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that is, Fairies' glnve. The leaves yield a:valuable medicine, ^\'hich 

 is, however, poisonous in large doses. — Fl. June — September. 

 Biennial. 



9. Euphrasia (Eye-Bright). — P.irtially parasitic plants with 

 opposite cut leaves, and flowers in a bracteate spike ; calyx 4-cleFt ; 



corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip with 



2 spreading lobes ; the lower Up in 



3 nearly equal lobes ; anthers spurred 

 at the base ; capsule flattened, blunr, 

 or notched ; 5ff(/i numerous, ribbed. 

 (Name from the Greek cuphrdsano, 

 I clear, in allusion to its use as an 

 eye-lotion.) 



I. E. otficindlis (Common Eye- 

 bright). — An elegant little plant, 

 2 — 6 in. high, with deeply cut leaves, 

 and numerous white or lilac flowers 

 veined with purple, and with the 

 middle lobe of the lower lip yellow. 

 — It is common in pastures ; but it 

 is so variable that botanists dis- 

 tinguish a number of forms, of 

 which seventeen are British, differ- 

 ing in the bracts, size of flowers, 

 capsules, and seeds. On the moun- 

 tains andjnear the sea the stem is 

 scarcely branched, and the leaves 

 are fleshy ; but in rich soil it 

 assumes the habit of a minute shrub. 

 An infusion of this plant makes a 

 useful eye-lotion.- Fl. May — Sep- 

 tember. Annual. 



10. Odontites. — Partially para- 

 sitic plants with opposite leaves, and 

 flowers in branched spikes with leafy 

 bracts : calvx 4-cleft ; corolla 2-lipped, 

 the upper lip arched, entire, or 

 notched, not spreading, the Unner lip with 3 rellexed lobes ; capsule 

 flattened, blunt ; seeds numerous, angular. (Name from the Greek 

 odoiis, a tooth, some species having holldwed tooth-like scaledeaves 

 like those of the Tooth-worl.) 



I. 0. ri'thra ( ived ISartsia). — .'X much-branched, erect, herba- 

 ceous plant, — 12 in. high, with linear-lanceolate, dingy, reddish- 



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