ONAGEACEtE. 



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leafless, terminal racemes. Pedicels 

 about 2 lines long, turned down after 

 flowering. Capsule small, pear-shaped, 

 covered with stiff, hooked hairs, forming 

 a small burr. Seeds 2. 



In woods and shady situations, 

 throughout Europe and central and 

 Kussian Asia, except the extreme north, 

 and in North America. Abundant in 

 England and Ireland, but scarce in Scot- 

 land. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 34/7. 



2. Alpine Circsea. Circsea alpina, Linn. (Eig. 348.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1057, not good.) 



Closely resembles the common species, 

 of which it may be a mountain variety, 

 but is smaller in all its parts, and usually 

 quite glabrous, except the fruit. It is 

 seldom above 6 inches high ; the leaves 

 are thinner, and often glossy ; the cap- 

 sules smaller, less hairy, much narrower, 

 and usually contain only a single seed, 

 owing to the almost constant abortion of 

 one of the cells. 



In woods, and stony places, chiefly 

 in mountain districts, in Europe and all 

 across Eussian Asia, often ascending to 

 great altitudes, and penetrating further 

 northward than the common C, but ap- 

 parently not an Arctic plant. Abun- 

 dant in Scotland, extending into the 

 north of England, but disappearing in 

 the south ; in Ireland both in the north 

 and in Cork county. Fl. summer. A 

 larger variety has sometimes been described as a distinct species, under 

 the name of C. intermedia, a name also occasionally given to smaller 

 states of the common C. 



z 2 



Fig. 348. 



