FIGWORT FAMILY 801 



apex; lower lip 10-12 mm. long; lobes rounded. In swamps: Ont. — Conn. — Va. 

 — Neb.— Sask. Plain. Jl-O. 



19. P. centranthera A. Gray. Stem short, glabrous, with the spike 1.5 

 dm. or less; leaves 5-15 cm. long, glabrous; divisions oval or ovate, doubly den- 

 tate, about 1 cm. long, with callous mucronate teeth; bracts linear or nearly so, 

 cihate and often toothed towards the apex; calyx about 2 cm. long, its lobes 

 linear to linear-lanceolate; corolla 3-3.5 cm. long, purple or yellowish; galea 

 slightly curved, about 1 cm. long; lip about 8 mm. long with short rounded cren- 

 ate lobes. Mountains: N.M, — Colo. — Utah — Calif. Submont. Ap-Je. 



20. P. crenulata Benth. Stem more or less villous-puberulent, 2-A dm. 

 high; leaves linear, obtuse, 3-7 cm. long, doubly crenate; spike 3-10 cm. long; 

 bracts similar to the leaves; calyx cleft in front, 2-3-Iobed; lobes ovate-lanceolate; 

 corolla 2-2.5 cm. long, purplish or white; galea about 1 cm. long, curved, not 

 beaked, but with two small triangular teeth; lip 7-8 mm. long, rather deeply 

 3-lobed; lobes rounded. Mountains: Wyo. — Colo. — Nev. SubmonL — Mo7it. 

 Je-Au. 



26. RHINANTHTJS L. Rattle-box, Yellow Rattle. 



Annual, erect, caulescent herbs, blackening in drying. Leaves opposite, 

 toothed or lobed. Flowers perfect, in terminal, leafy, one-sided spikes or soli- 

 tary in the upper leaf-axils. Calyx compressed, 4-toothed, much inflated in 

 age and reticulate. Corolla irregular, 2-lipped; upper lip compressed, arched, 

 minutely 2-toothed below the apex; lower lip shorter, with 3 spreading lobes. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under the upper lip; anthers pilose; sacs 

 transverse. Capsule orbicular, flat, loculicidal. Seeds several, orbicular, mnged. 



Corolla-tube exserted; teeth of the upper coroUa-lip triangular, 1 mm. long. 



1. R. KyroUae. 



Corolla-tube included; teeth of the upper lip rounded. 2. R. ri^idus, 



i. R. Ksrrollae Chab. Stem 3-7 dm. high, usually without black lines, 

 glabrous, or pilose at the nodes and in decurrent lines, of ten branched at flowering 

 time, yellowish; leaves elongate, lanceolate, oblong, or linear, dentate, with 

 acute teeth, scabrous; calyx short-hairy, ciliate on the margins; corolla 8-9 mm. 

 long; tube yellow. R, Crista-Galli Rydb.(Fl. Colo.) Thickets and meadows: 

 N.S.— Md.— Colo. — Wash. — Alta. SubmonL Jl-Au. 



2, R. rigidus Chab. Stem 2-6 dm. high, rigid, pilose in decurrent lines, at 

 first simple, later branched, wdth strongly ascending branches; leaves glabrous or 

 scabrous above and puberulent beneath, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, dentate 

 and bispidulous-cihate on the margins; calyx glabrous or puberulent; corolla 7-8 

 mm. long. Meadows: Alta. — Colo.— Wash. — Alaska. Submont. — Mont. Je-Au. 



27. MELAMPYRUM (Tourn.) L. CowMVheat. 



Annual herbs, often blackening in drying. Leaves opposite, entire or few- 

 toothed. Flowers perfect, sohtary in the upper leaf-axils, or in leafy-bracted 

 spikes * Calyx 4-toothed, the upper 2 teeth somewhat longer. Corolla irregu- 

 lar 2-"lipped; tube gradually enlarged upw^ards; upper lip compressed, obtuse or 

 retuse- lower lip 3-lobed, 2-grooved beneath. Stamens 4, didraamous, ascend- 

 ing under the upper lip. Anther-sacs parallel. Capsule flat, oblique, loculicidal. 

 Seeds 2-4, smooth, strophiolate. 



1 M lineare Lam. Stem 1-5 dm. high, 4-angled, with puberulent Hnes; 

 leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, short-petioled, 2-7 cm. long 

 entire; bracts broader, often ovate-hastate, or ^-ith sahent bristle-pomted 

 teeth; calyx-teeth subulate; coroUa 8-12 nim^ long, white or whitish, turning 

 purplish. Dry woods: N.S.-N.C.-Ida.-B.C. Alont. My-Au. 



Family 118. LENTIBULARIACEAE. Bl^^derwort Family. 



Small scapose or caulescent herbs, gromug in water or wet places. Leaves 

 when submerged dissected into linear or filiform segments, often bladder- 

 bearing or when aerial basal and entire, or rarely wantmg. Scapes naked 



