244 ClassX.IV. Order II. 



sile, lanceolate, three or five nerved, nearly smooth. Bractes 

 straw coloured, oblong-ovate, five nerved, with a tooth or two 

 at the end. Flowers straw coloured. Calyx two cleft, the 

 divisions emarginate. Corolla pubescent, its upper lip long and 

 tapering, entire ; lower lip short, three cleft. Style longer than 

 the stamens. On the barren summits of the White mountans. 

 August. Perennial. It also inhabits Siberia. 



Subgenus, CASTILLEJA. Upper lip of the corolla very 

 long; anthers cohering. 



BARTSIA COCCINEA. L. Painted Cup. 



Leaves alternate, linear, cut-pinnatifid with linear 

 segments ; bractes dilated, mostly three cleft, longer 

 than the flowers ; calyx teeth obtuse. 



Syn. EUCHROMA COCCINEA. Nutt. 



Stem reddish, pubescent, angular. Leaves alternate, sessile, 

 pinnatifid with a few long, linear segments. Flowers in a ter- 

 minal spike. The bractes, which constitute the chief beauty of 

 this plant, are three or five cleft, the segments oblong, obtuse, 

 and of a bright scarlet colour at top. Calyx tubular, two cleft, 

 the segments truncate, slightly emarginate, yellowish, tipt with 

 scarlet. Corolla dull yellow, tubular, with two oblong lateral 

 pits at base ; its lower Up very short, curved, with three small 

 ovate lobes ; upper lip straight, somewhat truncate. Stamens 

 as long as the upper lip. Germ ovate, style filiform, projecting, 

 incurved ; stigma capitate. Wet meadows near Fresh pond. 

 June. 



259. OROBANCHE. 

 OROBANCHE UNIFLORA. L. Single flowered Broomrape. 



Scapes in pairs, naked, one flowered. 



Syn. OROBANCHE BIFLORA. Nutt. 



As the part of this plant which appears at sight is one flow- 

 ered, I have preferred retaining the Linnasan name. At the top 

 of the root is a short stem or caudex, sometimes nearly wanting 

 and sometimes several together, clothed with a few obtuse 

 scales, and producing each two scapes. These are simple, erect, 

 hairy, leafless. Calyx hairy, erect, one leafed, parted halfway 



