Plex.cor. 22. RHINANTHACE^. 71.Melamp. 31S 



Melampyrum purpurascente coma, Raii Syn. 286 *,3. 

 Melampyrum caeruleiun, Ger. em. 90, 3. 

 Melampyrum arvense, Lin. S. P. 842. 

 Blue cuw-iaheat. Purple cow-wheat. 



Sandy fields ; annual; July. 



iS/ew 2 feet high, much branched, upright; leaves lan- 

 ceolate, not cut ; spike many-flowered ; braciecB spreading, 

 purple ; corolla closed ; apex purple. 



3. Melampyrum vulgatum. Common cow-wheat. 

 Flowers axillary, one-rowed, conjugately remote ; corolla 



closed; lip porrected; calyx rather coloured; lobes ascend- 

 ing; stem much branched. 



Melampyrum sylvaticum flora luteo, sive satureja lutea sylrestris, Raii 



Syn. 286*, 2. 



Crataeogonon album, Ger. em. 91, 1. 

 Crataeogonon vulgare, Park. 1326, 1. 

 Melampyj um pratense, Lin. S. P. 843. 

 Melampyrum -vulgatum, Pers. Syn, 151. 



Woods and hedges ; annual ; July and August. 

 S^ew smooth; /eaye5 lanceolate; bractece pinnati^d; iiile 

 of the corolla white ; mouth closed, yellow ; palate fulvous. 



^. album. Corolla white, with 2 yellow spots on the 



lower lip. 



Melampyrum latifolium flore albo, labio inferiore duabusmaculisluteis 

 distlncto, Billen in Raii Syn. 286 *, 2. 



4. Melampyrum alpestr'e. Alp cow-wheat. 

 Flowers axillary, 1-rowed, conjugately remote; corolla 



open; lip deflexed; galea hirsute; leaves linear; 2 lower 

 ones reverse ovate. 



Melampyrum sylvaticum, Lin. S. P. 843. 

 Melampyrum alpestre, Pers. Syn. 151. 



Alpine woods and pastures ; annual ; July and August. 



Stem not much branched, roughish ; leaves not cut ; 

 Jlowers small ; lobes of the calyx broad at the bottom ; co- 

 rolla yellow, mouth fulvous. 



Fam.VI. 23. OROBANCHEJ2. Link. Pedicularibus 



affines, Jnssieu. Rhinanihacearum 



sectio^ De Candolle. 



Calyx divided, persistent, tubular; corolla hypogynous, 



ringent; stamens 4, inserted on the corolla, didynamous; 



ant Hers 2-celled; ovary free, 1-celled, glandular at the base; 



style simple; stigma 2-lobed; capsule 2-valved, 1-celled; 



valves distinct; plaeentarium longitudinal, on the middle 



