Bot. [named by Linnæus after Bartsch of Königsberg.] A genus of Scrophulariaceæ. B. Odontites is a wayside weed in Britain, with dull purple flowers and purplish stem.
1753. in Chambers, Cycl. Supp.
1861. S. Thomson, Wild Flowers, III. (ed. 4), 246. The dull-looking bartsia, with its … conspicuous bracteas.
1863. Baring-Gould, Iceland, 190. The rich purple flowers of Alpine bartsia.
