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3. Common Melampyre. Melampyrum sylvaticum, Linn. 



(Fig. 7G8.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 113.) 



Stem erect or ascending, 6 inches to 

 a foot high, with very spreading oppo- 

 site branches, usually glabrous or nearly 

 so. Leaves lanceolate, the floral ones 

 distant from each other, short, and often 

 toothed at the base. Flowers pure yel- 

 low, in distant axillary pairs, all turned 

 one way, and about 6 to 8 lines long ; 

 the teeth of the calyx usually erect and 

 shorter than the tube, but they vary 

 much both in length and direction. 



Chiefly in woods, throughout Europe 

 and Russian Asia. Abundant in Bri- 

 tain. Fl. summer and autumn. 



Fig. 768. 



4. Small-flowered Melampyre. Melampyrum sylvaticum, 



(Fig. 769.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 804.) 



Yery near the common M., and not 

 always easy to distinguish from it. It 

 is usually a smaller plant, with the floral 

 leaves almost always entire, and the 

 flowers very much smaller, of a deep 

 yellow ; the calycine teeth are more 

 conspicuous, and the lower ones spread- 

 ing. Corolla seldom above four lines 

 long. 



A high northern and alpine plant, 

 not unfrequent in the woods of northern 

 Europe and Asia, and in the high moun- 

 tain-ranges of central Europe, the Cau- 

 casus, and Altai. In Britain, apparently 

 limited to the Scotch Highlands and 

 some parts of northern England, and 

 north Ireland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 769. 



