1 ft. high Bracteas always entire. Cor. deep yellow, very small 

 quite unlike that of the preceding species. 



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S06 LXii. SCROPHULARIACE^. IMelampyrum. 



obliquely acuminate, opening on one side. CeZZ^ 1— 2-seeded 

 Seeds oblong, even (not striate), gibbous at the base.— Named 

 from iieXac, hlacli, and Ttvpog, wheat Its seeds resemble grains of 

 wheat, and are said, when mixed with flour, to make the bread 

 black. 



1. M, cristaiam L. (crested C); spikes densely imbricated 

 4-sIded, bracteas cordate acuminated finely ciliato-dentate 

 jE*. JB, t. 41. 



"Woods, thickets, and sometimes in corn-fields, chiefly m Norfolk* 

 Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire. ©. 7. — j\^ 

 beautiful plant, as is the following. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, en- 

 tire. ^ Bracteas rose-coloured at the base. Flowers yellow, purple 

 within the upper lip, solitary in the axil of each bractea or floral-leaf 

 as in all the rest of the genus. 



2. M. arvenseD. (purple C.) ; spikes oblong lax bracteas 

 ovate-lanceolate attenuate pinnatilid with subulate segments 

 -teeth of the calyx much longer than the tube, lips of the^oroUa 

 closed. £!. B. t. 53. 



Corn-fields and dry gravelly banks, rare. Near Norwich. Isle of 

 Wight. ©. 6—8. — Spikes o^ flowers much larger than in the pre- 

 ceding, and exceedingly handsome, from the bright varied colours, 

 yellow, purple, rose-colour, and green, of the blossoms and bracteas! 

 the latter have elevated glandular points beneath. Cat. hispid, as lono* 

 as the tube of the corolla. ^ 



3. M. pratense L. {common yellow C.) ; flowers axillary se- 

 cund, leaves in distant pairs, corolla 4 times as long as the 

 calyx closed, tlie lower lip straight. — a. leaves glabrous, upper 

 bracteas 1— 2-toothed at the base. E. B. t. 113. — /3. smaller 

 and somewhat succulent, leaves glabrous, bracteas quite entire. 

 M. montanum JoJinst. Fl. of Berw. — y. leaves hispid, bracteas 

 with diverging and declining teeth at the base. . J ** 



Groves and thickets (not in meadows, as the name would imply), ""' 



frequent, /3. Mountains, y. Banks of the Wye below Monmouth. 

 0. 5 — 8, — Stem 1 ft. or more high, slender, with straggling oppo- 

 site branches. Flowers large, pale yellow : lower lip nearly straight 1 Cl^.S-lo 

 (not deflexed), and the palate is raised so as to close the mouth of ] ?fce,its 



■floivered yellow C.)',^oviQYS&xi\- V*"i' 

 lary secund, leaves in distant pairs, corolla scarcely twice as 

 long as the calyx open, the lips equal in length, lower one de- 

 flexed, bracteas quite entire. E. B. t. 804. 



Alpine woods. Rare in the north of England. More general, but 

 very local m Scotland ; in several parts of Perthshire ; Auchindrane, 

 woods on the Doune, Craigs of Ness, Ayrshire, &c. 7 _ Stem 



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