LXIL SGROPHULAKIACEiEU 



SOS 



BdrtsiaJ}^ 



same may be said of the two next species, and of soine Continental 

 ones, especially V, acinifolia, 



16. V. ve?ma L. (vernal S.) ; leaves ineiso-pinnatifid, the 

 upper ones or bracteas Lanceolate entire, pedicels shorter than 

 the calyx,^ capsule broadly obcordate compressed emaro-inate 

 with roundish ciliated lobes, seeds 12 — 14 thin flat. 

 t. 25. 



About Thetford, Bury, and Mildenhall, Suffolk, 0. 



upright, scarcely branching plantj allied to F. 





4,5. 



Very rare. 



A very small, 



arvensis. 



17. YArypliyllosJ^. (hlunt-Jingered S.) \ leaves broadly ovate 

 incised lowermost ones petiolate, upper or bracteas sessile digi- 

 tate the segments obtuse, pedicels longer than the calyx, cap-^ 

 sules obcordate compressed with roundish ciliated lobes, seeds 

 many concave on the one side. E. B, t. 26. 



Very rare; in sandy fields, about Thetford, Bury, and Mildenhall, 



Suffolk. Acomb near York, ©. 4 Stem 3 — A inches high, with 



spreading branches. Flowers a very deep blue, the lowerm.ost often 

 on much elongated pedicels. 



B. Stamens 4, and usually didynamous (in British species), 



(Gen. 2—12.) 



2. Baktsia^ Liiin, Bartsia. 



CaL tubular, mostly coloured, 4-cIeft. Cor. ringent with a 



contracted orifice ; upper lip arched, entire or emargmate ; 



lower one in 3 equal reflexed lobes. Anthers mostly hairy, 



cells mucronate at the base. Caps, ovate^oblong, compressed, 



^vith '1 cells and many seeds. — ISTamed in honour of John 



Bartsch, a Prussian botanist, and friend of Linnaius, who died 

 at Surinam. 



1. B. alpiua L. (alpine B.) ; stem erect hairy, leaves opposite 

 ovate obtusely serrate, upper ones cordate-amplexicaul, ilowers 

 in a terminal short leafy spike, anthers hairy. B. J5. t. 361. . 



Rocky alpine pastures ; rare. Near Orton, Westmoreland; Mid- 



dletou Teesdale, on the Yorkshire and Durham sides of the river. 



Meal-ghyrdhy, Mcal-cuachlar, and Ben Lawers, in Breadalbane: Scot- 

 land. 11. 6- 



^. 6 — 8. — Stems about a span high^ simple, several from the 

 same root. Upper leaves or bracteas ohen tinged with purple. Flowers 

 large, deep purplish-blue, downy; lips of equal, length. 



iln n^\^* ^emham and others have latelv divided this genus into several, which we 



spnllii ^^^V^i^er necessary to adopt in a local flora, where we have only one repre- 

 sentative of each : they are — J t 



1. B.4RTSU. Seeds numerous, transverse, longitudinally ribbed or winged. 



(B. 



2. EupHHAGiA. Seeds very numerous and minute, scarcely striated under a lens- 



3. Odontites. Seeds numerous, pendulous. (B, Odoniiies,) 



me last has been united to Euphrasia by Mr. Babington. 



