17-1 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I.— BART SI A ODONTITES. Huds. 
Plate DfCCCXCIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXXVIL 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. G2. 
Odontites rubra, Pers. Benth. in D. C. Prod. Vol. X. p. 551. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. 
p. 19. 
Euphrasia Odontites, Linn. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 217. 
Annual. Stem 4-angled, erect, paniculately branched, with 
the branches opposite, erect or ascending. Leaves sessile, lan- 
ceolate, acute, remotely serrate. Mowers in dense spikclike 
racemes at the extremity of the stem and branches, subsecund. 
Peduncles much shorter than the tube of the calyx. Corolla 
ringent, hairy. Style longer than the upper lip. Capsule oblan- 
ccolate-oblong-ovoid, obtuse, apiculate, hairy, equalling or slightly 
exceeding the calyx. Seeds minute, fusiform-oblong, ribbed, trans- 
verse, striate between the ribs. 
Var. a, vulgaris. 
Odontites verna, Reich. Fl. Excurs. p. 359. 
O. rubra, Or. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. GOG. 
Euphrasia Odontites, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. p. GO. 
Branches ascending, nearly straight. Leaves rounded at the 
base. Bracts usually exceeding the flowers. Calyx green tinged 
with purple ; teeth as long as the tube, triangular-lanceolate. 
Var. 3, serotina. 
Odontites serotina, Reich. Fl. Excurs. p. 359. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. GOG. 
Odontites verna, var. elegans, Ball, in. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. ii. Vol. IV. p. 29. 
Euphrasia serotina, Lam. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. G9, 
Branches spreading, then curving upwards, flexuous. Leaves 
attenuated towards the base. Bracts shorter than the flowers. 
Calyx-teeth as long as the tube, triangular-lanceolate. 
Var. 7, rolundata. 
Odontites rotundata, Ball in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. ii. Vol. IV. p. 30. 
" Moral leaves [bracts] equalling or shorter than the flowers. 
Segments of the calyx one-third of its length, broadly-triangular. 
Corolla rather shorter than in O. verna ; upper lip broad, convex, 
including the anthers ; lower lip with three broadly-rounded nearly 
equal segments. . . . Capsule broadly-oval, when ripe longer than 
the calyx."— (Ball, I. c.) 
