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304 LXII. SCOPHULAPJACE^. [Etip/i 



to its properties. 



1. E. officinalis L. {common E.) ; leaves ovate deeply toothed, 

 corolla glabrous, lobes of the lower lip emarf^inate, E B 

 t. ]416. 1 o 



i^rasia, 



2. B. viscosa L. (yellow viscid J3.) ; leaves lanceolate inciso- 

 serrate, upper ones alternate, flowers solitary axillary distant 

 lower lip large with two tubercles, anthers hairy. E. B. t. 104o' 



Pastures, in many places in the West of England and Wales and 



South-west of Scotland and South of Ireland. Jersey. 0. 6 lo 



Flowers yellow, handsome. 



3. B. Odontites Huds. (red B.) ; leaver linear-lanceolate re- 

 motely serrate, upper ones (or bracteas) alternate, flowei-s iu 

 unilateral racemes, anthers nearly glabrous, stem branched erect ! #"^''1 

 scabrous pubescent. — a. leaves attenuate at the base, calyx- ' p -<veL 

 segments lanceolate as long as the tube, filaments and stio-ma 

 hairy, capsule oblong. E. B, t. 1415. — /3. leaves broader at 

 the base, calyx-segments broadly triangular one half the leno-th 

 of the tube, filaments and stigma nearly glabrous, capsule 

 broadly oval almost r-onnded. — Odontites rotundata Ball in 

 Ann. Nat. HisL 2nd ser. iv. p. 30. 



Corn-fields and waste places, frequent. ^. Sussex and Cambridge- 

 sliire. 0, 6' — 8. — Racemes many, long, erect. Flowers reddish- 

 purple, pubescent. Anthers connected together by a few hairs, and 

 having a few glands or clavate hairs along the connectivum at the 

 back, otherwise glabrous. We have seen no specimens o?var. ^8., but it 

 does not seem to differ in any essential points from the more commou 

 forms. 



3. Euphrasia Linn. Eye-bright. 



Cal tubidar, 4-cIeft. Upper Up of the cor. 2-lobed, the lobes 

 broad ; lower one of 3 nearly equal lobes. Cells of the anthers 



1 1, ai 



mucronate at the base. Caps, ovate-oblong, compressed, 2- 

 celled, many-seeded. Seeds pendulous, longitudinally ribbed.— I *7 



"oy (froni£u, z^'eZ/, and ./)|0?;3^,"themM, in allusion 1 V' / 



A ovate 



t B, i. t 



Com-lieli 

 olserves [h 



peeo point, 

 to base, 

 if ed, pur 

 more [\ 



Pastures in the plains and on the mountains, abundant. 0. 5 9. 



Ste?n varying from 1 inch, with often only a single flower, to 6 and 

 8 mches, in the Highland pastures, where it becomes very much 

 branched. Flowers axillary, but crowded at the extremities of its 

 branches, white or reddish, streaked with purple. 



4. Rhixanthus Linn. Yellow-rattle. 



C«Z inflated, 4-toothed. Upper lip of the cor. compressed | U\\ 



laterally entire, furnished on both sides below the apex with . fH tn 



a straiglit tooth-like appendage or lobe; lower one plane, 3- ii\l 



lobed. Ovary with many ovules. Caps, of 2 cells, obtuse, com- ^ 

 pressed, beeds imbricated, flat and usually maro-ined —JSTamed 



