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RHI NANTHUS Crifta-galli.
Yellow Rattle.
D ID Y NA M IA *Anglofpermia.
Gen. Char. Cal. inflated, 4-toothed. Upper lip of
the Corolla comprefled. Caff, of 1 cells, blunt,
comprefled. Seeds imbricated, flat.
Spec. Char. Upper lip of the corolla arched. Calyx
fmooth. Leaves lanceolate, ferrated.
Syn. Rhinanthus Crifla-galli. Linn. Sp. PI. 840. Hudf.
2,68. With. §4 2 . Hull. 137. Relh. 2 38. Sibth. 192.
Abbot. 134. Curt. Lond.fafc. 5. t. 4 3 . Mart. Fl.
Ruß. t. 148.
Pedicularis, feu Crifta galli lutea. Rail Syn. *284.
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REQUENT in meadows and paftures, flowering in June.
Root fibrous, annual. Stem upright, a foot or more in height,
branched, fmooth, quadrangular, leafy,, often fpotted with red-
Leaves oppofite, feflile, • lanceolate, heart-fhaped at the bafe,
rough, very fharply ferrated. Spike terminal, leafy. Flowers
not always ftri&ly oppofite, on fliort ftalks. Calyx bladdery,
with ftrong ribs and a net-work of veins, of a pale greenifh
yellow, fmooth, permanent; its orifice contracted. Corolla
twice as long as the calyx, yellow; its upper lip arched, comprefled,
tipped with 2 blue fpots; its lower in 3 equal lobes’
Anthers awn-lefs, but very hairy. Capfule dry and membranous.
Seeds with a membranous border.
This plant, though to be found in almoft every hay-flack,
is fuppofed not to be of any peculiar agricultural ufe.
We cannot clearly diftinguifh which of Ehrhart’s 2 fpecies
of Rhinanthus (fee Dr. Hull’s Flora) this may be. Ours has
generally a fpotted ftem, and the calyx is fmooth, if by that
term is meant its being free from hair, glaher-, if free from inequality,
lee vis, it is not fo. The ftyle is in an early ftate
fhorter than the corolla, afterwards often longer.
We know not Dillenius’s plant, the |3 of Hudfon, nor whether
it may be Ehrhart’s R. major or minor.