MELAMPYEUM. 
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St. 30. 15. — Very small ; st. 0, except the naked stoles. Fl. 
small, white or rose-coloured. Caps, minute, ovoid, [fi. tenni. 
folia (Hook, f.); smaller, 1. linear.] — Muddy places where Water has 
stagnated. A. VII.-IX. E.S.I. 
7. Melampy'eum Linn. Cow -wheat. 
1. J/, cristdtum (L.) ; spikes detisely imbricate 4-sided, bracts 
hea rtshaped acuminate pectinate-dentate lower ones with a long 
leaflike recurved point. — E. B. 41. — Bracts rose-coloured at 
the base. Fl. yellow, tinged with purple. L. linear-lanceolate, 
acute, entire, with netted veins beneath. St. 8 — 12 in. high. — 
Woods and thickets in the Eastern Counties. A. VII. Crested 
Cow-wheat. E. 
2. M.arven'seih.) ; spikes lax conical, b7-actsovate-l aticeolate- 
<i*<e?i?OT^e pinnatifid with subulate segments and with a few 
large glandular points beneath, cal. hispid equalling the cor.- 
tube with long lanceolate-attenuate teeth from an ovate base, 
cor. closed. — E. B. 53. — Bracts purple-rose-colour. Fl. varie- 
gated with yellow, rose-colour, and purple. L. linear-lanceolate, 
acute, rough-edged, slightly downy on both sides, entire. St. 
8 — 18 in. high. — Corn -fields and drj^ banks in the Eastern 
Counties and the Isle of "Wight. A.-VII. Purple Coiv-wheat. 
E. 
3. M. praten'se (L.) ; fl. axillary secundin distant pairs, upper 
bracts lanceolate with 1 or 2 teeth at the base, cw. 4 times as 
long as the glabrous calyx closed, loicer lip projecting. — E. B. 
113. — Teeth and tube of the cal. about equal in length. L. 
lanceolate, or [var. latifolium Schueb.& Mart.] ovate-lanceolate, 
or with a cordate base, entire, varying greatly in size. Fl. large, 
pale yellow, horizontally patent. St. 6 — 12 in. high. — ;8. 
ericetorum (D. Oliv.) ; hispid, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
bracts toothed, fl. near together, cor.-tube whitish. — y. moyita- 
num (.Johust.) ; smaller in all its parts, bracts quite entire, 1. 
linear-lanceolate hispid, the 2 lower obovate-lanceolate blunt. — 
0. hiayis (Druce) ; " cor. deep yellow, with open lips, palate not 
closing tube." — Woods and thickets. j8. West of. Ireland, y. 
Mountains. A. VI.— VIII. E. S. I. 
4. Jf. sylvat'icum (L.) ; fl. axillary secund in distant pairs, 
bracts mostly all entire linear-lanceolate, cor. about twice as 
long as the glabrous calyx, ope?; lijys equal in length. — E. B. 
804. — Teeth of the cal. longer than the tube. L. linear-lanceo- 
late, entire. Fl. very small, deep yellow, erect. St. 12 in. high. 
—Alpine woods. A. VII. E. S. I. 
