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This grows in the clearings of woods and grassy places in the hills and lower 

 mountains and flowers from April to June. 



V. urticaefolia Jacq. Nettle-leaved Speedwell. Leaves sessile, ovate, 

 acute, with cordate base, sharply serrate. Racemes loose, opposite. Flowers 

 pale pink or mauve, rather small. Capsule erect, compressed, slightly emar- 

 ginate. 



Woods and shady places in the lower mountains. June-July. 



V. Beccabunga L. (Brooklime), V. Anagallis L. (Water Veronica), and 

 V. anagalloides L. a more slender plant with narrow, almost entire leaves, 

 are occasionally found in watery places ; and V. officinalis L. is common in 

 woods and shady places. V. serpyllifolia L. grows in rather damp grassy 

 spots, and V. spicata L. can be found in the lower Maritime Alps but not in the 

 Var. Other common species are V. arvensis L., V. Persica Pair., V. polita 

 Fr., V. bed era-foil a L., and V. Cymbalaria Bodaro. V. verna L. and 

 V. triphyllos occur rarely in sandy places, and V. acinifolia L. may be found 

 in fields and crops. It is a small glandular annual with small sky-blue flowers 

 and glandular-ciliate capsule divided into two rounded lobes by an acute sinus. 



DIGITALIS L. FOXGLOVE. 



D. lutea L. Pale Yellow Foxglove. Plant 1-3 ft. high, usually glabrous. 

 Leaves lanceolate, shining, glabrous, finely serrated. Flowers small, pale 

 lemon-yellow, neither veined nor spotted, in a long, compact tapering unilateral 

 raceme. Capsule ovoid, conic, glabrescent. 



Ravines and shady places in the hills. May-July. 



EUPHRASIA L. EYEBRIGHT. 



The only Eyebrights recorded from the Var are E. pectinata Ten. (with the 

 vars. 0. Tatarica Fisch., and 7. Bicknelli Wettst.) and E. salisburgensis 



Funck from mountain pastures. They grow also in the Ligurian hills. 



E. Officinalis L. (Common Eyebright) is recorded from the Maritime Alps, 

 throughout the Alpine and mountain region, descending to Grasse and the hills 

 above Menton. July-Sept. 



ODONT1TES Hall. 



O. lutea Reichb. A stiff, wiry, much-branched annual about a foot high, 

 sometimes more. Leaves linear-acuminate, sessile, usually entire, i-nerved. 

 Flowers deep yellow, in long dense spikes. Calyx pubescent, with acute tri- 

 angular lobes, shorter than the fruit. Stamens longer than the corolla. 



Dry hill-sides and pine-woods, very common. August-October. 



O. viscosa Reichb. Annual about a foot high, covered with glandular 

 hairs and viscous, scented. Stems stiff, erect, with spreading branches. Leaves 

 linear-acuminate, entire, 3-nerved. Flowers small, pale yellow. 



Mountain woods. August-September. Rather rare. 



O. verna Reichb., O. serotina Reichb., both with red flowers, and 

 O. lanceplata Reichb. with yellow flowers also occur. O. lanceolata grows 

 in crops in sandy hills. It is hairy and densely leafy and attains a foot in 

 height. The yellow flowers are in dense elongated spikes with many long 

 leafy bracts. Calyx rather longer than the fruit. June-August 



BARTSIA L. 



B. latifolia Sibth. and Sm. Annual, hairy-glandular, 3-8 in. high, reddish. 

 Leaves oblong, deeply dentate. Flowers crimson and yellow, with whitish 

 tube. Anthers glabrous Capsule glabrous, narrow. 



Grassy places on the littoral and in the hills. March-May. 



B. viscosa L. Viscid Yellow Bartsia. Annual, erect, rigid, afoot high, 

 covered with short viscid glandular down. Leaves broadly lanceolate, coarsely 

 toothed. Flowers lemon-yellow, in a long terminal spike, lower lip much longer 



