p. 249.— Hook. FI. Scot. p. 186.— Grev. FI. Edin. p. 134.— FI. Devon, pp. 103 
and 147. — Johnston’s FI. of Berw. v. i. p. 135. — Winch. FI. of Northumb. and 
Durh. p. 41.— Walk. F). of Oxf. p. 173. — Jacob’s West Devon and Cornwall 
Flora. — Bab. FI. Bath. p. 36. — Mack. Catal. of PI. of Irel. p. 57. ; FI. Hibern. 
pt. i. p. 202. — Euphrasia Odontites, Linn. Sp. PI. p.841. — Curt. FI. Lond. 
t. — Mart. FI. Rust. t. 42. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. iii. pt. i. p. 194. — Lightf. FI. 
Scot. v. i. p. 324. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 192. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 135. — Purt. 
Midi. FI. v. i. p.289. — Euphrasia pratensis rubra, Ray’s Syn. p. *284. — 
Odontites rubra, Gray’s Wat. Arr. v. ii. p. 310. — Cratceogonon Euphrosine, 
Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 91. 
Localities. — In cornfields, pastures, and waste places, especially on a wet 
clay soil ; frequent. 
Annual. — Flowers in July and August. 
Root simple, fibrous, and somewhat woody. Stem from 6 in- 
ches to a foot or more high, upright, very much branched, bluntly 
4-cornered, and roughish with small deflexed hairs ; branches op- 
posite. Leaves opposite, sessile, strap-spear-shaped, turning down, 
toothed, slightly downy, veiny, veins few, and hairy underneath. 
Bracteas spear-shaped, nearly upright, purplish. Flowers numer- 
ous, in long, unilateral racemes, or rather spike3. Calxjx (fig. 1.) 
finely downy ; the segments equal and sharp. Corolla (fig. 2.) 
rose-coloured, (sometimes white,) finely downy, the upper lip con- 
cave, scarcely notched ; the three lobes of the lower lip shorter 
than the upper, blunt, equal. Filaments hairy in the lower part 
(see fig. 3, a). Anthers smooth, except at the back and in the 
lower part, where they are hairy (see fig. 2, b, and fig. 4) ; their 
lobes are pointed, but scarcely bristly. Germen hairy, surrounded 
and sheathed at the base by a thin membrane. Style (fig. 5.) 
thread-shaped, bent in under the upper lip of the corolla before 
the flower opens, but afterwards becoming longer than the corolla ; 
stigma forming a little head. Seeds angular, striated. 
According to Linnaeus, cows, goats, sheep, and horses eat this 
plant ; and swine refuse it. Dr. Martyn observes, in his Flora 
Rustica, that with us it appears to be untouched in pastures ; and 
he informs us that he was assured by an ingenious observer, that 
when it is in full vigour, cattle, so far from eating it, will abstain 
from the grass even to the distance of some inches from the plant. 
A minute, orange-coloured fungus, Uredo Rhinanthacearum, 
Hook. Brit. FI. v. ii. pt. ii. p. 377, is very common on this plant ; 
and on Euphrasia officinalis, in the neighbourhood of Oxford, in 
the Summer and Autumn. See folio 72. 
“ O, Nature! thy minutest works amaze. 
Pose the close search, and lose our thoughts in praise !” 
Moses Brown. 
