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Old 19-07-2007, 10:39 PM
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Re: eyebrights

Hi Ian, your photograph shows only part of the plant, so I cannot judge its branching or see the important characters of the stem leaves.

Basically it is Euphrasia nemorosa, as we pretty much expected, but the teeth on the floral leaves are more finely acute than usual. This could be a sign of hybridisation from E. pseudokerneri, but equally it can be part of the natural variation in E. nemorosa. On what I can see I would call it straight E. nemorosa.

Alan Silverside
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