Class XIV. Order II. 



Stem erect, under a foot in height, downy at top. Leaves 

 dark green, lanceolate, with crenate lobes, obtuse, smooth. 

 Spike terminal, short, crowded, leafy. Calyx cut off in an ob- 

 lique direction downward. Corolla yellowish, the upper lip 

 forming a long helmet, its point square, with a small acute tooth 

 on each side ; lower lip three lobed. Pastures. May? Peren- 

 nial. 



189. GERARDIA. 

 GERARDIA FLAVA. L. l"ellow Gerardia. 



Leaves lanceolate, pinnate- dentate ; stem sim- 

 ple. L. 



One of the most showy of our wild wood flowers. Stem 

 erect, one or two feet in height, pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 the lower ones more or less pinnatifid and cut, the upper ones 

 lanceolate, entire or serrate, obtusely pointed. Spike terminal, 

 few flowered. Flowers opposite, trumpet shaped, large, yel- 

 low. Peduncles short, downy. Stamens somewhat woolly ; 

 anthers with two points at the base. The whole plant turns 

 black in drying. Woods. August. Perennial. 



GERARDIA PEDICULARIA. L t Bushy Gerardia. 



Leaves oblong, twice serrate ; stem panicled, 

 calyxes crenate. L. 



A tall, bushy plant, which would be one of the most orna- 

 mental, were not its flowers very perishable, and deciduous. 

 Stem erect, with numerous opposite branches. Leaves pinnat- 

 ifid, with serrate lobes. Peduncles hairy. The structure of 

 the flowers is very elegant. The calyx ends in five spreading 

 leafets, indented on their margin. Corolla yellow, downy with- 

 out, trumpet shaped, with spreading lobes. The leaves and 

 flowers turn black in drying. Dry woods. Very common at 

 Sweet Auburn, Cambridge. August. Perennial. 



