392 SCROPHULARIA€EiE. (fIGWORT FAMILY.) 



ous. — Herbs, with branching stems, and opposite toothed or cut leaves 

 Flowers, small, spiked. (Name eixppaaia, cheerfulness, in allusion to its 

 reputed medicinal properties.) 



1. E. oflB-Cinalis, L. Low annual; leaves ovate or lanceolate, the 

 lowest creuate, the floral bristly-toothed; lobes of the lower lip of the (whit- 

 ish, yellowish, or bluish) corolla notched. — Coast of Maine and Lower Can- 

 ada; perhaps introduced from Eu. — Var. Tatarica, Benth., a low form 

 with small flowers (2-3" long), and mostly rounded leaves. — Alpine region 

 of N. H., shore of L. Superior, and far northward. 



24. BARTSIA, L. 



Calyx equally 4-cleft. Corolla with upper lip entire and sides not folded 

 back. ' ( )therwise much as Euphrasia. — Herbs, with opposite sessile leaves, 

 and subsessile flowers, in the upper axils and in a terminal leafy spike. 



B. Odontites, Huds. A span or two high from an annual root, branch- 

 ing, scabrous-pubescent ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, coarsely and remotely ser- 

 rate; spikes elongated, loosely-flowered; corolla small, rose-red. — Coast of 

 Maine and N. Scotia. (Nat. from Eu.) 



25. RHINANTHUS, L. Yellow-Rattle. 



Calyx membranaceous, flattened, much inflated in fruit, 4-toothed. Upper 

 lip of corolla arched, ovate, obtuse, flattened, entire at the summit, but with a 

 minute tooth on each side below the apex ; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 under the upper lip ; anthers approximate, hairy, transverse ; the cells equal, 

 pointless Capsule orbicular, flattened. Seeds many, orbicular, winged. — 

 Annual upright herbs, with opposite leaves ; the yellow flowers crowded in a 

 one-sided leafy -bracted spike. (Name composed of piv, a snout, and 6,vdos, a 

 flower, from the beaked upper lip in some species formerly of this genus.) 



\. R. Crista-galli, L. Leaves narrowly oblong to lanceolate, coarsely 

 serrate, the floral bracts more incised with bristle-tipped teeth ; corolla 6" 

 long; seeds broadly winged (when ripe they rattle in the inflated calyx, Avhence 

 the popular name.) — Coast of N. Eng. and alpine region of N. H., to L. 

 Superior, and northward. (Eu., Asia.) 



26. PEDICULAmS, Toum. Lousewort. 



Calyx various. Corolla strongly 2-lipped ; the upper lip arched, flattened, 

 often beaked at the apex ; the lower erect at base, 2-crested above, 3-lobed ; 

 lobes commonly spreading, the lateral ones rounded and larger. Stamens 4, 

 under the upper lip ; anthers transverse ; the cells equal, pointless. Capsule 

 ovate or lanceolate, mostly oblique, several-seeded. — Perennial herbs, with 

 chiefly pinnatifid leaves, the floral bract-like, and rather large flowers in a 

 spike. (Name from pediculus, a louse ; of no obvious amplication.) 



1. P. Canadensis, L. (Common Lousewort. Wood Betony.) 

 Hairy ; stems simple, clustered (5-12' high) ; leat.-es scattered, the lowest pin- 

 nateli/ parted, the others half-pinnatijid ; spike short and dense ; caljix split in 

 front, otherwise almost entire, oblique; upper lip of the (dull greenish-yellow 

 and purplish) coit)lla hooded, incurved, 2-toothed under the apex ; capsule y?af, 

 somewhat sword-shaped. — Copses and banks, common. May- July. 



