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apex, sep. linear-lauceolate acute equalling or slightly longer 
than the pet., caps, linear straight erect. — E. B. 1917- — L. 
broadest at about their middle. St. 3 — I feet high. E. macro- 
carpum (Steph.) Ann. Nat. Hist. viii. 170. — /$. brachycarpum ; 1. 
narrowly lanceolate, peduncles about equal to the germen, rl. buds 
oblong- lanceolate obliquely acute, caps, spreading. — 1*. gradually 
narrowing upwards from below the middle. E. brachycarpum 
(Leight.) A. N. S. viii. 401.— Damp shady places. P. VII. 
** Style erect, leaves alternate the lower ones opposite, col. with 
a short tube. 
t Stem without elevated lines. 
2. E. hirsuttim (L.) ; woolly, I. opposite clasping slightly de- 
current oblong-lanceolate denticulate-serrate upper ones alter- 
nate, stigmas 4-cleft, root stoloniferous. — E. B. 838. — St. 4 — 5 
feet high, branched. L. most hairy upon the nerves. Fl. large. 
A very villose form is the E. intermedium Merat. — Wet places 
by rivers and ditches. P. VII. VIII. Great Willow-herb. 
3. E. parvijiorum (Schreb.) ; downy, 1. sessile lanceolate den- 
ticulate lower ones opposite and slightly stalked, stigmas 4-cleft, 
root fibrous without scions. — E. B. 795. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, 
nearly simple. L. uniformly hair)-. Fl. small. A dwarf woolly 
form with ovate obtuse leaves occurs in Jersey. — In wet places. 
P. VII. VIII. 
4. E. montanum (L.) ; I. ovate-oblong rounded at the base toothed 
shortly stalked, upper ones sessile, st. round pubescent, stigma 
4-cleft, root without scions. — E. B. 1177- St. 72. 7- — Base of the 
st. decumbent and rooting but not creeping. Margins and veins 
of the leaves pubescent. St. 1 — 2 feet high, slightly branched ; 
or, in fi. ramosissimum, 6 — 18 in. high, greatly branched, leaves 
ovate ; in y. humile, st. 3 — 6 in. high decumbent below, 1. small 
ovate. — S. lanceolatum (Koch) ; 1. lanceolate with a wedgeshaped 
base all stalked. St. 1 foot high, scarcely branched but with 
tufts of leaves or abbreviated shoots in the axils of nearly all the 
leaves. E. lanceolatum Seb. and Mauri Fl. Rom. 1. 1. f. 2., Bert. 
E. mont. var. lanceolatum Koch in St. 72. 9. Bertoloni says that 
the Italian plant is different from that of Koch, yet my specimens 
agree exactly with both the figures. — In hilly places, y. on 
mountains. <5. Jersey. P. VI. VII. 
5. E. paluslre (L.) ; I. narrowly lanceolate with a wedgeshaped 
base entire or denticulate sessile, st. round, stigma undivided 
scions filiform. — E. B. 346. — L. usually quite entire, very nar- 
row. St. 6 — 18 in. high, pubescence often collected into 2 de- 
current lines but the stem itself is truly terete. Raceme usually 
nodding. — In boggy places. P. VII. VIII. 
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