100 SWISS FLOWERS, 



rest of the flower is a beautiful purple, forming in the mass 

 vivid patches of colour. Sometimes specimens are met with 

 in which the orange is wanting, the plants being in all other 

 respects the same. Stony, gritty, places on mountains, 

 sand of rivers : Pilatus, Maderaner Thai, &c. 



79 and 80. Pedicularis. 



(PLATE XLIIL) 



These, if not among the most beautiful, are among the 

 most striking and interesting forms that are met with on 

 the Alps. They are easily recognized by their inflated calyx, 

 and by their peculiar leaves. These leaves are much divided 

 and subdivided, and are also wrinkled, in the style of the 

 Primrose-leaf, but the wrinkles are more tumid and clammy- 

 looking, and the leaf is much darker, having a kind of pink 

 mixture in the green. These leaves often take the form 

 of bracts at the base of the head of flowers, or mixed in 

 with them. The general character is — calyx inflated ; corolla 

 two lipped, the upper lip arched in the form of a helmet and 

 sometimes terminating in a long beak, the lower flat, and 

 three-lobed ; stamens four, two long, two short. The great 

 division of the family depends on whether the upper lip is 

 beaked or not. Of the latter, beside our own Marsh and 

 Wood-Lousewort, which are pretty plants, perhaps the most 



