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A NEW FORM OF EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS UL. 
ROM SCOTLAND 
By F. Townsenp, M.P., F.L.S. 
(Puate 305.) 
_ A REMARKABLE form Ms Euphrasia oceurs abundantly in the wet 
boggy ground of the enclosed ee of the heath which lies 
between the Established a Free Manses at Braemar. Euphrasia 
gracilis Fries, is common on the are paris of the heaths and 
moors around Braemar; and though the Manse plant, when fresh, 
reminds one of F. g gracilis by its — rl nk sare habit of growth, 
the stem being erect and simple, or with one or two pairs of sub- 
erect branches, yet in other berbects it differs 3 much from Fries’s 
plant. The flowers are white, the upper lip being only faintly 
tinged with lilac; they are about the size of those of gracilis, but 
the lower lip is not longer than the upper, and the three lobes of 
the former are about Ps the foliage is ne arta bri 
E. Rostkoviana. The herbage among which the ne grows and 
on the ie of which it is parasitic, consists of Carex flava, C. ineas 
0: . panicea, C. pulicaris, an ie Seger supinus. ‘The spongy 
stdietied « on the roots of the parasite, umerous, by aw it is 
attached to the 1056 of the plants on rohieh it feeds. 
I should certainly place this new form with my Section 
Graciles, but it differs so much from the type EZ. gracilis Wee. and 
from anything I have seen, either in the fresh el or in herbaria, 
I _ with it the small forms which occur in the bogs on the high 
oors. It is more than likely that it occurs in other parts 
of Scotland. 
The following are the distinguishing characters :— 
Euphrasia paludosa mihi.— Stem erect, straight, 4-8 i in. long, 
dec , whitish, i 
below, lowest flower about the middle ‘of the stem. Leaves and 
bracts rigid, ovate- Blog or ovate, their borders ished with 
short, stiff pubescence, otherwise nearly glabrous, their under 
surface ied occasionally their upper with whitish scaly efflorescence; 
teeth triangular, 3-4 on either side, of lower leaves and bracts ob- 
Calyx usually shorter than the bracts; teeth spreading, broad, trian- 
gular, acute, equalling or aeagi pea the capsule; veins and 
JournaL or Botany, [Jung, 1891.) M 
