DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Pedicularis. 129 



308. PEDICULARIS. Louse-wort, or Red 

 Rattle. 



Linn. Gen. 307. Juss. 101. FL Br. 655. Tourn. t. 77. f. A, D, 

 E, H — L. Lam. t. 517. Gcertn. t. 53. 



Nat. Ord. see. 7i. 303—306. 



Cal. with a roundish-ovate, tumid, but somewhat compressed, 

 tube ; the border in 5, sometimes only 2, unequal, leafy, 

 more or less defined, jagged segments. Cor. ringent; tube 

 oblong, unequal ; upper lip narrowest, erect, vaulted, 

 compressed, notched; lower dilated, flat, in 3 deep obtuse 

 lobes, the central one narrowest. Ned. a gland under 

 the germen. Filain. thread-shaped, concealed by the 

 upper lip. Anth. incumbent, 2-lobed, acute at the lower 

 part, compressed. Germ, ovate. Style thread-shaped, 

 longer than the stamens. Stigma simple, deflexed. Caps. 

 oblong, or ovate, pointed, oblique, of 2 cells and 2 valves, 

 bursting at the summit, the partitions from the centre of 

 each valve. Seeds few, angular, pointed, attached to a 

 roundish receptacle^ at the base between the partitions. 



A numerous and handsome, chiefly alpine, genus, of which 

 we have only two species in Britain. The whole are in 

 general perennial, herbaceous, erect, or ascending, with 

 variously pinnatifid or pinnate, rather bluntly toothed, 

 leaves^ and red, purple, or partly yellow, elegant^otce?-6-. 

 They are mostly of an acrid quality', not acceptable to 

 domestic cattle, and turn black in drying. Sheep are 

 said to become scabby after feeding for a short time on 

 P. sylvatica, whence the name seems to have originated. 

 Goats eat the various species, as they do, generally, the 

 most acrid plants. 



1 . P. palustris. Marsh Louse-wort. Tall Red Rattle. 



Stem solitary, branched. Calyx ovate, hairy, ribbed, in 

 two unequally notched lobes. 



P. palustris. Linyi. Sp. PL 845. JViUd. v. 3. 202. Fl. Br. 655. 



Engl. Bot. V. 6. t. 399. Hook. Scot. 187. Bull. Fr. t. 129. 

 P. n. 320. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 139. 

 P. palustris rubra elatior. Rail Sijn. *2S4. 

 Pedicularis. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 92. f. 1. 

 Tall Red Rattle. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 36./. 3. 

 In marshes and boggy meadows. 

 Perennial ? Jtnie, July. 



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