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green leaves, irregular!)' toothed, and numerous one-sided spikes 

 of small, pink flowers, \^'hile flowering, tile spikes usually droop 

 at their ends. — Cornfields and waste places j common. — Fl. June 

 — September. Annual. 



II. I^.'i.suirKRA (A^iscid Bartsia or Marsh Eye-bright). — An erect, 

 clammy plunl with the lower leaves opposite, the upper scattered ; 

 ealyx tubular, 4-cleft ; corolla tubular, 2-lipped, yellow ; capsule ■ 

 pointed ; seeds many, minute, angular. (Name from the Greek 

 Idsios, hairy, pera, a wallet.) 



I. L. viscosa (Yellow Viscid Bartsia). — An erect, clammy plant 

 with sessile, ovate-lanceolate, deeply serrated leaves, the lower 



EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS (Ci^ll! I/H^7I I-\vC-!'r?\zljf\ 



opposite, the uppey scattered ; and' axillary yellow flmeers. — In the 

 south and west ; rare. Somewhat resemljling the A'ellow-rattle 

 Rhineiiilluis Crista-geillt), but at once distinguished by its clammi- 

 ness. It looks very different in Sussex, where it is less than afoot 

 high and unbranched, from what it does at the Lizard, where it is 

 more than twice as tall and much branched; — Fl. June — October. 

 Annual. 



12. Bartsi.v (Red Eye-bright). — A low, unbranched, perennial 

 plant, with leaves opposite : calyx bell-shaped, 4-fid ; corolla 

 tubular, ringent, the upper lip much arched, not compressed'. 

 capsule ovoid, produced into a long point ; seeds many, large, 

 compressed and winged. (Xame in honour of John Bartsch, a 

 Russian botanist.) 



