156 VERONICA. PEDICtlLARIS. 



23. V. Buxbaumu=Y. filiformis, Berw. Fl. i. 225. pi. 1 . Gray Brit. 

 PI. ii. 734 =V. agrestis ft. pedunculata, Stokes, Bot. Comment, i. 63. 

 Edin. Joum. Nat. and Geogr. Sc. i. 377. — Naturalized in a few 

 places, but apt to be lost for a season from the shifts of crops in agri- 

 culture. B. In a shrubbery at Whiterig in Ayton parish. A little 

 to the west of the pleasant farm-house of Foulden-burn, G. Hender- 

 son. — N. In a corn-field at Chatton abundantly, Sept. 1846. It is 

 a weed occasionally in gardens. 



406. V. ARVENSis. Gravelly and hght soils, common. Often 

 found on earth-capped dikes. May. 



407. Bartsia odontites = Euphrasia odontites. Ball in Ann. 

 and Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. iv. 29. — Corn-fields and new pastures, 

 and road-sides in moorish districts ; the common and unwholesome 

 produce of a cold clay soil. July, Aug. 



408. Euphrasia officinalts. Smith's PL of Kent, 32. — VB^t" 

 brigJjt. — Heaths and barren pastures. Often in deans on sunny 

 banks. The variety (fi. exigua, Edmons. Fl. Shet. 19) with small 

 pretty purplish flowers is frequent on every moor. Summer. 



409. Ehinanthtjs crista-galli. ^tXloto^SRattle. Very com- 

 mon in cultivated fields with a muirish soil ; and on moor pastures. 

 From the shape of the capsules the plant is called <SoiDfe')JsSi>:pmtt£i ; 

 and as the capsules rattle when in seed, it is also called ©oiofe'ji 

 iiintr, being, hke the fool, unable to conceal its wealth. June. 



410. Melampyrtjm pratense. Hooker Brit. Fl. (1830) i. 285. 

 — Deans and natural woods, abundant wherever it occurs, and it 

 is not uncommon ; as in the woods B. about Hound wood and Pen- 

 manshiel ; on the wooded banks of the Whiteadder at Abbey St. 

 Bathans ; and of the Monnienut burn, &c. The variety /3. monta- 

 num (=M. montanum, Berw. Fl. i. 136 ; ii. 284 : and Edin. Joum. 

 Nat. and Geogr. Sc. i. 377) grows profusely on Cheviot. What 

 seems to be an intermediate state may be gathered on Hepburn hill 

 at Chillingham, and on Yevering-Bell. July. — The figure of M. 

 pratense in Eng. Bot. ii. 113, does not express the habit of the plant 

 as it is found with us. 



As there is reason to suspect that the genera Bartsia, Euphrasia, 

 Rhinanthus and Melampyrum are parasitical, and draw their nourish- 

 ment from the roots of the plants and grasses they grow among, it 

 becomes more imperative on the cultivator to attempt their eradica- 

 tion. See Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. xx. p. 209 ; and Ser. 2. ii. p. 294. 



411. M. SYLVATiCTJM. Rare. B. Banks of the Dye above 

 Longformacus, Rev. T. Brown. July. 



412. Pedicularis palustris. i@cat(man'S JSclIotoS. Marshy 

 and boggy places, especially on moors, common. July. 



36. Rhinanthus major := R. angustifolius. — N. " I also observed it this 

 year, 1/23, amongst the corn nigh Westnewton, in Northumberland, upon 

 the borders of Scotland." Dr. Richardson. It has never occurred to me. 



