122 ENGLISII BOTANY. 



SPECIES II— SCROPHULARIA EHRHARTI. Steo. 



Plate DCCCCXLVIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXII. 



S. aquatica, Fries, Sum. Veg. Scaud. p. 17. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. i. p. 515. 



Rt ich. Fl. Excurs. p. 377. 

 S. alata, " Gilb." Reich, fit. 1. c. p. 25. 

 S. umbrosa, Dutnortier I Fl. Beige, p. 37. 



Kootstock Dot tuberous. Stem acutely quadrangular, with 

 the angles broadly winged. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, with 

 winged petioles, acute, serrate or crenate-serrate, without lateral 

 lobes from the wing of the petiole ; the lower ones often sub-cor- 

 date at the base and generally obtuse. Flowers in lax divaricate 

 axillary corymbose cymes arranged in an elongate lax panicle. 

 Bracts all like the leaves. Pedicels slender, with a few gland-tipped 

 hairs, 3 to G times as long as the calyx at the time of flowering. 

 Divisions of the calyx obovate-orbicular, with broad scarious 

 margins. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, not contracted at 

 the throat. Abortive stamen deeply notched, transversely 

 linear-rcniform. Capsule globose, obtuse and apiculate. Plant 

 glabrous. 



By the banks of streams and wet places. Local. It has occurred 

 at Wilmington, Sussex ; formerly in Belsize Park, Middlesex ; 

 near Truestry, Herefordshire ; Staffordshire ; near Preston, Lan- 

 cashire ; Ilkley, near Gisborne, Yorkshire ; banks of the "VVhitadder, 

 Berwick-on-Tweed ; banks of the Almond, about Cramond Bridge, 

 near Edinburgh. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



This plant has been very unaccountably confounded with 

 S. aquatica of Linnaeus, but has much more the habit of S. nodosa. 

 It is usually a more luxuriant plant than S. aquatica, often 

 with the axillary branches developed. Tbe stems are more broadly 

 winged. The petioles are much more broadly winged, and appear 

 never to produce small lateral lobes, as is sometimes the ease 

 in S. aquatica. The leaves are much broader near the base, and 

 often all, except those on the young radical shoots, acute. The 

 bracts are all leaflike. The cymes are much more lax, with long 

 slender divaricate pedicels. The capsules are blunt and apiculate, 

 not gradually acuminate. The corolla is about ^ to \ inch long, 

 with a greater portion of the tube green than in S. aquatica, and 

 the upper lip does not project nearly so far beyond the lower. 



