22 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Dr. F. Douglas, and afterwards by Dr. Tate ; it has also been found 

 by Sir W. C. Trevelyan in the Durham part of Teesdale. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 



Stems 2 to 9 inches high, generally growing in small tufts, 

 with the stolons and barren branches, into which the latter 

 gradually pass, often matted. Leaves ^ to 1 inch long, somewhat 

 resembling those of E. obscurum, with which the similarity of the 

 stolons also connects it. Flowers very small, $ inch across, pale-rose, 

 often solitary, and rarely more than 3 in number, with short 

 pedicels, which, however, elongate remarkably when the fruit is 

 quite ripe, attaining a length of 1 to 2 inches. Pod 1 to 1^ inch 

 long, resembling that of E. alsinifolium. The seeds, however, have 

 not the prominent scale at the top as in that plant, they are also 

 shorter and smoother. The whole plant is nearly glabrous in all 

 *he examples I have met with. 



I have great hesitation in accepting this as a species distinct 

 from E. alpinum, as I find it extremely difficult to separate dried 

 specimens which are destitute of stolons, and though I have collected 

 both forms, I never supposed at the time I was collecting two 

 species. 



Greater Alpine Willoio-hcrb. 



German, Gauchheilblattriyer Srholemveiderich. 



SPECIES XIII— E PILOBIUM ALPINUM. Fries. 



Plate DVII. 



Gr. & Godr. El de Fr. Vol. I. p. 578, obs. 



Bab. Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. II. Vol. XVII. p. 313. 



Stolons produced in summer, appearing above the ground, short, 

 slender, bearing an irregular rosette of obovate green leaves. Stem 

 erect or ascending, with 2 hairy lines, otherwise sub-glabrous. 

 Leaves opposite, shortly stalked, oblong-elliptical, or the lower ones 

 obovate, gradually attenuated at the base into the petiole, rounded 

 at the apex, very faintly denticulate or entire. Bracts opposite (or 

 rarely alternate), crowded together at the top of the stem. Buds 

 acute. Flowers solitary, or 2 or 3 together at the top of the stem, 

 drooping until after expansion. Calyx-segments oblong, acute. 

 Petals about a quarter as long again as the calyx-segments. Pods 

 sub-glabrous, on a very long pedicel when fully ripe. Seeds obovate- 

 ovoid, with the testa scarcely produced beyond the nucleus of the 

 seed (there being only a slight raised ridge over the top of the seed 

 on the inner side), attenuate and acute below, very faintly rough- 



