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branous border. — E. B. 657- R- Icon. I f. 974. — Lateral lobes of 
the upper lip of the cor. very blunt, shorter than broad, bluish. 
Bracts green throughout, nectary ovate. St. 1 — 2 feet high. — 
Meadows and pastures. A. VI. Yellow Rattle. 
2. R. major (Ehrh.? Sm.) ; 1. linear- lanceolate serrate, fl. in 
crowded spikes, cal. glabrous, lobes of the upper Up of the cor. 
oblong, bracts with an attenuated point inciso-serrate, seeds with 
a very narrow membranous border. — E. B. S. 2737- — Lateral 
lobes of the upper lip of the cor. longer than broad, purple. 
Bracts yellowish with green points. " Nectary heartshaped." 
This is the plant of Smith but not the R. major of Koch or Reich, 
which has, according to the fig. R. Icon. f. 975, a broad mem- 
branous margin to the seed, and the central part of the upper lip 
of the cor. as prominent as the lateral lobes. "Which is the plant 
ofEhrhart? Corn-fields in the north. A. VII. E. S. 
9. Bartsia Linn. 
1. B. alpina (L.) ; 1. opposite ovate slightly clasping bluntly 
serrate.— E. B. 361. St. 17. 15.— St. square, 4—8 in. high, 
simple. Root creeping. Fl. forming a short dense leafy spike, 
purplish-blue, downy. Cal. purplish, viscid. Anth. hairy.— 
Alpine pastures, rare. P. VI. VII. 
10. Trixago Stev. 
1. T. viscosa (R.) ; 1. opposite, upper 1. alternate ovate-lan- 
ceolate sessile acutely-serrate. — E. B. 1045. Bartsia Sm. — L. 
sometimes linear-lanceolate. St. round, 3 — 12 in. high, simple. 
Root fibrous. Fl. distant, axillary, upper ones crowded, yellow. 
Anth. hairy. St., 1., and cal. viscid. If Sir J. E. Smith is cor- 
rect in considering that the seeds afford good generic characters 
in this Order the present plant cannot be retained in Bartsia, and 
I have accordingly followed Steven in removing it from that ge- 
nus. — Damp places in the west of England, south-west of Scot- 
land, and south of Ireland. A. VII. — IX. 
11. Euphrasia Linn. 
1. E. officinalis (L.) ; 1. ovate or cordate-ovate nearly sessile 
serrate (3 — 5 teeth on each side), cor. glabrous, lobes of the lower 
lip emarginate, of the upper lip patent sinuate-dentate, anth. un- 
equally mucronate hairy. — E. B. 1416. — St. 1 — 8 in. high. Fl. 
axillary, solitary, sessile, crowded towards the ends of the 
branches. A peculiarly variable plant of which it is next to im- 
possible to define the varieties, and indeed, from their inconstancy, 
it is scarcely desirable to do so. The 1. are ovate or cordate- 
ovate or cordate-triangular, with the teeth acute or obtuse, 
ascending or spreading. The caps, varies in shape, the upper 
lip of the cor. in toothing, and the whole plant except the cor. 
