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LXII. SCROPHULARIACEjE. 
[. Euphrasia . 
3. Euphrasia Linn. Eye-bright. 
Col. tubular, 4-cleft. Upper lip of the cor. 2-lobed, the lobes 
broad ; lower one of 3 nearly equal lobes. Cells of the anthers 
mucronate at the base. Caps, ovate oblong, compressed, 2- 
celled, many-seeded. Seeds pendulous, longitudinally furrowed. 
— Named from tv<j>patvui, to delight; in allusion to the gaiety of 
its flowers. 
1. E. officinalis L. ( common E.); leaves ovate deeply toothed, 
corolla glabrous, lobes of the lower lip emarginate, of the upper 
spreading. E. B. t. 1416. 
Pastures in the plains and on the mountains, abundant. ©. 5 — 9. 
— Stein varying from 1 inch, with often only a single flower, to 6 and 
8 inches, in the Highland pastures, where it becomes very much 
branched. Flowers axillary, but crowded at the extremities of its 
branches, white or reddish, streaked with purple. Mr. Babington 
supposes that we may have two species in this country: one, the true 
E. officinalis L. which has glandular down and seeds ovate and gray- 
ish ; the other, E. nemorosa Pers„ without glandular down, and with 
seeds fusiform and yellowish ; but, as Mr. Bentham justly remarks, 
“ many forms occur in which these characters are differently com- 
bined, or pass gradually into each other.” 
4. Rhinanthus Linn. Yellow-rattle. 
Cal. inflated, 4-toothed. Upper lip of the cor. compressed 
laterally, entire, furnished on both sides below the apex with 
a straight tooth-like appendage or lobe ; lower one plane, 3- 
lobed. Ovary with many ovules. Caps, of 2 cells, obtuse, com- 
pressed. Seeds imbricate, flat and usually margined. — Named 
from piv, a nose, and avBoc, a flower ; in allusion to the beaked 
upper lip of the corolla, which is very remarkable in the R. 
Elephas. 
1. R. Crista-Gdlli L. ( common Y.) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate 
serrate, flowers in lax spikes, calyx glabrous, appendages of 
the upper lip of the corolla short roundish, bracteas ovate. 
E. B. t. 657. R. glaber Lam. R. minor Ehrh. 
Meadows and pastures, abundant. ©. 5 — 7. — Stem 1 — 2 ft. high, 
glabrous, often much branched and more or less spotted with purple. 
Leaves veiny, somewhat blunt or usually acute. Flowers axillary in the 
upper leaves or bracteas, and hence loosely spiked. The appendages of 
the upper lip of the corolla are broader than long, bluish. Bracteas 
green throughout, acute, but not with an elongated point. When the 
fruit is ripe, the seeds rattle in the husky capsule, and indicate to the 
Swedish peasantry the season for gathering in their hay. 
2. R. angustifolius Gmel. (large bushy Y .) ; leaves linear lan- 
ceolate, upper ones especially acuminate, flowers in crowded 
spikes, calyx glabrous, appendages of the upper lip of the co- 
