36 ENGLISH BOTANT. 



near its tip, and having many net-like veins externally. Flowers 

 dark blue." (Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 41.) 



Var. 7, oxijptera. 



Plate CLXXXVI. 



P. oxyptera, Reich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCCXLVI. Fig. 2. 



Branches ascending, slightly flexuous. Racemes 7- to 20- 

 flowered. Calyx wings elliptical, wedge-shaped at the base, nar- 

 rower and a little shorter than the capsule. Pedicels glabrous. 

 Margins of the bracts, calyx wings, petals, and capsiile not ciliated. 



Var. 3, ciliata. 



P. ciliata, Lebel, Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCCXLVI. Fig. 5. 

 Gr. &. Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 195. Brehisson, Fl. de la Normandie, p. 43. 



Branches prostrate, tortuous. Flowering shoots decumbent. 

 Racemes 5- to 15-ilowered. Calyx wings obovate, broader than the 

 capsule. Upper part of the stem and pedicels pubescent. Margins 

 of the bracts, calyx wings, crest of the corolla, and capsule ciliated. 



Var. a, on chalky and sandy banks. Bather local but not unfre- 

 qucnt in England. Apparently rare in Scotland, as I only possess 

 it from near Edinburgh ; Dollar, Clackmannanshire ; and Breadal- 

 bane, Perthshire. Var. 3, on limestone rocks, Benbulben, Sligo. 

 Var. 7, sandy places near the sea and dry pastures ; Waterloo Sand- 

 hills, near Liverpool ; Seacombe, Cheshire ; Newhaven, Sussex ; 

 Cave Hill, co. Antrim ; Meleaghs, co. Down ; and the Channel 

 Islands. Var. 8, on the chalk slopes of the old Roman road, on 

 the Gogmagog Hills, Cambridgeshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Spring, Summer. 



Var. a has the rootstock woody, dividing into numerous branches 

 so as to form large compact tufts. Stems branched at the base, but 

 simple in the upper part, spreading out and ascending in all direc- 

 tions, 4 to 9 inches long, rather stiff, usually leafless at the very base, 

 then with broadly ovate crowded leaves passing insensibly into ellip- 

 tical and linear-lanceolate ones towards the top of the stem, which 

 terminates in a raceme, at first conical and compact, with the flowers 

 on both sides, but rather lax and secund when in fruit, and by that 

 time it is often 2 or 3 inches long. Pedicels very short, with 3 

 caducous bracts at the base, of which the middle one is much the 

 longest ; but even that is shorter than the fruiting pedicel, though 

 equal to the flowering ones. The three outer sepals of the calyx small, 

 herbaceous, with coloured borders. The wings i to f inch long ; 



