Bartsia. | LVI, SCROPHULARINES, O39 
Spikes panicled. Flowers pink. Seeds few, pendulous. ‘ . 3. B. Odontites, 
Spikes simple or nearly so. Seeds numerous. 
Spikes short. Flowers epi Gee ag Calyx campanulate. Seeds 
deeply furrowed . 1, B, alpina, 
Spikeslong. Flowers yellow. Calyx tubular, Seeds scarcely 
striated . ° y . . 2 B. viscosa. 
1. B. alpina, [Linn. (fig. ”64). Lapsed Baciee Ress hairy perennial, 
with a short rootstock, and erect stem 6 to 8 inches high. Leaves sessile, 
ovate and crenate, the floral ones rather smaller. Flowers in a short, 
leafy spike. Calyx deeply 4-lobed. Corolla of a dull livid-purple, 8 or 9 
lines long, with a tube much longer than the calyx, and very short lobes 
to the lower lip. Anthers very hairy. Capsule ovate, longer than the 
calyx, with several deeply furrowed, almost winged seeds, 
In mountain pastures, in the higher chains of central and northern 
Europe, to the Arctic regions. Rare in the higher mountains of Scotland 
and the north of England, and unknown in Ireland. FV. summer. 
2, B. viscosa, Linn. (fig. 765). Viscid Bartsia.—An erect, rigid 
annual, often above a foot high, more or less clothed with a short, 
glutinous down ; the root-fibres hard and wiry. Leaves lanceolate, coarsely 
toothed, the floral ones alternate. Flowers yellow, in a long terminal 
spike ; the calyx tubular, 6 lines long, with 4 lanceolate lobes; the corolla 
half as long again, with the lower lip longer than the upper one. Anthers 
hairy. Capsule oblong, with very numerous, minute, scarcely striated 
seeds. Hufragia viscosa, Griseb. 
In fields and pastures, chiefly near the sea, in western Europe, and round 
the whole Mediterranean region, and has established itself in the Canary 
Islands and South America. In Britain, at present confined to some of the ~ 
southern and the western maritime counties of England, to southern 
Ireland, and south-western Scotland. £7. summer and autumn. 
3. B. Odontites, Huds. (fig. 766). Red Bartsia.—An erect, branching 
annual, seldom a foot high, slightly downy, and not glutinous. Leaves 
lanceolate and toothed. Flowers of a purplish red, numerous in one-sidcd 
spikes ; the calyx campanulate, 4-cleft; the upper lip of the corolla longer 
than the lower one. Anthers scarcely hairy. Capsule oblong, with a few 
pendulous, furrowed seeds, as in Huphrasia, but with the general habit 
and corolla of a Bartsia. Huphrasia Odontites, Linn. 
In fields and waste places, all over Europe and Russian Asia, except the 
extreme north, Generally distributed over Britain. #7. summer. 
XI EUPHRASIA. EYEBRIGHT. 
Erect annuals, or, in some exotic species, perennials, closely allied to 
Bartsia, and differing chiefly in the corolla, which has the upper lip much 
less concave, with 2 lobes spreading laterally or turned back, and the lobes 
of the lower lip are more spreading, and usually notched, Seeds few, 
pendulous, and furrowed. 
There is probably but one species of the genus in the ononeen hemi- 
sphere, but several others are natives of Australia and South America, 
1. &. officinalis, Linn. (fig. 767). Common Hyebright.—A little, much 
branched annual, varying wonderfully in size, station, shape of the leaves, 
size and colour ‘of the flowers, etc., and believed to be half-parasitic on 
the roots of grasses, It is most frequently from 2 to 6 inches high, 
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