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that is, Fairies' glove. The leaves yield a valuable medicine, which 

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

 Biennial. 



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

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

 corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip with 



2 spreading lobes ; the lower lip in 



3 nearly equal lobes ; anthers spurred 

 at the base ; capsule flattened, blunt, 

 or notched ; seeds numerous, ribbed. 

 (Name from the Greek euphrdsano, 

 I clear, in allusion to its use as an 

 eye-lotion.) 



1. E. officinalis (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 and near 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 ; calyx 4-cleft ; corolla 2-lipped, 

 the upper lip arched, entire, or 

 notched, not spreading, the lower lip with 3 reflexed lobes ; capsule 

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

 odous, a tooth, some species having hollowed tooth-like scale-leaves 

 like those of the Tooth-wort.) 



1. 0. rubra (Red Bartsia). — A much-branched, erect, herba- 

 ceous plant, 6 — 12 in. high, with linear-lanceolate, dingy, reddish- 



pigitXlis purpurea 

 {Purple Foxglove). 



