184 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



I am indebted to Mr. G. S. Gibson for fresh specimens from 

 Saffron Walden. 



Crested Cow-ioheat 



French, Melampyre a Cretes. German, Kammiihriger Wachtelweizm. 



SPECIES II— ME LAMP YRUM ARVENSE. Linn. 



Platk .MI 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCXXXVI. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1286. 



Bracts coloured, rhomboidal-ovate, subacute, fiat, adpresscd, 

 all (except tbe lowest) wedgeshaped at tbe base, where they are 

 lacerate, with long slender ascending teeth, which are not ciliated ; 

 uppermost ones nearly entire or with broad teeth. Flowers erect, 

 in a rather dense sub-cylindrical spike. Calyx puberulent ; teeth 

 subulate, ciliated, nearly equal. Tube of the corolla bent about 

 the middle, only slightly exceeding the calyx-teeth, and scarcely 

 four times as long as the lips. Capsule with a broadly-oval profile, 

 with the upper and under sides with nearly equal curvature. 



In cornfields. Very local. Common near St. Lawrence, in the 

 Isle of Wight. It also occurs in Norfolk, in Essex, and in Herts. 



England. Annual. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Stem wiry, flexuous, 8 inches to 2 feet high, bluntly quad- 

 rangular, puberulent. Leaves lanceolate or strapshaped-lanceolate, 

 1^ to 3 inches long, bristly puberulent above ; all entire, except a 

 few of the upper ones, which have 1 or 2 teeth near the base. 

 Spikes indistinctly 4-sided. Lowest bracts usually a little remote 

 from the others, and leaflike, the rest purplish-rose changing to 

 green. Elowers puberulent, f inch long, with the tube rose-colour, 

 the throat with a bright yellow patch, the lips closed, dark-rose. 

 Capsule \ inch long, shorter than the calyx. Seeds generally 1 in 

 each cell, much the size and colour of grains of wheat. Plant light- 

 green, scabrous with minute hairs. 



Field Cow-wheat. 



French, Melampyre des Champs. German, Feld Wachtehoeizm, 



SPECIES III.— ME LAMP YRUM PRATENSE. /. 



Plates MIL Mill. MIV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXXXI 1 1 

 J Ullot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 61. 



Bracts green, lanceolate or ovate, acute, flat, spreading, shortly 

 stalked, truncate or rounded and often sub-hastate at the base ■ the 



