176 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES II — B ARTSIA VISCOSA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCCXCIV 



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



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1739. 



Euphragia viscosa, Benth. in D. C. Prod. Vol. X. p. 543. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. 



p. 246. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 611. Reich. JU. 1. c. p. 54. 

 Trixago viscosa, Reich. Fl. Excurs. p. 360. 



Annual. Stem round, erect, simple, rarely slightly branched 

 in the lower half. Leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate or oval- 

 lanceolate, acute, remotely and coarsely serrate throughout. 

 Flowers in a rather lax spike or spike-like raceme, not secuntl. 

 Pedicels much shorter than the tube of the calyx. Corolla ringent, 

 hairy with gland-tipped hairs. Style scarcely exceeding the upper 

 lip of the corolla. Capsule elliptical-ovoid, subacute, apiculate, 

 hairy, a little shorter than the calyx. Seeds very minute, very 

 finely reticulated. Plant pubescent, with the hairs on the stem, 

 calyx, and corolla gland-tipped. 



In moist meadows and in marshes. Not uncommon in tho 

 South and "West of England, extending from Sussex, Hants, 

 Dorset, and Cornwall, North to Dumbarton, Renfrew, and 

 Argyle ; also in the South-west of Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem wiry, 3 to 18 inches high, sometimes with a few branches 

 towards the base, but more generally simple. Leaves -| to \\ inch 

 long, scabrous above with raised points, from which hairs arc 

 produced, reticulated below as in B. Odontites, but more coarsely 

 serrated and broader than in that species. Calyx-tube yellowish- 

 white towards the base ; teeth green. Flowers f inch long, pale- 

 yellow. Capsule f to -^ inch long, slightly exceeding the calyx- 

 tube, but shorter than the segments. Plant yellowish-green, the 

 stem, under side of the leaves, pedicels, and calyx-tube clothed with 

 short gland-tipped hairs, the upper side and margins of the leaves 

 with short stiff hairs without glands at the tip. 



Yellow Bartsia. 



French, Bartsie Vimjueuse. German, Gelbbliittriger Auyenlrost. 



Sub-Gentjs III.— EU-BABTSIA. (Bartsia, Slec.) 



Capsule ovate-oblong, not compressed, pointed. Seeds large, 

 with the ribs on the back winged. Hilum lateral. 



