. Flowers of the field. Botany. 2l6 COROLLIFLOR/E axillary, not spiked yellow floivers, and by being covered with clammy down. Marshes and wet places in the south and south- west.—Fl. June to September. Annual. 2. B. odontites (Red Bartsia).— A muc-h-branched herbaceous plant 6-12 inches high, with narrow, tapering, serrated leaves of a dingy purplish-green, and numerous one-sided spikes of small pink flowers. While flowering the spikes usually drop towards the ends. Cornfields ; abundant.—Fl. July to September. Annual. 3. 73. Alpina (Alpine Bartsia).—An erect plant, approaching B. viscosa in
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 2l6 COROLLIFLOR/E axillary, not spiked yellow floivers, and by being covered with clammy down. Marshes and wet places in the south and south- west.—Fl. June to September. Annual. 2. B. odontites (Red Bartsia).— A muc-h-branched herbaceous plant 6-12 inches high, with narrow, tapering, serrated leaves of a dingy purplish-green, and numerous one-sided spikes of small pink flowers. While flowering the spikes usually drop towards the ends. Cornfields ; abundant.—Fl. July to September. Annual. 3. 73. Alpina (Alpine Bartsia).—An erect plant, approaching B. viscosa in habit, 6-8 inches high. Leaves all opposite, ovate, crenate ; flowers dull purple in a leafy spike. High mountains in Scotland and the north of England ; rare.—Fl. July, August. Euphrasia Officinalis (Common Eye-bright) 10. Euphrasia [Eye-hright) I. E. officinalis (Common Eye-bright). — The only British species. An elegant little plant 2-6 inches high, with deeply cut leaves and loose, leafy spikes of numer- ous white or purplish flowers, variegated with yellow. On the mountains and near the sea the stem is scarcely branched, and the leaves are fleshy ; but in rich soil it assumes the habit of a minute shrub. The roots are said to be parasitic on grasses. An infusion of this plant makes a useful eye- water.—Fl. July, August. Annual. II. SiBTHORPiA {Cornish Money-wort) I. 5. Europi^a (Cornish Money-wort). An elegant little plant, with slender, thread-like stems, which creep along the ground in tangled masses ; and small, delicate green, downy, orbicu- lar, notched leaves on slender stems. The flowers very small, pink and yellow, on axillary stalks. It is found clothing the banks of springs and rivulets in most parts of Corn- wall, and occasionally met with in some of the other southern counties. —Fl. June to September. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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