Pedicularis. SCROPHULARIACE^. 307 



++ ++ Stem scapiform, or sometimes bearing a pair of leaves, low : leaves doubly pinnatifid : 

 corolla probably purple: decurved or porrect narrow beak longer than the breadth of the galea: 

 plants nearlj' glabrous, onlj' a span high. 



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

 sions incisely pinnatifid ; lobes very small, dentate : spike capitate and with one or two 

 more distant pedicellate leafy-bracted flowers at base : calyx-lobes toothed or incised : 

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

 432 (name only) & in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 278 ; Maxim. I. c. 111. P. nasuta, Bong. Sitk., not 

 Bieb. P. subimda, 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 Ranier, Oregon, Tolmie." Said to be related to P. rostmta, but 

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



+- +— -1— -1— Galea falcate, arcuate, or with apex more or less incurved, or anteriorly curvilinear; 

 the beak very short and thick, or commonly none. 



■H- 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, slender-bidentulate at the lower part of the 

 apex. 



P. euphrasioides, Stephan. A span or more high, puberulent : 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. 

 1. c. P. LabmdoHca, Houtt. Linn. Syst. viii. 39, t. 57. — Labrador to Behring Straits. 

 (Kamts. to Greenland.) 



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

 nately parted ; the small segments oblong, incisely crenate : calyx 2-cleft ; 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. I. c. P. WlassoiHuna, 

 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.) 



++ ++ 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 pinnatifid ; lobes short-oblong, obtuse, incisely and the larger 

 doubly dentate : spike leafj'-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. 250(3; Sweet, Brit. 

 Fl. Gard. t. 67. P. gladiata, Michx. Fl. ii. 18. P. aquinoctialis, HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. ii. 

 232. — 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 tlie 

 short and broad lobes doubly crenate-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. 17;- 

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

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

 P. resupmata, 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. Vinou.s-pubescent, at length glabrate : stems a foot or less high : 

 leaves oblong-linear or narrower, obtuse (1^ to 3 inches long), closely crenate and the 



