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lower ones usually with a few large slender spreading ciliated 
teeth. Flowers horizontal, secund, in a very lax spikelike raceme. 
Calyx glabrous or puberulent ; teeth strapshapcd, lanceolate, and 
ciliated, nearly equal, all bent upwards. Tube of the corolla nearly 
straight, more than twice as long as the calyx-teeth, and more than 
four times as long as the lips. Capsule with an ovate profile, m re 
curved on the upper side than on the under. 
Var. a, lal (folium. 
Plate MIL 
Leaves ovate, all acute. Bracts strongly toothed, all except 
the lowest ones with short points. 
Var. 3, vulgaris. 
Plate Mill. 
Leaves strapshaped, lanceolate, all acute. Bracts strongly 
toothed, most of them with long entire points. 
Var. 7, montanum. 
Plate MIV. 
M. montanum, Johnst. Fl. Berwick-on-Tweed. 
Leaves strapshaped, lanceolate, acute, the lower ones generally 
oblanceolate and obtuse. Bracts entire or nearly so, all with long 
slender points. 
Var. a, rare. Principally in bushy places, on chalk or lime- 
stone. On the ridge of the hill between Goring and Whitechurch, 
Oxfordshire (Prof. Babington) ; banks of the Wye below Mon- 
mouth (Mr. Wardale) ; Isle of "Wight (Dr. Bromfield). Var. 3, 
in open woods and copses. Common, and generally distributed, 
but becoming rare in the North of Scotland. Var. 7, on heaths 
and pastures. Common in mountainous districts, abundant in 
Scotland, and reaching North to Orkney. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Var. a and 3, Summer. 
Var. 7, late Summer and Autumn. 
A variable plant, Stems erect, wiry, flexuous, 1 to 2 feet high in 
vars. a and 3, 2 to 12 inches in var. 7. Branches numerous, 
spreading ; lowest bracts usually exactly similar to the leaves, 
and distant. Flowers \ to f inch long, pale-yellow ; the tube often 
nearly white, especially in var. 7 ; the palate orange, and raised so 
as to close the mouth of the corolla. Capsule longer than the calyx- 
teeth, I inch long, compressed, at length rcflexed, generally with 
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