124 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Melampyrum. 



M. angustifolium cristatum, spica quadrata, floribus ex luteo pal- 



lescentibus, nostras. Pluk. Alinag. 245. Phyt.t 99. f. 2. 

 Crested Cow-wheat. Petiv. H. Brit. t.36.f. 10. 



In woods and thickets ; sometimes in corn-fields. 



Plentiful in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. Huds. In Maple- 

 bush lane, Gressenhall, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Abundantly in 

 Ripton wood Huntingdonshire. Mr. Woodward. 



Annual. July. 



Stem leafy, with wide-spreading branches, roughish to the touch, 

 ieaues long and narrow, almost linear, rough-edged, Ij or 2 

 inches in length. Spikes solitary, terminal, with close, pecti- 

 nated, purplish bracteas, each tipped with a green leafy point. 

 Fl. rather small, not quite closed, variegated with cream-colour 

 and light purple ; the palate yellow. Cal. with lanceolate teeth, 

 none of them longer than the tube, all minutely fringed, as are 

 likewise the teeth of the bracteas. Anth. of a dark dull purple. 

 Caps, crescent-shaped, thin, compressed, with 2 large seeds in 

 each cell. 



2. M. arvense. Purple Cow-wheat. 



Spikes conical. Bracteas lax, lanceolate, pinnatifid. Calyx- 

 teeth longer than the tube. Corolla closed. 



M. arvense. Linn. Sp. PL 842. Willd.v.3.l98. Fl. Br. 652. 



Engl. Bot. v.l. t. 53. Hook. Land. t. 63. Bicks. Dr. Pi. 74. 



Fl. Dan. t.9\\. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 80- 

 M. n. 310. Hall. Hist. v.\.\36. 

 M. purpurascente coma. Bauh. Pin. 234. Dill, in Raii Syn. *286. 



Moris. V. 3. 428. sect. W.t. 23. f. 1 . 

 M. multis, sive Triticura vaccinum. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 439./. 

 M. cseruleum. Ger. Em. 90. f. 



Triticum vaccinum. Trag. Hist. 663./. Dalech. Hist. 419./. 

 Braun Fleyschbliim. Brun/. Herb. v. 2. 54./. 

 Parietaria sylvestris tertia. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 45./. 



In corn-fields on a light soil. 



Near Lycham, Norfolk. Sherard. In the common field at Sporle 

 in the same county, especially among wheat. Rev. Mr. Edwards, 

 and Rev. J. S. Watts. At Swardeston and Keswick. Mr. Crowe; 

 also at Costesy and Bixley ; all near Norwich. 



Annual. July. 



Stem 1^ or 2 feet high, purplish, acutely quadrangular j the branches 

 more upright than in the foregoing. Leaves lanceolate, rough- 

 edged, a little downy on both sides ; one or two of the upper 

 pairs sometimes pinnatifid at the base. Spikes long, many- 

 flowered. Bracteas loosely spreading, deeply pectinated or pin- 

 natifid } the upper ones entirely, and the lower partially, co- 

 loured of a delicate purplish rose-colour. Fl. large, about as 

 long as the bracteas, without scent. Segments of the traZyx pe- 



