118 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Bartsia. 



forming a dense leafy spike. Cal. also purplish, viscid. Cor. of 

 a vivid purplish blue. Seeds deeply furrowed along their outer 

 edge. 



The whole plant turns quite black in drying, especially if gathered 

 young ; and, as Dr. Hooker observes, cannot be seen to ad- 

 vantage except in its native places of growth, where it makes a 

 beautiful appearance. It occupies the loftiest alps of Switzerland 

 and Savoy. 



Linnaeus having, very early, dedicated this genus to his highly de- 

 serving but unfortunate friend Bartsch ; who died at Surinam, 

 in consequence of the neglect, if not persecution, of his slave- 

 trading countrymen the Dutch ; could not adopt the name given 

 by Halier, but established another very handsome Stcehelina on 

 the recommendation of the latter. See Limcsan Correspondence, 

 V. 2. 294, &c. 



2. B. viscosa. Yellow Viscid Bartsia. 



Leaves serrated; upper ones alternate. Flowers lateral 

 and distant. Stem round. Root fibrous. 



B. viscosa. Linn. Sp. PL S39. fVilld. v. 3. 186. Fl.Br.648. Engl. 



Bot.v.\5.t.]045. Lightf.32].t. 14. Hook. Scot. 186. Lond. 



t.l67. Dicks. Dr. Pl.72. 

 Euphrasia major lutea latifolia palustris. Raii Sijn. *285. Pluk. 



Phyt. t. 27/. 5, very bad ; coj3ied by Petiver, H. Brit. t. 36. f. 6. 

 Alectorolophos Italica luteo-pallida. Barrel. Ic. t. 665, good. 



In marshy ground, in the western parts of Britain and Ireland, but 

 rare. 



In several parts of Cornwall and Devonshire. Huds. F. Borone, and 

 Mr. E. Forster. Plentiful near Ormskirk, Lancashire. Huds. 

 At AUerton, near Liverpool. Mr. Robert Roscoe. In Argylshire. 

 Light/, and Mr. J. Mackay. Dr. Hooker mentions several sta- 

 tions of this plant, on the south-west side of Scotland. It is said 

 by Dr. Wade, PI. Rar. Hib. 49, to grow in a bog, 6 miles from 

 Cork, on the road to Killarney. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root fibrous. Stem solitary, erect, round, downy, from 3 to 15 

 inches high, leafy, simple, except occasionally when very luxu- 

 riant. Leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate, strongly serrated, veiny, 

 dov/ny, about an inch long ; the lower ones generally opposite ; 

 upper, or floral, ones alternate. Fl. on short solitarj- stalks, from 

 the bosoms of half, or two-thirds, of the leaves, crowded about 

 the summit of the stem. Cal. with a whitish tube and green 

 border, all over hairy and viscid. Cor. twice as long, yellow, 

 with some stains or streaks of red or purple ; the segments of 

 its lower lip rounded. Seeds minute, angular, not bordered, 



Mr. Hopkirk observed the flowers to have an agreeable, faint, 

 musky smell. Hooker. 



Linnaeus confounded this plant with his Rhinanthus Trixago, which 



