pi, ex* cor. 22. RHINANTHACEiE. 71. Melamp. 31 S 
Melampyrum purpurascente coma, Raii Syn. 286 *,3. 
Melampyrum caeruleum, Ger. em. 90,3. 
Melampyrum arvense, Lin. S. P. 842. 
Blue cow-wheat. Purple cow-wheat . 
Sandy fields; annual; July. 
Stem 2 feet high, much branched, upright ; leaves lan- 
ceolate, not cut ; spike many-flowered ; bractece spreading, 
purple ; corolla closed ; apex purple. 
3. Melampyrum vulgatum. Common cow-wheat. 
Flowers axillary, one-rowed, conjugately remote ; corolla 
closed ; lip porrected ; calyx rather coloured ; lobes ascend- 
ing; ste m much branched. 
Melampyrum sylvaticum flare lufeo, sive satureja lutea sylvestris, Raii 
Syn. 286 *,2. 
Crataeogonon album, Ger. em. 91, 1. 
Crataeogonon vulgarp, Pash. 1326, 1, 
Melampyrum pratense, Lin. S. P . 843. 
Melampyrum vulgatum, Pers. Syn. 151. 
Woods and hedges; annual; July and August. 
Stem smooth ; leaves lanceolate ; hractece pinnatifid ; tube 
of the corolla white ; mouth closed, yellow ; palate fulvous. 
0. album. Corolla white, with 2 yellow spots on the 
lower lip. 
Melampyrum latifolium fiore albo, labio inferiore duabus maculis luteis 
distincto, Dillen in Raii Syn. 286 *, 2. 
4. Melampyrum alpestre. Alp cow-wheat . 
Flowers axillary, 1 -rowed, conjugately remote; corolla 
open; lip deflexed; galea hirsute; leaves linear; 2 lower 
ones reverse ovate. 
Melampyrum sylvaticum, Lin. S. P. 843. 
Melampyrum alpestre, Pers. Syn. 151. 
Alpine woods and pastures ; annual; July and August. 
Stem not much branched, roughish ; leaves not cut ; 
flowers small ; lobes of the calyx broad at the bottom ; co- 
rolla yellow, mouth fulvous. 
Fam. VI. 23. OROBANCHEiE. Link. P edicularibus 
ajflnes , Jussieu. Rhinanlhacearum 
sectio , De Candolle. 
Calyx divided, persistent, tubular; corolla bypogynous, 
ringent ; stamens 4, inserted on the corolla, didynamous ; 
anthers 2-celled; ovary free, 1-celled, glandular at the base; 
style simple; stigma 2-lobed; capsule 2-valved, 1-celled; 
valves distinct; placentarium longitudinal, on the middle 
