ON THE BRITISH FORMS OF RHINANTHUS 299 
clothing [from R. minor]. As a segregate, it should bear the name 
of Rhinanthus Drummond- Hayi 
his plant is known only: from Scotland, where it seems to be 
le ess ccusat than R. borea Mr. Druce’s specimens are from 
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n Doll, Clova (Jegit E. F. Linton), and Aon ach Beg, 97 W. Inver- 
ness, c. 2500 feet; one of these eg being about 20 cm. in height, 
and thus exceeding Sterneck’s lim 
now remains to forecast = other forms may with more or 
less probability be expected to occur within the limits of our flora. 
This task I attempt with much diffidence, but it — have a certain 
value in directing British botaniste’ attention to the subject. 
- Rhinanthus Alectorolophus Poll. (1777). A. firsntul. (1785). 
Known as far west as Belgium and Picardy; but its head-quarters 
are in Central Europe, with an was ion into ie rthern half of 
Italy. The subspecies A. buccalis Wallr. (1842) bila confined to 
conics, especialy cr oi is more likely to occur as a casual 
than as a native i in. 
2. # He seen aneeat (1899); R. ead ichus Chabert (1900). 
A, mediterraneus Sterneck (1901). This is found in France, chiefly 
south-eastwards, but appears to occur in Brittany as well as in the 
Pyrenees, so that it may possibly be detected in southern En 
or south-west Ireland, and more probably in the Channel Thlkhda, 
It has very large bracts, deeply toothed at the base; the calyx 
partly clothed with very short straight hairs; the corolla-tube 
slightly curved above; the vio aust lobes horizontal, 2 mm. long, 
conical, mene and the lower lip adpressed to the upper, thus 
closing the thro 
8. montanus Sauter (1857) ; h. major B ag eeey: Koch 
(1844). “A, serotin us Schénheit (1866) ; A. montanus Fritsch (1898). 
Distribution almos ig in R. major, but hitherto un own in Britain, 
France, and Asia Minor. Tt is an WEE gé fan parallel to 
that species, but glabrous-stemmed, with many short internodes, 
arcuate-ascending branches which equal or at the main stem ; 
linear-lanceolate leaves longer ibee the internodes; two or three 
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flowers (1-8 cm.). This is more likely to mats ered in E. Anglia 
than elsewhere. It flowers in August and September. 
_ 4. R. grenlandicus Chabert (1899). 4. pitti Os Ostenfeld 
aad) “Found in Labrador and Greenland ; probably also in Ice- 
land. This, judging from the analogy of F uphrasia latifolia Pursh, 
is by no moans an likely to grow in N.W. Scandinavia, the Faerées, 
Shetlands and Orkneys, and on the extreme northern coasts of 
Scotland. pe is described as having a stout stem, bifariously hairy, 
without black strie, with long hospi’: simple, or very rarely 
producing ie always Bai branches ; m-leay 
short of the internodes, rather fleshy, ovate-oblong, ae 
coarsely dentate, the teeth few, deep, acute, very yx 
large o: Every large, quite glebrons but for the BE s gg Sac 
dowees. ‘duel as in R. minor, Dr. von Sterneck calls it “a very 
marked type among the Minores section.’ 
