VI. MONACHA. 117 



Beautifully drawn, but, as I have described it, vigorously 

 erect, and with no decora bency whatever in any part of 

 it. Root branched, and enormous in proportion to plant, 

 and I fancy therefore must be good for something if one 

 knew it. But Gerarde, who calls the plant Red Rattle, 

 (it having indeed much in common with the Yellow 

 Rattle), says, i; It groweth in moist and moorish meadows ; 

 the herbe is not only unprofitable, but likewise hurtful, 

 and an infirmity of the meadows." 



(3) Palustris, D. 2055, S. 996 scarcely any likeness 

 between the plates. " Everywhere in the meadows," 

 according to D. I leave the English name, Marsh 

 Monacha, much doubting its being more marshy than 

 others. 



12. I take next (4 and 5) two northern species, Lap- 

 ponica, D. 2, and Gronlandica, D. 1166 ; the first yellow, 

 the second red, both beautiful. The Lap one has its 

 divided leaves almost united into one lovely spear-shaped 

 single leaf. The Greenland one has its red hood much 

 prolonged in front. 



(6) Ramosa, also a Greenland species; yellow, very 

 delicate and beautiful. Three stems from one root, but 

 may be more or fewer, I suppose. 



13. (7) Norvegica, a beautifully clustered golden 

 flower, with thick stem, D. 30, the only locality given 

 being the Dovrefeldt, "Alpina" and "Flammea" are 

 the synonyms, but I do not know it on the Alps, and it 

 is no more flame-coloured than a cowslip. 



