DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Rhinanthiis. 1^21 



R. minor. Elirh.Herb. 46. Beitr. v. 6.144. 

 Alectorolophus n.313. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 137. 

 Pedicularis seu Crista galli lutea. Raii Si/n. *284. 

 Crista galli. Ger. Em. 1071./. ? Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 92. f. 3. 

 C. galli foemina. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 436./. 



In rather barren meadows and pastures very common. 



Annual. June. 



Root fibrous. Stem about a foot high, with few and generally short 

 branches, leafy, square, often spotted with red or purple, smooth. 

 Leaves lanceolate, spreading, acute, sharply serrated, rough and 

 minutely wrinkled on botli sides, from an inch to an inch and 

 half long ; dilated and heart sliaped at the base. Ft. crowded 

 into a terminal, leafy, or rather bracteated, spike, each pair 

 crossing the next. Bracteas heart-shaped, acute, serrated, 

 green. Cal. bladdery, strongly ribbed, smooth. Cor. yellow j 

 the segments of its upper lip short, blueish. Ncct. an ovate, 

 purple, concave scale, at the base of one edge of the broad 

 flattish geDiicn. Auth. red, awnless, of 2 distinct very hairy 

 lobes, quite concealed by the arched upper li]) of the corolla, as 

 are likewise the stijle and stigma, though the latter sometimes 

 becomes prominent as the flower fades. Caps, dry and mem- 

 branous, making a rattling noise when touched. Seeds brown, 

 smooth, each bordered with a broadish, thin, flat, membranous 

 wing. 



This plant is reckoned unprofitable to the farmer, encumbering 

 rather than enriching his crop of hay, as cattle are not fond of 

 it, and whether they ever eat it by choice is doubtful. 



2. R. major. Large Bushy Yellow Rattle. 



Stem much branched. Leaves iineai'-lanceolate, serrated. 

 Bracteas taper-pointed. Calyx smooth. Style prominent. 

 Seeds slightly bordered. 



R. major. Ehrh. Herb. 56. Beitr. v. 6. 144. 



R. Crista galli |3. Linn. Sp. PL 840. Willd.v. 3. 189. FL Br. 649. 



Alectorolophus n. 313 /3. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 137. 



Pedicularis major angustifolia ramosissima, flore minore luteo, la- 



bello purpureo. Dill, in Raii Si/n. *284. 

 Crista galli angustifolia montana. Bauh. Pin. 163. Prodr. 86. 



In corn-fields in the north of England. 



A mile from Borough-bridge, in the road to Knaresborough, also 



, between Wetherby and Catall, Yorkshire ; and near West New- 

 ton, Northumberland; always among corn. Dr. Richardson. 

 Plentifully on Stockton Common, and in many other parts of 

 the county of Durham, in corn-fields " approaching to peat;" 

 sometimes nearly obliterating crops of corn. Mr. James Back- 

 house. 



Annual. July, 2 or 3 weeks later than the/ormer. 



