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SPECIES II— SCROPHULARIA EHRHARTI. Stev. 
Plate DCCCCXLVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. VoL XX. Tab. MDCLXXII. 
S. aquatica, Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 17. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. i. p. 515. 
Reich. Fl. Excurs. p. 377. 
S. alata, " Glib." Reich. Jit. 1. c. p. 25. 
S. uwbrosa, Dumortier ? Fl. Beige, p. 37. 
Rootstock not tuberous. Stem acutely quadrangular, with 
the angles broadly winged. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, with 
winged petioles, acute, serrate or crenate-serrate, without lateral 
lobes from the wing of the petiole ; the lower ones often sub-cor- 
date at the base and generally obtuse. Flowers in lax divaricate 
axillary corymbose cymes arranged in an elongate lax panicle. 
Bracts all like the leaves. Pedicels slender, with a few gland-tipped 
hairs, 3 to 6 times as long as the calyx at the time of flowering. 
Divisions of the calyx obovate-orbicular, with broad scarious 
margins. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, not contracted at 
the throat. Abortive stamen deeply notched, transversely 
linear-reniform. Capsule globose, obtuse and apiculate. Plant 
glabrous. 
By the banks of streams and wet places. Local. It has occurred 
at Wilmington, Sussex ; formerly in Belsize Park, Middlesex ; 
near Truestry, Herefordshire ; Staffordshire ; near Preston, Lan- 
cashire; Ilkley, near Gisborne, Yorkshire ; banks of the Whitadder, 
Berwick-on-Tweed ; banks of the Almond, about Cramond Bridge, 
near Edinburgh. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
This plant has been very unaccountably confounded with 
S. aquatica of Linnaeus, but has much more the habit of S. nodosa. 
It is usually a more luxuriant plant than S. aquatica, often 
with the axillary branches developed. The stems are more broadly 
winged. The petioles are much more broadly winged, and appear 
never to produce small lateral lobes, as is sometimes the case 
in S. aquatica. The leaves are much broader near the base, and 
often all, except those on the young radical shoots, acute. The 
bracts are all leaflike. The cymes are much more lax, with long 
Blender divaricate pedicels. The capsules are blunt and apiculate, 
not gradually acuminate. The corolla is about J to ^ inch long, 
with a greater portion of the tube green than in S. aquatica, and 
the upper lip does not project nearly so far beyond the lower. 
