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YELLOW RATTLE, 
RHINANTHUS. 
HIE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches to the labiated kind: it is formed into 4 
tube and two lips: the tub is ftrait: the lips are comprefied at the bafe ; and the upper one is flat- 
ted, and of the galeated fhape: the under lip is fat, and divided into three fegments, of which the 
_middle one is the longeft: the cup is roundifh, fwelled, as if blown up, 
and divided into four parts © 
at the edge: the feed-veffel is rounded, and compreffed or flatteds and the feeds alfo are flatted, 
Linnaeus places this among the didynamia. angiofp-rmia; the filaments or threads 
in each flowet 
being four, two of which are longer, and two fhorter, and the feeds contained in a capfule. 
We have obferved that this genus and the pedicularis have been always called by the fame Englifi 
names. 
We have fhewn the impropriety of this, 
from the colour of the flower are not fufficient for the feparation of the two genera; 
by obferving that the epithets of diftin@ion taken 
there being one 
_ that is properly of the former, the flower of which is yellow: by the charaéter of the prefent genus 
here given, it will appear that they are quite diftina: 
I have therefore retained the namé 
Réinanthus, as it is ufeful for the diftinétion, and appropriated the two Englifh narnes diftinatively, 
giving that of coxcomb only to the preceding genus, and that of rattle only to this. 
PIVETHON RE GE RIT ISH 5 pariogne, 
3. Common yellow Rattle. 
Rhinanthus vulgaris. 
The root is fhort, flender, crooked, hatd, 
and furnifhed with many fibres, = 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, of a yel- 
lowifh green, ‘a foot high, and branched toward 
the top. 
The leaves ftand in pairs: they are oblong, 
broad, and have no footftalks : they are broadett 
at the bafe, narrower to the end, fharply in- 
dented at the edges, and terminate in a point: 
their colour is a dufky green, and their fubftance 
firm. : 
The flowers are numerous, and have a fingular 
appearance : they ftand in long feries up the tops 
of the ftalks, and principally on one fide: they 
have a great ftriated cup, like a bladder: the 
flower itfelf is fmall, and of a bright yellow. 
‘The feed-veffel is large, rounded, and flatted $ 
and the feeds are flat and brown. 
It is common in paftures, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Pedicularis pratenfis lutea 
few crifta galli. Others, Crifta galli lutea, and 
Crifta galli femina, Wein Englith, Yellow rattle, 
or Coxcomb. 
Thofe who call this the female, diftinguith 
what they call another fpecies undef the name 
of the male, but it is only a variety: the pring 
DT Velset Q ene SH, 
Hairy yellow Rattle. 
Rhinanthus foliis vilofis. 
This is a fmall but fingular and pretty plant. 
The root is longifh, crooked, flender, and full 
“of fibres. 
The {talk is round, flender, upright, of a 
redifh colour, and eight inches high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, at diftance, pair from 
pair: they have no footftalks, and they are nar- 
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cipal difference is the ftature; the male, as jt ig 
called, growing in a more favourable ground, 
and being taller, ores 
2. Narrow-leaved yellow Rattle, 
Rhinanthus foliis anguftioribus, 
The root is long, flender, crooked, and furs 
nifhed with a multitude of fibres, 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and very 
tmhuch branched, and is ufually of a redith colour. 
The leaves are numerous: they ftand in pairs, 
but at fmaller diftances by much than in the com- 
mon kind: they are very narrow, and fharply _ 
dented at the édges ; of a pale green, and not fo 
broad at the bafe as in the other.’ ij 
The flowers ftand in a long feries on the upper 
branches, and are beautifully variegated, though 
very fmall: the top of the flower is yellow, and 
the upper lip is purple. 
The whole plant is two foot high, and very 
robuft, 
The feed-veffels are long and flat; and the 
feeds are alfo flat, but fmall. 
It is frequent in paftures in the north of Eng- 
land; and flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Criffa galli anguftifolia monx 
tana. Ray, Pediculis major anguftifolia ramofifina 
lore minore luteo, labello purpurea. ° : 
FOREIGN SPE CTLBE-s, 
row, oblong, not at all ‘indented ‘at the edges, . 
and a little hairy. 
‘The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
have ftriated and {wollen cups. 
The feed-veffel is flatted, but of a rounded 
figure; and the feeds ate large. 
It is a native of Ceylon, and flowers in May. 
Burman calls it Hyfopus zeylanins renellus pre 
tenfis: but it is evidently a plant of this genus. 
li GENWS 
