MACLOSKIE t BIGNONIACE/E. 727 



14. EUPHRASIA Linn. Eyebright 



Low, mostly branched herbs, of subparasitic habit, with opposite toothed 

 or incised leaves, and small, blue to yellow or white flowers, in terminal, 

 leafy-bracted spikes. Calyx not bracteolate at base, 4-lobed, or with a 

 small fifth lobe. Corolla very bilabiate, upper lip erect, lower spreading. 

 Stamens didynamous, pollen-sacs equal and parallel. Caps^^le nearly 

 oblong. Seeds many, ribbed. 



(Fig. A-H in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 3^, p. 100.) 



Species 100, in temperate and cold regions, N. and S. Hemispheres. 



i. E. ANTARCTICA Benth. 



Minute, erect, simple, pubescent. Leaves cuneate-trifid, the lobes 

 obtuse, short. Corolla-tube exserted ; its lobes short, subentire. Capsule 

 ovate, obtuse. 



(Chili) ; S. Patagon., by Hatcher on pampas by Rio Coy, Dec. 17. 



Magellan ; by R. O. Cunningham on Mt. Dinero, Patagon. 



Also in Australia, and in S. I. of New Zeal. ' ' Allied to the European 

 E. officinalis, and still more nearly to the Himalayan." (J. D. Hooker.) 



2. E. C^ESPITOSA Phil. 



Perennial, forming a deep turf; stems 5 cm. high, simple, puberulous. 

 Leaves glabrous, fleshy, trifid, with linear segments. Spike short, few- 

 flowered. Calyx-segments ovate. Corolla-ttibe slightly exceeding the 

 calyx, funnelform, dilated ; its lips short. 



S. Chili, at Rio Palena. 



3. E. PERPUSILLA Phil. 



Glabrous. Stem branching, scarcely 25 mm. high. Leaves crowded, 

 the lower obovate-spatulate, entire ; the upper 3-lobed. Calyx-segments 

 linear, 4 mm. long, apically rounded. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. 



Chonos Archip. It differs from E. antarctica by being glabrous, with 

 entire lower leaves ; from other species by its smallness, etc. 



Family 101. BIGNONIACE^;. Trumpet-creeper Family. 



Usually trees or shrubs, erect or climbing, with exstipulate, mostly 

 opposite, simple or pinnate leaves; and large, showy, sympetalous, inferior 

 flowers, slightly zygomorphic. Fertile stamens 2 or 4 on the corolla- 



