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styles half as long- as the capsule. E. B. 296. H. quadrangidum 

 tries. H. dubium (Leers) ed. viii. St. 1 2 ft. high. Fl. in 

 forked terminal cymes. Sep. ovate, blunt, nearly entire. Caps, 

 longitudinally striate. /3. Babingtonii (Groves) (var. maculatnm 

 ed. viii.) ; sep. oblong-lanceolate minutely denticulate, 1. nar- 

 lower. Moist places 'by ditches, &c. P.'VII. E. S. I. 



7. H. humifusum (L.) ; st. prostrate somewhat 2-edged, 1. 

 oval-oblong blunt minutely pellucid-punctate the margins with 

 black dots beneath, fl. subcymose, sep. unequal, 3 oblong Hunt 

 mucronate, 2 lanceolate, all entire or [H. decumbent (Peterm.)] 

 glandular-serrate and having a few black dots beneath, stain 

 1520, styles very short. E. B. 1226. R. vi. 342. St. slender, 

 3 6 in. long. Gravelly and heathy places. P. VII. E. S. I. 



8. H. linarifolium (Yahl) ; st. erect or ascending terete, 1. 

 linear blunt with revolute margins, fl. cymose, sep. rather un- 

 equal lanceolate-acute with glandular teeth and with many black 

 dots beneath, stain, about 30, styles half as long as the capsule. 

 E. B. S. 2851. St. 612 in. high. Fl. larger than in Sp. 7. 

 Channel Isles. Cape Cornwall. Banks of the Teign, Tamar 

 and Tavy, Devon. Carnarvonsh. P. VII. E. 



9. H. hirxutum (L.) ; st. erect round hairy, I. ovate or oblong 

 slightly stalked pellucid-pupctatejw6e#cift, sep. lanceolate acute 

 fringed with shortly stalked glands, pet. linear oblong tipped with 

 'stalked glands, styles deciduous. E. B. 1156. R. vi. 349. St. 



about 2 ft. high, nearly simple. Fl. in axillary and terminal 

 forked panicles. Woods and thickets. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



10. H. montdnum (L.) ; st. erect round glabrous, 1. ovate- 

 oblong sessile pellucid-punctate with glandular dots near the 

 margin, sep. lanceolateacutefmngedivith shortly stalkedglands,^et. 

 elliptic entire without dots or glands, styles half the length of 

 the capsule. E. B. 371. R. vi. 347. Fragrant. St. 2 feet 

 high, simple, smooth, slender. Fl. in terminal dense panicles. 

 Bushy limestone hills. P. VII. VIII. E. 



,11. H.pul'chrum (L.) ; st. erect round glabrous, I. cordate am- 

 plexicaul pellucid-punctate glabrous, sep. broadly ovate blunt 

 fringed ivith sessile glands, pet. ovate-lanceolate fringed with 

 glands. E. B. 1227. St. 1218 in. high, nearly simple. Fl. 

 in loose, axillary, opposite, and terminal cymes. Buds tipped 

 with red. Anth. red. A nearly prostrate form in Shetland 

 (var. procumbens Rostr.). Dry heaths, banks, woods. P. VI. 

 VII. E. S. I. 





