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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. V, palustris. Marsh Louse*wort. Tall Red Rattle. 



Stem solitar}', branched. Calyx ovate, hairy, ribbed, in 

 two unequally notched lobes. 



P. pnlustris. Linn. Sp. PI. 845. fVilld. v. 3. 202. FL Br. 655. 



Engl. Bot. V. e. t. 399. Hook. Scot. 187. Bull. Fr. 1. 129. 

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

 P. palustr'iK rubra elatior. Rail Sijn. *284. 

 Pedicularis. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 92./. 1, 

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



In marshes and bogfgy meadows. 



Perennial r June, July. 



Root small, by some said to be annual. Stern solitary, erect, 12 

 or 15 inches high, leafy, angular, a little downy, with many la- 

 teral, spreading, opposite branches. Leaves partly opposite, 

 partly scattered, stalked, smooth, bright green, doubly pinna- 

 tifid ; the segments obtuse, bluntly notched, various in breadth. 

 Fl. axillary, op])Osite, solitary, nearly sessile, of an elegant crim- 

 son, darker in the upper li]), without scent ; lower lip minutely 



- fringed. Cal. with 2 principal lobes, variously notched. 



2. P. syhatica. Pasture Lonse-vvort. Dwarf Red 



Rattle. 

 Stems several, spreading, simple. Calyx oblong, angular, 

 smooth, in five unequal notched segments. 



P. sylvatica. Linn. Sp. PI. S45. mild. v. 3. 203. Fl. Br. 656. 

 Eriirl. Bot. V. 6. t. 400. Hook. Scot. 188. Fl. Dan. t. 225. 



P. n.321. Hall. Hist.v. 1. 139. 



P. pratensis rubra vulgaris. Raii Si/n. *284. 



P. pratensis purpurea. Bauh. Pin. 163. 



P. minor. Riv. Monop. Jrr. t. 92. f. 2. 



Pedicularis. Gcr. Em. 1 07 1 ./. Lob. Ic 748./. 



Fistularia. Doth Pempt. 556. f. 



Common Red Rattle. Petiv. H. Brit. /. 36./ 4. 



In moist, heathy, rather mountainous, pastures, frequent. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Of a more humble stature than the preceding, with several, spread- 

 ing or recumbent, unbranched .s7em.s, from a large, fleshy, ta- 

 pering, subdivided root, which Mr. Purton marks annual, as 

 Ray does that of both our species. The present has no appear- 

 ance of being so Ij'oi'ps alternate, doubly pinnatifid and notch- 



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