SCROrilULAHIACE/E. 1 7- r > 
Var. a in cornfields ; rather common, especially in the South. 
Var. 3 by roadsides, in pastures, open woods, &c. ; very common, 
and generally distributed. Var. 7, Bepton Common, Sussex (Miss 
Tlowden) ; and Cambridgeshire, — Collector unknown (J. Ball, I.e.). 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stem erect, wiry, hairy with recurved hairs, 3 inches to 2 feet 
high, generally with numerous opposite branches, except in 
small specimens. Leaves J to 1| ineh long, remotely serrated or 
crenate-serrate, with shallow teeth, scabrous above, with short 
stiff hairs rising from the protuberances, reticulated beneath, with 
the hairs most numerous and strongest on the midrib. Racemes 
very dense in flower, elongating in fruit; lowest bracts usually 
opposite and like the leaves, the others alternate and narrower. 
Calyx tubular, reddish, hairy. Corolla \ inch long, dull-pink, 
twice as long as the calyx; tube glabrous, the limb pubescent; 
upper lip longest, densely bearded towards the apex, concave, 
entire, slightly notched; lower lip shorter than the upper, with 
3 entire oblong lobes, the middle one the longest. Anther-cells 
sub-exserted, with very short awns, equal in all the cells. 
Capsule about \ inch long, slightly compressed, with an impressed 
line at the junction of the carpels. Seeds minute, pale, with acute 
raised longitudinal ridges and close transverse lines between them. 
Plant dull-green, pubescent with short rigid hairs. 
Var. 3 seems to have little claim to be considered a distinct 
species, as most continental botanists regard it. Boreau gives the 
time of flowering of O. verna, May to July, and of O. serotina, 
August to October ; the British var. verna commences flowering in 
the end of June, and var. serotina in July. 
Mr. J. Ball's var. elegans, which has occurred at Wyndcliff, 
Chepstow, appears from his description to belong to var. serotina. 
With var. 7 I am quite unacquainted. Professor Babington 
has not met with it in Cambridgeshire, whence Mr. Ball obtained 
the specimen on which he founded his O. rotundata. 
Heel Bartsia. 
French, Bartsie Rouge. German, JiothbliUiger Augentrost. 
Sub-Gentjs II.— EUPHEAGIA. Gricsb. 
Capsule oblong, scarcely compressed, pointed. Seeds very 
minute, crenately ribbed. Ililuni basal. 
