GLOBULARIACE^ 239 



unilateral, drooping. Rootstock fleshy, and creeping, covered with 

 short, thick, fleshy scales. Parasitical upon roots of Hazel, Poplar, 

 and Alder, and rarely upon Vines and Apple trees. 



Distribution. Europe, Central and Russian Asia except the 

 extreme N. British. 



GLOBULARIACE^E 



A small family of about 14 species, inhabiting Europe and the 

 Mediterranean district. 



GLOBULARIA L. 



Flowers blue, in globular heads. Cordla tubular. Calyx 4-cleft, 

 teeth linear. Stamens nearly equal in length. Stigma simple, 

 capitate. 



Globularia cordifolia L. 



Root tapering, branched, putting up branching prostrate, rooting 

 shoots, which ultimately become woody and knotty. Stem her- 

 baceous, erect or ascending, simple, leafless except for i or 2 scales, 

 glabrous like the leaves. Flowers blue, in a solitary umbel, flatly 

 hemispherical. Leaves of the shoots alternate, crowded, stalked, 

 obovate-lanceolate or spathulate, entire, rounded at the apex, 

 emarginate or 3-toothed. 



Gravelly, stony, and dry Alpine and sub-alpine places, often 

 covering large tracts. May to July. 



It prefers limestone, and is found from the plains up to 8000 feet. 



Distribution. Eastern, Central, and Western Alps ; Jura, 

 Pyrenees, Central and Southern Europe. 



Globularia nudicaulis L. 



Rootstock with fusiform branches, many-headed, but with no 

 runners. Stem herbaceous, 3-6 inches high, naked, or with a few 

 scales, erect, simple, glabrous like the leaves, bearing only a single 

 hemispherical capitulum of blue flowers. Radical leaves, stalked, 

 cuneate-oblong, entire, rounded at the apex or shallowly emargi- 

 nate. Scales of the stem small, lanceolate-membranous, not ciliated. 

 Leaves coriaceous, dark green. 



Pastures and stony places on the calcareous Alps and lower Alps. 

 June, July. It does not reach quite so high an altitude as the last. 



Distribution. Eastern, Central, and Western Alps, Pyrenees, 

 Spain, Apennines. 



Globularia vulgaris L. 



Rootstock almost woody. Scape erect, 4-12 inches high, with 

 numerous, alternate, small, sessile, lanceolate-acute leaves. Root- 

 leaves large, - oboval, entire, sometimes trifid at top, gradually 

 narrowing into a long petiole. Flowers blue in small globular heads. 



