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green leaves, irregularly toothed, and numerous one-sided spikes 

 of small, pink flowers. While flowering, the spikes usually droop 

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

 — September. Annual. 



11. Lasiopera (Viscid Bartsia or Marsh Eye-bright). — An erect, 

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

 calyx tubular, 4-cleft ; corolla tubular, 2-lipped, yellow ; capsule 

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

 Idsios, hairy, pera, a wallet.) 



1. L. viscdsa (Yellow Viscid Bartsia). — An erect, clammy plant 

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



euphrAsia officinalis (Common Eye-brigki). 



opposite, the upper scattered ; and' axillary yellow flowers. — In the 

 south and west ; rare. Somewhat resembling the Yellow-rattle 

 Rhindnthus Crista-gdlli), but at once distinguished by its clammi- 

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

 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. Bartsia (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. (Name in honour of John Bartsch, a 

 Russian botanist.) 



