182 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Var. a, alatus. 
Seeds with a broad membranous border. 
Var. 3, apterus. Pries. 
"K. Reichenbachii, Drejer" II. Excurs. Hafniens. p. 210, Reich. 
" Seeds not winged, but rounded and longitudinally ribbed or 
furrowed on the back." — (Bab.) 
In cultivated ground. Rare. Near Hastings, Sussex; Glou- 
cester, Stafford, Notts, York, Durham, Northumberland; Lake 
district, Berwick, Forfar, Moray; also reported from Shetland, 
but this requires confirmation. Var. j3 "Forfarshire" (Bab.). 
England, Scotland. Annual. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Extremely like R. minor, but usually a taller and much more 
branched plant, of a paler green colour, especially on the bracts ; the 
flowers larger ; the lobes of the upper lip more prominent. 
The variety without winged seeds I have not seen ; the only 
place in Forfarshire where I have collected R. major is between 
Carnoustie and Easthaven, where it is plentiful ; but in all the 
numerous specimens I examined in that locality, the border of the 
seeds was conspicuous. I am also unable to see any difference in 
the breadth of the seed-border in the specimens from Hastings and 
those from Yorkshire, though Professor Babington follows Fries in 
making two varieties of winged-seeded forms : — 
1st. Platypterus. Seed not twice as broad as its wing. 
2nd. Stcnopterus. Seed twice as broad as its wing ; and in the 
"Manual," Hastings is given as the station for the first, and 
North of England and Scotland for the second. 
Larger Yellow-Battle. 
French, Rhinanthe ct Grandes Fleurs. German, Grossere Klapper. 
This plant is more commonly kuown as Crista Galli, from its supposed likeness to 
a cock's comb or crest. 
GENUS XIV.— M ELAMPYRUM. Tournef. 
Calyx tubular - bellshaped, sub-bilabiate, 4-toothed, the lower 
teeth usually the largest. Corolla tubular, bilabiate, with the 
luhe elongated and enlarged upwards; the upper lip helmet- 
shaped, compressed, entire or 2-toothed at the apex, with the 
margins narrowly reflexed ; lower lip a little longer, sub-erect, 
shortly 3-lobcd ; palate with 2 elevated bosses. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, placed under the upper lip of the corolla; anthers 
