Pedicidaris. SCROPHULARIACE/E. 307 



++ -i-r Stem scapiform, or sometimes beariiiG: a pair of leaves, low: leaves doubly pinnatilul: 

 corolla ])rol)ablv piivplc : decurved or porrect narrow beak longer than the breadth of tiie galea: 

 plants nearly glabrous, only a span high. 



P. pedicellata, Bunge. Leaves pinnatoly parted, and the oblong or lanceolate divi- 

 sions iiu'isely pinnatitid ; lobes very small, dentate: spike capitate and with one or two 

 more distant i)edicellate leafy-bractod Howers at base : calyx-lobes toothed or incised : 

 corolla fully half inch long: lower lip much smaller than the galea. — Walp. Kepert. iii. 

 4."32 (name only) & in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 278; Maxim. 1. c. 111. P. luisuta, Bong. Sitk., not 

 IJieb. P. suJmucbi, Benth. in DC. 1. c. 577. — Sitka, Mertens, &c. Norfolk Sound, Eschscholtz. 

 Also Labrador, according to Bunge, 1. c. 



P. ornithorhyncha, Benth. Habit, foliage, &c., of the preceding, according to the 

 character: " spike interrupted: calyx ovate-inflated ; the teeth nearly entire." — Hook. 1. c. 

 & DC. 1. c. — "On Mount Kanier, Oregon, Tolinie." Said to be related to P. rostrata, but 

 with more dissected leaves, having very acute lobes, and a smaller lip. 



-I— -f— -1^ -)— Galea falcate, arcuate, or with apex more or less incurved, or anteriorly curvilinear; 

 the beak very short and thick, or commonly none. 



++ Stems branching from a biennial or perhaps annual root: flowers from the axils and in short 

 terminal spikes: galea about the length of the lip, slcnder-bidcntulato at the lower part of the 

 ai)ex. 



P. euphrasioides, Stephan. A span or more high, pubcrulent: leaves lanceolate; 

 lower pinnately parted into lanceolate incisely serrate divisions; upper pinnatifid ; upper- 

 most closely crenate : calyx cleft in front and with 2 or 3 entire teeth behind : corolla half 

 inch long, yellowish and purplish ; galea little shorter than the tube, with a very short 

 and truncate horizontal beak. — Willd. Spec. iii. 204 ; Reichenb. Iconogr. i. t. 14 ; Benth. 

 I.e. P. Labrcidorica, Iloutt. Linn. Syst. viii. 89, t. 57. — Labrador to Behring Straits. 

 (Kamts. to Greenland.) 



P. palustris, L., var. Wlassoviana, Bunge. A foot high, glabrous: leaves all pin- 

 nately parted; the small segments oblong, incisely crenate : calyx 2-clef t ; lobes incisely 

 cristate : corolla narrow, half inch long, purplish ; lips much shorter than the tube ; galea 

 not at all rostrate, nearly straight, the anterior face curvilinear, a pair of minute additional 

 denticulations at the throat. — Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 283 ; Maxim. 1. c. P. Wlassoviana, 

 Stev. Monogr. 27, t. 9, fig. 1 ; Benth. 1. c. P. parviflora, Smith, ex Benth. — Hudson's 

 Bay to Kotzebue Sound, and south to Oregon. (Siberia.) 



•H- ++ Stems simple, from a perennial root, leafy, and along with the spike longer than the leaves. 

 = Atlantic States species, not alpine: leaves pinnatifid: spike short and dense. 



P. Canadensis, L. Hirsute-pubescent and glabrate, a span to a foot high : leaves ob- 

 long-lanceolate, rather deeply piimatifid ; lobes short-oblong, obtuse, incisely and the larger 

 doubly dentate : spike leafy -bracteate : calyx cleft in front : corolla ochroleucous or tinged 

 or variegated with purple, narrow, less than inch long; cucullate summit of the galea 

 incurved, its slightly produced tip emarginate-truncate and below conspicuously cuspidate- 

 bidentate: capsule gladiate-lanceolate. — Mant. 86; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2506; Sweet, Brit. 

 Fl. Card. t. 67. P. (jladiata, Michx. Fl. ii. 18. P. cequinoctialis, HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec ii. 

 332. — Moist woodlands and gravelly banks, Canada to the Saskatchewan, south to 

 Florida, and west to the Colorado Rocky Mountains. (Mex.) 



P. lanceolata, Michx. Glabrous or sparsely pubescent : stem robust, 1 to 3 feet high : 

 leaves not rarely opposite, thickish, lanceolate or oblong, moderately pinnatifid and the 

 short and broad lobes doubly crenatc-dentate, or the upper leaves merely crenate and the 

 teeth minutely crenulate : leafy bracts shorter than the flowers : calyx 2-lobed ; lobes 

 crested with a roundish appendage: corolla straw-color, an inch long, rather broad; cucul- 

 late summit of the galea incurved and produced into a somewhat beak-like evenly trun- 

 cate and edentulate apex: capsule ovate, oblique. — Fl. ii. 18; Benth. 1. c. 582. P. Vir- 

 ginica, Poir. Diet. v. 126. P. pallida, Pursh, Fl. ii. 424. P. aunculala, Smith, ex Benth. — 

 Swamps, Connecticut to Virginia, Ohio and the Saskatchewan. Perhaps this is also 

 P. resupinata, Pursh, 1. c, from Canada. 



= = Rocky Mountain species, tall or slender, not alpine. 

 a. Leaves undivided: galea bidentulate at tip, equalled by the lip. 



P. crenulata, Benth. Villous-pubescent, at length glabrate : stems a foot or less high : 

 leaves oblong-linear or narrower, obtuse (H to 3 inches long), closely crenate and the 



