Si Ri IPHULARIACEAE. 



Vol. III. 



2. Otophylla densiflora ( Renth. ) Small. 

 Cut-leaved Gerardia. Fig. 3832. 



G. densiflora Benth. Comp. Bot. Mag. i: 206. 1S35. 

 Otophylla densiflora Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 1075. '93- 



Annual, scabrous and short-hispid; stems stiff, 

 erect, branched, or simple, I-2i high, very leafy. 

 Leaves sessile, ovate in outline, ascending, about 

 1' long, pinnately parted nearly to the midvein 

 into 3-7 narrowly linear acute rigid segments less 

 than 1" wide; flowers l'-li' long, rose purple, 

 sessile in the upper axils; calyx 5-cleft. its lobes 

 linear, acuminate, ciliate, about as long as the 

 tube ; corolla glabrous both outside and within ; 

 filaments glabrous or villous; capsule about i' 

 high, shorter than the calyx. 



On dry prairies, Kansas to Texas. Aug.-Oct. 



31. CASTILLEJA Mutis; L. f. Suppl. 

 47. 1781. 



Herbs, parasitic on the roots of other plants, with alternate leaves, and red yellow purple 

 or white flowers, in dense leafy-bracted spikes, the bracts often brightly colored and larger 

 than the flowers. Calyx tubular, laterally compressed, cleft at the summit on the upper side, 

 or also on the lower, the lobes entire or 2-toothed. Corolla very irregular, its tube not longer 

 than the calyx, its limb 2-lipped ; upper lip (galea) arched, elongated, concave or keeled, 

 laterally compressed, entire, enclosing the 4 didynamous stamens; lower lip short, 3-lobed. 

 Anther-sacs oblong or linear, unequal, the outer one attached to the filament by its middle. 

 the inner one pendulous from its apex. Style filiform; stigma entire or 2-lobed. Capsule 

 ovoid or oblong, loculicidally dehiscent, many-seeded. Seeds reticulated. [Named for Cas- 

 tillejo, a Spanish botanist.] 



About 50 species, mostly natives of the New World. In addition to the following, about 30 

 others occur in the western parts of North America. Type species : Castilleja fissifdlia L. f. 



* Plants villous-pubescent. 

 Bracts broad, dilated, lobed. or entire. 



Stem leaves deeply and irregularly cleft into narrow segments. 1. C. coccinea. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, or rarely with a few lobes. 2. C. indivisa. 



Bracts linear or linear-lanceolate, entire. 3. C. minor. 



** Plants glabrous, woolly at the summit, or cinereous-puberulent. 



Glabrous, or tomentose at the summit; leaves lanceolate, mostly entire. 4. C. acuminata. 



Cinereous-puberulent, pale ; stem leaves cleft. 5. C. scssilifiora. 



1. Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng. Scarlet 



Painted-cup. Indian Paint-brush or 



Pink. Prairie-fire. Fig. 3833. 



Bartsia coccinea L. Sp. PI. 602. 1753. 

 Castilleja coccinea Spreng. Syst. 2: 775. 1825. 



Annual or biennial, villous-pubescent: stem 

 rather slender, simple, or with few erect branches, 

 i-2 high. Leaves sessile, parallel-veined, the 

 basal oblong, obovate, or linear, tufted, mostly 

 entire, l'-3' long, those of the stem deeply 3-5- 

 cleft into linear obtusish segments, the bracts 

 broader and shorter. 3-5-lobed or cleft, bright 

 red or scarlet, conspicuous ; flowers sessile, 10"- 

 12" long, usually not exceeding the bracts ; calyx 

 cleft both above and below into 2 dilated entire 

 or retuse oblong and obtuse lobes, sometimes 

 scarlet; corolla greenish-yellow, its tube shorter 

 than the calyx, its upper lip much longer than 

 the lower ; capsule oblong, acute, 5 "-6" long. 



In meadows and moist thickets, Maine and Ontario 

 to Manitoba, North Carolina, Tennessee. Kansas and 

 Texas. Ascends to 4000 ft. in Virginia. Bracts and 

 calyx rarely yellow. Red indians. Election-posies. 

 Wickawee. Bloody-warrior. Nose-bleed. May-July. 



