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THE SCROPHULATCIA FAMILY. 



Alpine Bartsia. Bartsia alpina, Linn. (Kg. 759.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 361.) 



A hairy perennial, with a short root- 

 stock, 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. FL 

 summer. 

 Fig. 759. 



2. Viscid Bartsia. Bartsia viscosa, Linn. (Fig. 760.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1045.) 



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 alter- 

 nate. Flowers yellow, in a long termi- 

 nal spike; the calyx tubular, 6 lines 

 long, with 4 lanceolate lobes ; the co- 

 rolla half as long again, with the lower 

 lip longer than the upper one. Anthers 

 hairy. Capsule oblong, with very nu- 

 merous, minute, scarcely striated seeds. 



In fields and pastures, chiefly near 

 the sea, in western Europe, and round 

 the whole Mediterranean region, and 

 has established itself in the Canary Is- 

 lands and South America. In Britain, 

 at present confined to some of the 



Fig. 760. 



