188 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
juncea or L. Loselii."— (Cybele Brit. Vol. II. p. 221.) Not now to 
be found there. 
MIMULUS GUTTATUS. B.C. 
Said by Dr. Walker- Arnot to be " naturalized in many boggy 
places," I have never seen a British specimen. 
VERONICA PRUTICULOSA. Linn. 
Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 1028. 
Said to have been found in Ben Cruachan by Rev. Dr. Walker 
and on Ben Lomond by Dr. Robert Brown. No doubt a mistake. 
V. saxatilis only occurs on the latter hill. 
ORDER LI— ORORANCHACEJE. 
Fleshy herbs, destitute of green leaves, parasitical on the roots 
of other plants ; the stem white, purple, brown, yellow, red, or 
dull-blue, with distant scales. Flowers irregular, in the axil oi 
bracts similar to the scales upon the stem, arranged in spikelike 
racemes, or rarely solitary and terminal. Calyx free from the 
ovary, persistent, of 4 or 5 sepals, unequally combined in various 
modes, often split along the top completely to the base, and fre- 
quently along the bottom so as apparently to consist of 2 entire 
or cleft sepals. Corolla tubular or tubular-campanulate, generally 
curved, the limb 2-lipped, the upper lip commonly 2-lobed, and 
the lower 3. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the tube of the 
corolla. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 to 4 parietal placentae ; style 
single, curved at the apex ; stigma bilobed, the lobes right and left. 
Ovules numerous. Fruit a 1-celled capsule, opening by 2 valves, 
each valve bearing upon its face a single placenta or a pair. Seeds 
generally very numerous, with a minute embryo enclosed in 
transparent white albumen. 
GENUS L— L A T H R M A. Linn, 
Flowers all perfect. Calyx inflated-campanulate, l-toothed. 
Corolla irregular, marcescent; tube bellshaped cylindrical 
slightly arched; limb bilabiate and ringent; the upper lip concave, 
entire ; the lower one smaller, erect, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 
