140 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



Epilobium angustifoUum L. Rose-bay. (Plate XXIII.) 



A handsome plant, 2-4 feet high, simple or slightly branched, 

 glabrous or somewhat hoary. Rootstock creeping, and hence and 

 also to the numerous light seeds carried by the wind, this plant is 

 rapidly increasing in Europe. Leaves lanceolate, very shortly 

 stalked, finely toothed or entire. Flowers large, purplish rose, or 

 very rarely pale pink or flesh-coloured, in long terminal racemes. 

 Pod 1-2 inches long, slightly hoary. Stigma deeply 4-lobed. 



Banks, woods and hillsides from the plains up to 5000 feet in 

 Switzerland. June, July. 



Distribution. — Mountains of Central Europe and Asia, and the 

 plains of Northern Europe, and in Norway nearly to the birch limit ; 

 Northern Asia and N. America. British. It appears frequently 

 in waste places, and has lately established itself on waste ground in 

 central London. 



Epilobium Fleischeri Hochst. (Plate XXIII.) 



Sometimes considered a dwarf Alpine variety of E. rosmarini- 

 folium Haenke =E. Dodoncei Vill. Stem ascending from a creeping 

 and woody base. Leaves linear or narrowly lanceolate, the same 

 colour on both sides, glabrous, not veined. Flowers large and hand- 

 some, bright rose-purple. Style hairy up to above the middle, 

 half as long as stamens. A cymose panicle of few flowers. Some- 

 what variable. Calyx usually dark carmine. 



Moraines and sandy, stony places by mountain torrents in the 

 Alps and sub-Alps, especially on primary formations and siliceous 

 rocks ; local, and not often seen above 7000 feet. July, August. 



Distribution. — Eastern, Central and Western Alps ; rare in the 

 Jura. Transylvania. 



ClRC^A L. 

 Circcea alpina L. 



A small, delicate green and glabrous plant resembling the common 

 Enchanter's Night-shade, but smaller in all its parts. Seldom more 

 than 6 inches high. Leaves very thin, and often glossy ; the 

 capsules smaller, less hairy, and much narrower than in the common 

 species. 



Damp, shady, and stony places and mountain woods, up to 

 6000 feet. June to August. 



Distribution. — Jura, Alps, Vosges, Cevennes, Pyrenees, Corsica ; 

 Europe from Scandinavia to the Caucasus ; Northern Asia, N. 

 America. British. 



CRASSULACE/E 



Herbs or shrubs with succulent leaves, mostly alternate ; no 

 stipules, and flowers in terminal racemes or cymes. Sepals 3 or more, 

 usually 5. Petals as many, sometimes united in a single corolla. 



