Genus 35. 



FIGWORT FAMILY. 



ing, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under the upper lip of the corolla ; anther- 

 sacs similar, parallel. Capsule globose, oblong, or ovoid, loculicidally dehiscent, several- 

 many-seeded. Seeds horizontal, striate, or ribbed. [Named for John Bartsch, a Prussian 

 botanist, died 1738.] 



About 6 species of the northern hemisphere. Only the following is known to occur in North 

 America. Type species : Bartsia viscosa L. 



i. Bartsia alpina L. Alpine- Bartsia. 

 Fig. 3844. 



Bartsia alpina L. Sp. PI. 602. 1753. 



Perennial by short rootstocks, pubescent; stem erect, 

 leafy, simple, or rarely with 1 or 2 short branches, 4'-io' 

 high. Leaves sessile, ovate, or ovate-oblong, crenate- 

 dentate, obtuse or acutish, rounded and sometimes 

 slightly clasping at the base, i'-l' long; bracts similar, 

 smaller, mostly shorter than the flowers; spike i'-2' 

 long; flowers 8"-io" long, sometimes borne also in the 

 upper axils ; calyx 4-cleft nearly to the middle ; corolla 

 purple, its tube much longer than the calyx ; anthers 

 pubescent, at least on the back ; capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 equalling or longer than the calyx. 



Labrador to Greenland and the Arctic Sea. 

 Europe. Summer. 



Also in 



36. ODONTITES Gmel. Fl. Sib. 3: 213. 1768. 



Annual erect herbs, half parasitic on the roots of other plants, with small opposite leaves, 

 and yellow or red flowers in terminal bracted spikes or racemes. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla 

 with a narrow tube and a strongly 2-lipped limb, the upper lip concave, entire, or 2-lobed, the 

 lower 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending ; anther-sacs similar. Capsule 

 mostly subglobose, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds few, pendulous. [Greek, referring to its 

 supposed value as a cure for toothache.] 



About 20 species, mostly natives of the Mediterranean region, the following typical. 



i. Odontites Odontites (L.) Wettst. Red 

 Bartsia. Red Eyebright. Fig. 3845. 



Euphrasia Odontites L. Sp. PI. 604. 1753. 

 Bartsia Odontites Huds. Fl. Angl. Ed. 226S. 1778. 

 Odontites Odontites Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 

 Fam. 4 : Abt. 3b, 102. 1S91. 



Annual, appressed-pubescent, roughish ; stem slen- 

 der.at length much branched, 6-15' high, the branches 

 erect or ascending. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, or 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 serrate with low distant teeth, slightly narrowed at 

 the base, J ' I * ' long, l"-3" wide; spikes slender, 

 becoming 2'-$' long in fruit, somewhat 1-sided ; 

 bracts similar to the leaves, but smaller ; flowers nu- 

 merous, 4"-S" long; calyx 4-cleft; corolla red or 

 pink, its tube somewhat longer than the calyx ; an- 

 thers slightly pubescent; capsule oblong, shorter 

 than the calyx. 



In fields and waste places, coast of Maine to Nova 

 Scotia. Naturalized from Europe. Native also of Asia. 

 June-Sept. 



37. PEDICULARIS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 607. 1753. 



Herbs, with alternate opposite or rarely verticillate, pinnately lobed cleft or pinnatifid 

 leaves, and yellow red purple or white flowers, in terminal spikes or spike-like racemes. 

 Calyx tubular, cleft on the lower side or sometimes also on the upper, or 2-5-toothed. Corolla 

 strongly 2-lipped, the tube cylindric, the upper lip (galea) laterally compressed, concave or 



