188 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



juncea or L. Loselii."— (Cybele Brit. Vol. II. p. 221.) Not now to 

 be found there. 



MIMULUS GUTTATUS. B.C. 



Said by Dr. Walker- Arnot to be " naturalized in many boggy 

 places." I have never seen a British specimen. 



VERONICA FRUTICULOSA. Linn. 

 Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 1028. 

 Said to have been found in Ben Cruachan by Rev. Dr. "Walker 

 and on Ben Lomond by Dr. Robert Brown. No doubt a mistake. 

 V. saxatilis only occurs on the latter hill. 



ORDER LI.-OROBANCHACEiE. 



Fleshy herbs, destitute of green leaves, parasitical on the roots 

 of other plants ; the stem white, purple, brown, yellow, red, or 

 dull-blue, with distant scales. Flowers irregular, in the axil ox 

 bracts similar to the scales upon the stem, arranged in spikelike 

 racemes, or rarely solitary and terminal. Calyx free from the 

 ovary, persistent, of 4 or 5 sepals, unequally combined in various 

 modes, often split along the top completely to the base, and fre- 

 quently along the bottom so as apparently to consist of 2 entire 

 or cleft sepals. Corolla tubular or tubular-campanulate, generally 

 curved, the limb 2-lippcd, the upper lip commonly 2-lobed, and 

 the lower 3. Stamens 4-, didynamous, inserted in the tube of the 

 corolla. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 to 4 parietal placentae ; style 

 single, curved at the apex ; stigma bilobed, the lobes right and left. 

 Ovules numerous. Fruit a 1-celled capsule, opening by 2 valves, 

 each valve bearing upon its face a single placenta or a pair. Seeds 

 generally very numerous, with a minute embryo enclosed in 

 transparent white albumen. 



GEN US /.— L ATHR51A. Linn. 



Flowers all perfect. Calyx inflated-campanulatc, i-toothed. 

 Corolla irregular, marcescent ; tube bellshapcd cylindrical 

 slightly arched; limb bilabiate and ringent ; the upper lip concave, 

 entire; the lower one smaller, erect, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 



