180 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Stems numerous, spreading, 2 to 9 inches long, the central stem 

 with flowers nearly to the hase. Leaves similar to those of P. palus- 

 tris, hut less narrowed towards the apex, and with the segments 

 usually more deeply and acutely lobed. Flowers 1 to 1^ inch 

 long, pale-rose, without the brownish shade on the upper lip which 

 is present in P. palustris. Calyx without hairs, except along the 

 margins of the sinus between the segments. Capsule ^ inch lorn*-, 

 about equalling the calyx. Plant dull-green. 



Procumbent Louseicort. 



French, redlculaire des ForUs. German, Wcdd LduaekratU 



The expressed juice of this phmt has been employed as a remedy in some diseases, 

 chiefly as an injection in case of ulcers. 



GENUS XIII— R HINANTHUS. Linn. 



Calyx urceolate, laterally compressed, much inflated and 

 bladdery even during flowering, 4 -toothed. Corolla tabular, 

 bilabiate ; upper lip helmet-shaped, much compressed laterally, 

 entire, or with 2 small teeth or lobes at the apex ; lower lip 

 3-lobed, the lobes sub-erect. Stamens 4, didynamous, placed under 

 the upper lip of the corolla ; anthers 2-celled, with the lobes not 

 mucronate. Capsule sub -orbicular, much compressed laterally, 

 loculicidally dehiscing by 2 valves. Seeds rather few, large, sub- 

 orbicular, and much compressed. 



Erect annuals with opposite leaves, and large axillary yellow 

 flowers arranged in terminal spikes. 



The derivation of the name of this genus is from pn> (rin), the nose, and aidog 

 (<nil/iua), a flower; in allusion to the form of the blossom, which is spurred. 



SPECIES L— RHINANTHUS CRIST A- GALLI. Mm. 



Plates DCCCCXCVIII. DCCCCXCIX. 



Calyx ventricose, compressed, 1-toothcd. Corolla with the 

 upper lip short, semicircular, compressed, not produced into a 

 beak. 



Sub Species I. — Rhinantlms minor. Ehrh. 

 Plate DCCCCXCVIII. 



Reich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXXXVIII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1288. 



i;. Crista-galli, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 657. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 245. Hook. kArn. 



Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 310. 

 Alectorolophus minor, Reich. Fl. Excurs. p. 358. Reich. JU. I. c. 

 A. parviflorus, Wulhuth, Sched. Crit. p. 318. 



