Rarities from Montana.— III. 



By p. a. Rydberg. 



Pedicularis Montanensis. 



Stem 3-4 m. high, simple, rather slender, more or less tinged 

 with dark purple, glabrous; leaves pinnate, glabrous; segments 

 ^-i inch long, lanceolate, doubly serrate; spike short and dense, 

 3-6 cm., seldom 8 or 9 cm. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, about 

 half as long as the flower, puberulent and villous-ciliolateand more 

 or less purple-tinged as well as the calyx ; calyx-lobes subu- 

 late ; corolla 1.5 cm. long, purplish except a part of the lip which 

 is yellow ; galea much longer than the lip, lower portion straight, 

 the apex cucullate and the tip not rostrate ; lip 3-cleft. lateral lobes 

 rounded and broad, middle one generally truncate and ciliolate at 

 the margin. 



