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row and arched, flattened laterally. Lower lip short, 3-lobed. Stamens 
4, unequal. E 
1. C. coccinea, (L.) Spreng. (Fig. 4, pl. 146.) Scarter PaIntep- 
cup. Annual, stem angular, erect, not branched or with few branches, 1 . 
to 2 ft. high, whole plant hairy. Lower leaves clustered, margins mostly 
entire, upper leaves deeply about 3- to 5-lobed, the segments nearly linear. 
Flowers dull yellow, inconspicuous by reason of the bright scarlet bracts 
which exceed the flowers in length and brillianey, one flower in the axil of 
each of the colored bracts. A showy and beautiful plant. In wet meadows, 
Not common. May-June. 
2. C. pallida, (L.) Spreng. ¢(Fig. 5, pl. 146.) LaNcre-LEAVED 
PAINTED-cuP. (Var. septentrionalis, Gray.) Leaves all entire at borders, 
alternate, lance-shaped, without leaf-stalks. Flower bracts large, obtuse 
at apex and generally dentate, yellowish or greenish-white, as long as the 
flowers, corolla yellowish. Higher regions of the White Mountains. June- 
Aug. 
22. SCHWALBEA, L. 
Perennial herb, with alternate leaves and large purple flowers in a 
bracted spike. Calyx tubular, the 5 teeth quite unequal, at the base of 
the calyx 2 narrow bracts. Corolla very irregular, the tube long, slender, 
the upper lip entire, arched, lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, unequal, in the 
upper lip of the corolla. Capsule oblong, many seeded, seeds chaffy. 
S. americana, L. CHArFrF-SEED. Stem 1 to 2 ft. high, erect, downy. 
Leaves oblong or egg-shaped, the upper small, narrow, passing into bracts 
of the flower spike. Flowers 1 to 14 in. long, without flower stems; co- 
rolla yellowish-purple. Wet soil, eastern Mass., and southward. May- 
July. 
23. EUPHRASIA, L. 
Small herbs, generally branching, parasitic on the roots of other plants. 
Leaves opposite, dentate or incised. Flowers small, white, blue or yellow 
in leafy bracted spikes. Calyx tubular, 4-cleft. Upper lip of corolla 
2-lobed, erect, the sides turned back. Lower lip 3-cleft, spreading. Sta- 
mens 4, unequal, under the upper lip. Capsule oblong, flattened, seeds 
numerous. ; 
1. E. americana, Wettst. (Fig. 8, pl. 146.) Harry Eyesricut. 
Stem 3 to 10 in. high; whole plant hairy or mostly smooth. Leaves with- 
out leaf-stalks, opposite, rounded, large teeth at margin. Flowers in a 
terminal rounded cluster or a slightly elongated spike, purple, varying to 
white, the cluster with leafy bracts, the bracts sharply toothed. Fields 
and hills, Maine. All summer. 
2. E. Oakesii, Wettst. (Fig. 7, pl. 146.) Oakers’s Eyrsricut. Stem 
1 to 2 in. high. Stem leaves 1 or 2 pairs. Flower cluster round, the bracts 
bluntly toothed. Summits of the White Mountains. 
Several species and varieties of Huphrasia, resembling the species above 
described but differing in some slight particulars, are reported as found 
locally by Robinson and others, 
24. ODONTITES, Gmel. 
Herbs, with opposite leaves and slender spikes of red or yellow flowers. 
