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E. \scotica Wettst.] Above Llyn Padarn, Carnarvon, v.c. 49, 
Aug. 30, 1924.- — J. L. O’Loughlin. This is not E. scotica, but an 
unbranched form of E. nemorosa resembling it. In E. scotica the 
stem is slenderer and more strict, with much longer internodes 
and fewer leaves with less acute teeth. Its corolla is also smaller. 
— H.W.P. 
Euphrasia Rough pasture, Bull’s Hill, Marshfield, 
W. Gloster, Aug. 30 and Sept. 18, 1924. — H. S. Thompson. 
One of the slender forms of E. nemorosa , approaching E. gracilis 
Fr.— H.W.P. 
E. curta Wettst., var. glabrescens Wettst. [No. 413] Criccieth, 
Carnarvonshire, v.c. 49, Sept. 4, 1924. — H. W. Pugsley. These 
specimens, which unfortunately are not well dried owing to the 
wet weather during my stay at Criccieth, represent what I 
believe to be the plant intended by Wettstein under this varietal 
name (Mon. Euphrasia, p. 133). Some are so hairy that they 
might almost be regarded as typical E curta, while others show 
very few hairs indeed on the foliage, though more on the calyx. 
The material was collected over a considerable area of rough 
common near the sea, where no other Eyebright was seen ; and 
though there was a little E. gracilis in one spot in the vicinity, I 
think it unlikely that any of the specimens are hybrids. Wett- 
stein states that E. curta, var. glabrescens can be best distinguished 
from E. nemorosa, which, he says, is always completely glabrous, 
by the presence of bristly hairs on the upper side and edges of 
the leaves. Many British plants, however, which otherwise do 
not agree with E. curta, but rather with E. nemorosa , produce 
short foliar hairs, especially on the leaf-margins, and these have 
been distinguished by Dr. Drabble as E. nemorosa, var. ciliata in 
Journ. Bot. liv. 75 (1916). Formerly such forms were often 
named by British botanists E. curta, var. glabrescens, and some of 
them seem to form connecting links between the two species. 
Rouy (FI. Fr. xi. 154) follows Chabert in reducing E. curta to a 
variety of E. nemorosa. Wettstein relies largely on the different 
geographical area of the two plants for their separation as species, 
and E. curta is evidently the more northern form. But the 
monographer’s distribution for Britain is inaccurate. He s'hows 
E. curta as extending from the extreme north of Scotland, down 
the east and south coasts to the Isle of Wight, and the range of 
E. nemorosa as contiguous with it on the west, without overlap- 
ping but including the greater part both of England and Scot- 
land. Townsend pointed out that the E. curta of the Isle of 
Wight was E. occidentalis, and later records show that the occur- 
