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9. PBDictTLAUis. Cal. inflated, 5-tootlied. Oor. ringent ; 

 upper lip compressed laterally ; lower plane, 3-lobed. Caps. 

 compressfed, acute. Seeds many, angular. 



10. Ehinanthtjs. Cal. inflated, 4r-toothed. Cor. ringent; 

 upper lip compressed laterally ; lower plane, S-lobed. Cajys. 

 compressed, blunt. Seeds many, compressed, loith an orbi- 

 cular margin. — Alecterolophus (Hall.). 



11. Babtsia. Cal. bellshaped, 4r&i. Cor, tubular, ringent ; 

 upper lip much arched, not compressed. Caps, pointed ; 

 cells many-seeded. Seeds compressed at the hile and with 

 winged ribs at the back (large). 



12. EuFEAGiA. Cal. tubular, 4-cleft. Cor. tubular, 2-lipped. 

 Caps, pointed ; cells many-seeded. Seeds slightly angidar, 

 very minute, crenate-ribbed ; hile basal. 



13. EuPHKASiA. Cal. tubular or bellshaped, 4-fid or 4-toothed. 

 Cor. tubular, 2-lipped ; lower lip with 3 notched or emar- 

 ginate lobes. Anth. unequally pointed. Caps, blunt or 

 emarginate ; cells many-seeded. Seeds rather angular, 

 longitudinally ribbed ; hile subapical. 



14. Odontites. Lower cor.-lip with 3 entire lobes. Anth. 

 with 2 equal points ; otherwise like Euphrasia. 



16. SiBTHonpiA. Cal. in 5 deep spreading segments. Cor. 

 rotate, irregularly 5-cleft. Caps, compressed, orbicular, 

 2-seeded, 2-valved. 



*** Stamens 2. 



16. Vbhonica. Cal. 4 — 5-parted. Cor. rotate, unequally 

 4-lobed, lower lobe the smallest. Caps, compressed, 2- 

 oelled. 



1. Veebas'ctjm Linn.^ Mtillein. 



* Leaves strongly decurrent. JRaceme dense, nearly simple. 



1. V. Thap'sus (L.) ; 1. ovate-oblong crenate densely woolly 

 on both sides all decurrent, st. simple, spike dense, pedicels 

 shorter than the calyx, cor. rotate, segments oblong blunt filar- 

 ments woolly 2 longer nearly glabrous, anth. all nearly equal. — 

 K B. 649. V. Schraderi Koch, R. xx. 1637.— St. 4—5 feet high. 

 Cor. about twice as long as the calyx. Filaments with white 



1 Hybrids occur in thia genus. Four are figured in 8y. E. B. 

 t. 843, 844, 845, 846. 



