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164 NOTES ON A NEW SUBSPECIES OF EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS.
" When, as I have already remarked is sometimes the case, E.
capituJata is eglaudular, it may at first siglit be taken for broadleaved
purple- flowered E. minima, but the long jointed and not adpressed
hairs on the stem, and the horizontal direction of the
flowers of E. capitulata will distinguish it. The presence of glandular
hairs is not constant, apparently, in any subspecies of Euphrasia.
Though glandular hairs are characteristic of E. Rostko-
vinna, Hayne, E. hirtella Jord., and E. capitulata mihi, yet eglandular
forms of these three subspecies do occur. There are, however,
other peculiarities in the pubescence which appear more constant
; such are the long jointed hairs found in all the three lastnamed
plants, though even these are sometimes absent as in the
high alpine forms of capitidata and of Uostkoviana, the latter being
named by Gremli, Euphrasia anadena (= E^iphrasia Rostkoviana /3.
alpestris Gremli, olim) in his ' Neue Beitrage zur Flora der Schweiz,'
Heft 4, Aarau, 1887.
" Sept. 10. To-day I walked from the Grosse Scheideck to the
Faulhorn. The road, at first, is nearly level for a considerable
distance, but afterwards ascends within sight of the Hotel of the
Grosse Scheideck, and about three quarters of an hour's walk from
the latter. On the wet alpine pastures, soon after commencing to
ascend, I found E. capitulata, small forms of it, about 1^ inches
high ; further on the plant occurred abundantly, and I noticed it all
the way onwards till within half an hour's walk of the Faulhorn
Hotel. I was thus able to gather abundant specimens of this
interesting plant. It has, here, the dark-green foliage which I
noticed as so characteristic when I first found it at Miirren. E.
minima Schleioh., occurs here abundantly also, and in company
with E. capitulata. On the slopes, where the road passes close to a
fence, about one hour's walk from the Scheideck, and on the south
side of the fence, I found large plants of E. hirtella Jord., with its
characteristic pale green foliage and pale flowers. E. capitulata
evidently prefers the wetter spots and E. hirtella the drier ground.
The bracts of E, hirtella are broader than those of E. capitidata
and more or less cordate at the base ; the tips of the leaves and
bracts have not the same tendency to curve downwards as in E.
capitulata. The upper bracts of the latter have a more or less
cuneate base."
I have drawn up the following description of E. capitulata :
Euphrasia capitulata mihi, nova subspecies = E. minima var.
intermedia Towns. (Journ. of Bot. 1881, p. 167).
Racemo ^ji7?s lunyis patentihus articulatis glandulosis eglandulo-
sisque, e basi nigra ortis, obsito ; caule crasso humili unciali ad tres
uncias, simplice vel raro infra ramoso, pilis crispidis non adpressis
pilisque longis glandulosis eglandulosisque promiscue pubescente ;
foliis et bracteis ovatis vel late ovatis patentihus atro-virentibus, pagina
inferiure plicato-costatd, dentatis, dentibus ab utroque latere quatuor
ad sex obtusis, bracteis superiuribns imbricatis, basi cuneata, dentibus
acutis ; calyce glanduloso nervis virentibus sed pagina inter
nervos snspe purpureo-maculosa ; corolla j^^rva, fauce flava, tubo
incluso, labio superiorc lilacino inferiore magis pallido vel albo-