Euphrasia
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Euphrasia (Greek for hilarity or delight). Scrophulariaceae. Eyebright. More than 100 low herbs, of no special horticultural value although some of them are mentioned in connection with alpine-gardening. They are more or less parasitic on roots of other plants: Lvs. opposite, dentate or incised: fls. small, largely whitish or purplish, in terminal leafy spikes; calyx mostly 4-cleft; corolla 2-lipped; stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under the upper lip: caps, oblong, many- seeded, dehiscent. The species range in temperate and cold parts of the globe, several of them being N. American. CH
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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