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1. Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng. 



Bartsia coccinea L., Sp. PI. 602. 1753. "Habitat in Virginia, Nove- 

 boraco . . . Hort. Cliff. 235." From L., Hort. Cliff. 325. 1737, 

 "Crescit in Virginia, unde delatam communicavit DD. Gronovius". 

 From Gron., Fl. Virg. 69. 1743: "Clayton n. 293." Certainly the plant 

 here considered. 



Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 2: 775. 1825. 



Meadows or moist grassy slopes, loam or sandy loam, in the 

 upland from North Carolina to Alabama." Ranges from Maine 

 to Manitoba, south to Georgia and Kansas. 



Flowering from April to early June, and soon ripening fruit. 

 Corolla yellowish-green throughout. 



37. PEDICULARIS Linne. 

 Pedicularis L., Sp. PI. 607. 1753. 

 Type species, P. palustris L., of Europe. 



Stem 6-8 dm. tall, glabrous. Leaves shallowly lobed, the sinuses 

 narrow, the lobes with minute regular crenations. Bracts 

 auriculate near base. Rachis of inflorescence glabrous. Fused 

 sepals of each side terminating in a slightly enlarged crenate 

 foliar tip, glabrous or with a very few long hairs near base. 

 Corolla with truncate apex of posterior lobes without tooth-like 

 processes. Capsule brown, scarcely exceeding the calyx, slen- 

 derly beaked. Flowering in late summer 1. P. lanceolata. 



Stem 1-3 dm. tall, hirsute, especially above. Leaves deeply lobed, 

 the sinuses broad, the lobes with more prominent irregular 

 crenations. Bracts entire near base. Rachis of inflorescence 

 lanate. Fused sepals of each side broadly acute, entire, pubes- 

 cent along the veins. Corolla with apex of posterior lobes each 

 w^ith a tooth -like process. Capsule straw-colored, twice as 

 long as the calyx, scarcely beaked. Flowering in spring. 



2. P. canadensis. 



1. Pedicularis lanceolata Michx. 



Pedicularis lanceolata Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 18. 1803. "Hab. in 

 regione Illinoensi" (A. Michaux). Type not verified, but description 

 distinctive. 



Swales and wet meadows, mountains of North Carolina. Ranges 

 from Massachusetts to Manitoba, south to North Carolina and 

 Nebraska. 



Flowering from late July to September. Corolla yellow through- 

 out. 



" Seen only south to Berkeley Co., lower South Carolina, but this very easily 

 distinguished plant is recorded from upper Georgia by Elliott, Sketch Bot. S. C. 

 and Ga. 2: 132. 1822; and from Etowah Co., Alabama, by Mohr, Contrib. Nat. 

 Herb. 6: 728. 1901. 



