DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Bartsia. 117 



length of the upper lip, incurved. A7ith. incumbent, a 

 little hairy, of two cells opening longitudinally in front, 

 and all collected together under the upper lip. Germ. 

 simple, ovate, acute. Style thread-shaped, curved. Stig- 

 ma obtuse, undivided. Caps, ovate, pointed, compressed, 

 of 2 cells and 2 valves ; the partition contrary to the 

 valves, finally splitting lengthwise, and each portion 

 bearing a longitudinal receptacle. Seeds numerous, small, 

 angular, attached by their inner edge to each receptacle. 

 Downy herbs, mostly perennial, turning black in drying. 

 Stems erect, leafy, square or round ; simple or branched. 

 Leaves simple, nearly or quite sessile, mostly opposite, 

 serrated. Fl. purple, red, or yellow, in leafy, or brac- 

 teated, terminal, upright spikes. 



1 . B. alpina. Alpine Bartsia. 



Leaves opposite, ovate, somewhat heart-shaped, bluntly 

 serrated. Stem square. Root creeping. 



B. alpina. Linn. Sp. PI. 839. fVUld.v.3.\87. Fl.Br.647. Engl. 

 Bot.v. 6. t. 361. Hook. Scot. 186. Lond. t. 87 , eyicelient. Dicks. 

 H. Sicc.fasc. 10. 1 4. Fl. Dan. t. 43. 



Staehelinia n. 312. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 136. 



Euphrasia rubra Westmorlandica, foliis brevibus obtusis. Rait 



Syn.*285. 

 Clinopodio alpino. Pon. Bald. 207./. 

 Clinopodium alpinum. Pon. in Clus. Hist. v. 2. 343./. Ger. Em. 



676./. 



C. alpinum hirsutum. Pluk. Almag. WO. Pfiyt. t.] 63./ 5. 

 Chamaedri vulgari falsae aliquatenus affinis alpina. Bauh. Hist.v.3. 



p. 2. 289./ 

 Orton Red Eye-bright. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 36./. 8. 



In boggy alpine meadows, or about the borders of mountain rivu- 

 lets, in the north of England and Highlands of Scotland. 



Near Orton, Westmoreland, by a rivulet which accompanies the 

 road to Crosby. Ray, Hudson. Near Middleton in Teesdale. 

 Rev. Mr. Harriman and Mr. Oliver. On the Yorkshire as well as 

 Durham side of the river. Dr. Hooker. Among rocks to the 

 east of Malghyrdy, in the Highlands of Scotland. Mr. Dickson. 

 On Ben Lawers. Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial. July. 



Root moderately creeping. Sterns from 4 to 8 inches high, quite 

 simple, quadrangular, most hairy on the opposite sides. Leaves 

 sessile, in pairs crossing each other, ovate, or somewhat heart- 

 shaped, veiny, deep green, strongly serrated, not an inch long. 

 Fl. inodorous, on short, solitary stalks, from the bosoms of se- 

 veral of the uppermost, diminished, purplish, crowded leaves, 



