176 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES II —B AETSIA VISCOSA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXCIV 
Belch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXXVI. 
Billot, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1739. 
Euphragia viscosa, Benth. in D. C. Prod. Vol. X. p. 543. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. 
p. 246. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 611. Reich. JU. 1. c. p. 54. 
Trixago viscosa, Reich. Fl. Excurs. p. 360. 
Annual. Stem round, erect, simple, rarely slightly branched 
in the lower half. Leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate or oval- 
lanceolate, acute, remotely and coarsely serrate throughout. 
Flowers in a rather lax spike or spike-like raceme, not secund. 
Pedicels much shorter than the tube of the calyx. Corolla ringent, 
hairy with gland-tipped hairs. Style scarcely exceeding the upper 
lip of the corolla. Capsule elliptical-ovoid, subacute, apiculate, 
hairy, a little shorter than the calyx. Seeds very minute, very 
finely reticulated. Plant pubescent, with the hairs on the stem, 
calyx, and corolla gland-tipped. 
In moist meadows and in marshes. Not uncommon in the 
South and West of England, extending from Sussex, Hants, 
Dorset, and Cornwall, North to Dumbarton, llenfrew, and 
Argylc ; also in the South-west of Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem wiry, 3 to 18 inches high, sometimes with a few branches 
towards the base, but more generally simple. Leaves \ to 1^ inch 
long, scabrous above with raised points, from which hairs are 
produced, reticulated below as in B. Odontites, but more coarsely 
serrated and broader than in that species. Calyx-tube yellowish- 
white towards the base ; teeth green. Flowers J inch long, pale- 
yellow. Capsule £ to -^ inch long, slightly exceeding the calyx- 
tube, but shorter than the segments. Plant yellowish-green, the 
stem, under side of the leaves, pedicels, and calyx-tube clothed with 
short gland-tipped hairs, the upper side and margins of the leaves 
with short still' hairs without glands at the tip. 
Yellow Bartsia. 
French, Bartsie Yisqueuse. German, Gelbblaltriger Augentrost. 
Sub-Genus III.— EU-BABTSIA. (Bartsia, Stec.) 
Capsule ovate-oblong, not compressed, pointed. Seeds large, 
with the ribs on the back winged. Ililum lateral. 
