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved ; dissepiment 

 contrary to the valves. Seeds angular. Herbaceous plants. 

 Leaves entire, alternate, and opposite. Flowers alternate, brac- 

 teate, in terminal racemes. Corollas bluish purple, or yellow. 



SECT. I. EUBA'RTSIA (this section is supposed to contain the 

 true species of the genus.) Corolla shortly bilabiate. Seeds 

 with membranous striated angles. 



1 B. ALPI V NA (Lin. spec. 839.) leaves opposite, ovate-sub- 

 cordate, bluntly serrated ; anthers hairy ; capsule pilose, ex- 

 ceeding the calyx. 0. H. Native of the mountains of Lap- 

 land, Switzerland, Savoy, Mount Baldo ; and near Orton, in 

 Westmoreland; Labrador, Colmaster. Smith, engl. bot. 361. 

 Pedicularis, fl. dan. t. 43. Schkuhr, handb. 168. Hall. helv. 

 no. 312. Stsechellna alpina, Crantz, fl. austr. p. 294. Euphra- 

 sia, &c. Lin. fl. lapp. 246. Plukn. aim. 110. t. 163. f. 5. 

 Clinopodium alpinum, Pon. bald. 343. Stem villous, bluntly 

 quadrangular. Leaves sessile, dry, rather hairy : floral ones 

 purple. Flowers solitary from the axils of the upper leaves, 

 forming an interrupted, leafy spike. Corolla reddish, blue, or 

 deep purple, villous. 



Alpine Bartsia. Fl. July, Aug. Britain. PI. -| foot. 



2 B. SPICA'TA (Pers. 1. c.) leaves opposite, ovate-cordate, 

 bluntly toothed : superior ones lanceolate, with remote teeth ; 

 flowers imbricately spicate ; spike branched ; stamens equal in 

 length to the galea ; anthers hairy ; capsule pilose, exceeding 

 the calyx. . H. Native of the Pyrenees. Ramond. in bull. 

 di. sc. nat. no. 42. p. 141. f. 4. B. Fagonii, Lapeyr. Spike 

 elongated. Bracteas shorter than the calyxes. Flowers yellow. ? 



Bartsia. PI. 1 to 1|- foot. 



Clt. ? PI. i foot. 

 FIG. 59. 



SECT. II. TRIXA'GO. Galea of corolla semi-cylindrical, short. 

 Seeds minute, not winged. 



3 B. PURPU'REA (Duby, bot. gall. p. 354.) stem nearly sim- 

 ple, or branched from the base ; leaves ovate dentately palmate ; 

 spike interrupted at the base, leafy ; calyx villous, with lance- 

 olate, obtuse segments ; anthers nearly glabrous, about equal in 

 length to the calyx. . H. Native of the South of France, 

 in pastures, and on the banks of rivers ; and other parts of the 

 South of Europe, and North of Africa. Euphrasia latifolia, 

 Lin. spec. 841. B. latifolia, Smith, fl. grsec. 6. p. 69. t. 568. 

 Trixago purpurea, Stev. mon. ped. p. 4. Sabb. hort. rom. 3. 

 t. 7. Magn. monsp. 95. t. 94. Mor. hist. 3. p. 330. sect. 11. 

 t. 24. f. 8. Column, ecphr. t. 202. f. 2. Leaves opposite. 



Corolla with a white tube, and a blood-coloured villous limb 

 upper lip short straight. 



/Wp/e-flowered Bartsia. Fl. July, Sept. 



4 B. VISCOSA (Lin. spec. 830.) 

 hairy ; leaves lanceolate, acumi- 

 nated, coarsely serrated : supe- 

 rior ones alternate, serrated ; 

 flowers distant, lateral ; stamens 

 shorter than the galea ; anthers 

 hairy ; calycine segments linear- 

 lanceolate, acutish. .H. Native 

 of France, Italy, and Britain ; in 

 the marshes of Cornwall, Devon- 

 shire, Lancashire, and Stafford- 

 shire ; and of Argyleshire, in 

 Scotland. The same plant has 

 been found in Brazil, in the 

 province of Monte Video, by 

 Sello. Rhinanthus viscosus, 

 Smith, fl, brit. p. 648. Brot. 



fl. lus. 1. p. 187. Smith, engl. bot. t. 1045. Lightf. fl. scot, 

 p. 321. t. 14. Plukn. aim. 142. t. 27. f. 5. Mor. hist. 3. 

 p. 432. no. 15. Alectorolophos, Barrel, icon. t. 665. Stem te- 

 rete, simple, villous towards the top. Calyx large, divided into 

 5 lanceolate segments. Corolla yellow. Capsule hairy, much 

 shorter than the calyx. The whole plant clammy. (Fig. 59.) 

 Clammy Bartsia. Fl. July, Aug. Britain. PI. 1 foot. 



5 B. BICOLOR (D. C. icon. rar. t. 10. Duby, bot. gall. p. 

 354.) pubescent ; stem simple, or a little branched ; leaves op- 

 posite, lanceolate-linear, serrated ; flowers densely spicate ; 

 bracteas ovate, or ovate-roundish ; calyx woolly, with ovate- 

 obtuse segments ; anthers hairy ; capsule villous, shorter than 

 the calyx. . H. Native of Brittany. D. C. fl. fr. 5. p. 

 391. Seeds striated, not winged. 



Tno-coloured-fiovrered. Bartsia. PI. 1 foot. 



6 B. ACUMINA'TA (Pursh, fl. amer. sept. 2. p. 429.) leaves 

 alternate, long, linear : floral ones ovate, long-acuminated, 3- 

 nerved, all undivided ; flowers shorter than the bracteas ; teeth 

 of calyx acute. Q. H. Native on the north-west coast of 

 America, and in the Island of Unalaschka. 



Acuminated-\eaved Bartsia. PI. 



7 B. TRIXA'GO (Lin. spec. ed. 1. p. 602.) pubescent ; stem 

 quite simple ; leaves opposite, lanceolate, bluntly serrated ; flow- 

 ers densely spicate; bracleas ovate-roundish; calyx woolly, with 

 small, obtuse teeth ; anthers hairy ; capsule villous, equalling the 

 calyx ; middle segment of the lower lip obtuse, smaller than 

 the lateral ones. 0. H. Native of Palestine, Italy, Montpelier, 

 and Caucasus, in humid places by the sea-side among rushes. 

 Smith, fl. graec. t. 585. Rhinanthus Trixago, Lin. spec. 840. 

 Alectorolophus Trixago, Bieb. cauc. 2. p. 69. Bellacdia Trix- 

 ago, All. ped. no. 220. Bartsia, Lin. spec. ed. 1st. p. 602. 

 Trixago A'pula unicaulis, Column, ecphr. 1. p. 199. f. 197. 

 Mor. hist. 3. p. 427. sect. 11. t. 24. f. 8. Stem quadrangular, 

 rather woolly. Leaves pale, and so deeply toothed as to appear 

 jagged. Spikes of flowers heaped at the top of the stem, large, 

 quadrangular, woolly, and even rather viscid. Calyx inflated, 

 angular. Corolla large, yellow ; upper lip shorter, and narrow ; 

 palate prominent, 2-lobed. Seeds striated. 



Trixago Bartsia. PI. 1^ foot. 



8 B. VERSICOLOR (Pers. ench. 2. p. 151.) hairy; stem simple; 

 leaves opposite : lower ones linear-lanceolate, crenated : superior 

 ones linear, deeply serrated ; spikes dense, short ; bracteas ovate 

 cordate, acuminated, longer than the flowers ; segments of the 

 lower lip obtuse: the middle segment the narrowest. Q. H. 

 Native of Italy and the North of Africa. Rhinanthus versicolor, 

 Desf. fl. atl. 2. p. 33. Brot. fl. lus. 1. p. 186. Lam. diet. 2. p. 



