442 EUPHRASIA SALISBURGENSIS FUNK, NATIVE IN IRELAND. ZelandicaB, plurimaB perennes, nonnullse solum annuae, antherse omnes subaequaliter mucronatae. § 1. Perennes. § 2. AnnucB. Sectio II. — Trifid^ Benth. Folia trifida, rarius solum ad basin utrinque dente parvo aucta itaque quinquefida. Antherse glabra? vel glabrescentes. Species extratropicse Americse australis. § 1. Perennes. Subsection I. includes all the European forms, but the repre- sentatives of the genus hitherto recorded as natives of Great Britain and Ireland belong to the first two groups only, viz. Parvijiorm and Grandijiorce, and there was no representative of the third group, AngustifolicB. Through the discovery of E. Salishurgensis we now have in the British Islands representatives of all three groups of Semicalcarata. The original description is found in "Nachricht von einigen seltenen gesammelten Pflanzen," in Hoppe, Taschenbuch (1794), pp. 184 and 190, H. Ch. Funk, of which the following is a trans- lation : —
- Euphrasia Salisburgensis — a new German plant. It has a
great similarity to E. officinalis, but as compared with it differs in several points. The leaves are longer and narrower, the teeth are very acute, and they are also patent. The flower is smaller, and the whole plant is smooth " [Botanische Taschenbuch fur die Anf anger dieser Wissenschaft und Apothekerkunst (1794), Regensburg, p. 190). In Braune, Saltz. Fl. ii. p. 217, t. 1, f. 1 (1797), the plant is described at greater length, headed by a short diagnosis in Latin, viz. " Foliis alternis, lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, fere setace-dentatis." Funk is quoted. The locality given is " Am Ofenlochberge, Kapu- zinerberge, und Viehberge." The plant is described as branched, the branches alternate, erect. Braune asks, '* Is this a var. only?" but he seems to deem it more likely a species, as he found it, he states, growing in sandy ground with E. officinalis, the only other species he gives. The plate shows a small plant 4| in. in height, with six corymbose erect or ascending branches from near the base. The leaves have two teeth on either side. A figure of E. Salisburgensis is also given in Reichenbach's Deutschlands Flora, 109, mdccxx, ii. 3-5. The following is the description as given by Prof. Wettstein in his monograph : — "Euphrasia Salisburgensis Funk. — Caulis erectus, simplex vel in parte inferiore ramosus, 1-30 cm. altus, rubescens, pilis crispulis reversis eglandulosis pubescens, ramis erectis, inferioribus oppo- sitis, superioribus alternantibus. Folia caulina inferiora opposita, cimeiformia, obtusa utrinque dentibus 1-2 obtusis ; folia caulina supe- riora alternantia, lanceolata, in parte media latitudine maxima, longitudine latitudinem 2-5-plo superante, plerumgue acutissima, utrin- que dentibus aristatis patentibus 2-8.. Bractese alternantes latitudine folia caulina superantes, sed eis similes, in triente inferiore latis- simae, utrinque dentibus 2-5 {plerumque 8) elomjatis. Folia omnia
