﻿FIGWORT 
  FAMILY 
  221 
  

  

  Vn. 
  CASTILLEJA 
  Mutis. 
  

  

  Herbs 
  parasitic 
  on 
  the 
  roots 
  of 
  other 
  plants. 
  Leaves 
  alter- 
  

   nate 
  ; 
  the 
  floral 
  ones 
  usually 
  colored 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  more 
  showy 
  

   than 
  the 
  flowers. 
  Flowers 
  yellow 
  or 
  purplish 
  in 
  terminal 
  leafy 
  

   spikes. 
  Calyx 
  tubular, 
  flattened, 
  2-4-cleft. 
  Corolla 
  tube 
  in- 
  

   cluded 
  within 
  the 
  calyx 
  ; 
  upper 
  lip 
  of 
  the 
  corolla 
  very 
  long, 
  

   linear, 
  arched, 
  and 
  inclosing 
  the 
  stamens, 
  2 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  long 
  

   and 
  2 
  short. 
  Ovary 
  many-ovuled. 
  

  

  1. 
  C. 
  coccinea 
  Sprengel. 
  SCARLET 
  PAINTED 
  CUP, 
  PAINT 
  BRUSH, 
  

   INDIAN 
  PINK, 
  PRAIRIE 
  FIRE, 
  WICKAKEE. 
  A 
  hairy, 
  simple-stemmed 
  

   herb, 
  annual 
  or 
  biennial. 
  Root 
  leaves 
  clustered, 
  obovate 
  or 
  oblong 
  ; 
  

   stem 
  leaves 
  cut 
  ; 
  floral 
  leaves 
  3-5-cleft 
  and 
  bright 
  scarlet 
  (occasion- 
  

   ally 
  yellow) 
  toward 
  the 
  tips, 
  as 
  though 
  dipped 
  in 
  a 
  scarlet 
  dye. 
  Calyx 
  

   nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pale 
  yellow 
  corolla, 
  2-cleft. 
  The 
  spikes 
  are 
  often 
  

   very 
  broad, 
  making 
  this 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  conspicuous 
  of 
  our 
  native 
  

   flowers. 
  Damp, 
  sandy 
  ground, 
  or 
  on 
  bluffs 
  near 
  streams 
  ; 
  sometimes 
  

   in 
  marshes. 
  

  

  2. 
  C. 
  sessiliflora 
  Pursh. 
  DOWNY 
  PAINTED 
  CUP. 
  Perennial 
  ; 
  stem 
  

   leafy, 
  6-15 
  in. 
  high, 
  covered 
  with 
  ash-colored 
  down. 
  Lowest 
  leaves 
  

   linear 
  and 
  entire, 
  upper 
  ones 
  usually 
  deeply 
  cleft 
  into 
  narrow 
  seg- 
  

   ments; 
  floral 
  leaves 
  green, 
  like 
  the 
  upper 
  stem 
  leaves. 
  Calyx 
  lobes 
  

   more 
  deeply 
  cleft 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  linear-lanceo- 
  

   late. 
  Corolla 
  yellowish, 
  nearly 
  2 
  in. 
  long; 
  upper 
  lip 
  about 
  twice 
  the 
  

   length 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  one. 
  On 
  prairies 
  W. 
  and 
  S.W. 
  

  

  VHI. 
  PEDICULARIS 
  L. 
  

  

  Perennial 
  herbs, 
  with 
  the 
  lower 
  leaves 
  pinnately 
  cut 
  and 
  

   the 
  floral 
  ones 
  reduced 
  to 
  bracts. 
  Flowers 
  spiked. 
  Corolla 
  

   markedly 
  2-lipped 
  ; 
  the 
  upper 
  lip 
  much 
  flattened 
  laterally 
  and 
  

   arched, 
  the 
  lower 
  lip 
  spreading, 
  3-lobed. 
  Stamens 
  4, 
  beneath 
  

   the 
  upper 
  lip. 
  Capsule 
  2-celled, 
  tipped 
  with 
  an 
  abrupt 
  point, 
  

   several-seeded. 
  

  

  1. 
  P. 
  canadensis 
  L. 
  COMMON 
  LOUSEWORT. 
  Hairy, 
  with 
  clustered 
  

   simple 
  stems, 
  1 
  ft. 
  high 
  or 
  less. 
  Leaves 
  petioled, 
  the 
  lowermost 
  ones 
  

   pinnately 
  parted, 
  the 
  others 
  somewhat 
  pinnately 
  cut. 
  Spike 
  short, 
  

   closely 
  flowered, 
  and 
  leafy-bracted. 
  Calyx 
  split 
  down 
  the 
  front. 
  

   Corolla 
  greenish-yellow 
  and 
  purplish, 
  with 
  its 
  upper 
  lip 
  hood-like, 
  

   curved 
  under, 
  and 
  with 
  2 
  awl-like 
  teeth 
  near 
  the 
  end. 
  Capsule 
  flat, 
  

   broadly 
  sword-shaped. 
  Knolls 
  and 
  openings 
  among 
  thickets. 
  

  

  