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Stem rather stout, 3 inches to 2 feet higli, usually much 

 branched. Leaves 1 to 4 inches long, finely divided, somewhat 

 resembling those of some of the ferns, such as Cystopteris. 

 Pedicels much shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx at first oblong- 

 cylindrical, afterwards inflated and bladdery, stained with dull- 

 purple. Corolla 1 inch long, rather more than twice as long as 

 the calyx, dull purplish-pink ; the upper lip much compressed, 

 and dark brownish-purple at the apex. Capsule longer than the 

 calyx, about J inch. Plant dull-green, often stained with lurid- 

 purple, nearly glal)rous, with a few scattered hairs on the stem, 

 rachis, and towards the bases of the leaves, the calyx with scattered 



jointed hairs. 



** JJpnght Loiisewort. 



French, Pediculaire des Marais. Geruian, Sumpf-L'duselcraut, Moorkonig. 



The species of this genus have not a good reputation among farmers ; and it is 

 said that sheep eating any of them are shortly affected with disease, and covered with 

 vermin. This may arise from the fact that no animal will eat them when other food 

 is attainable ; and they grow in marshy ground, and situations very unfavourable to 

 the health of animals, and likely to occasion and account for disease without the diet 

 so condemned. 



SPECIES II.-PEDICULARIS SYLVATICA. Liim. 

 Plate DCCCCXCVII. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXLIX. Fig. 1 ; MDCCCXXVI. 



Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 12—18. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1736. 



Stems numerous from the crown of the rootstock, decumbent, 

 simple, the central stem reduced to a raceme, the lateral ones 

 elongated. Leaves alternate, pinnatipartite, with the segments 

 pinnatifid, and the ultimate segments subacute. Plowers in lax 

 spikelike racemes. Calyx in fruit oval-ovoid, glabrous, cut into 

 5 lobes divided like the segments of the leaves, and except the 

 upper one, which is smaller and entire, crimped and ciliated with 

 short woolly hairs in the sinus between the lobes. Upper lip 

 of corolla not rostrate, with the margin on each side furnished 

 with a triangular tooth immediately below the apex, but without 

 any tooth below the middle. Capsule oval-ovoid, abruptly rounded 

 above at the apex, the beak forming a continuation of the lower 

 side. 



On wet heaths and damp pastures and thickets. Common, and 

 generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or perennial ? 

 Spring to Autumn. 



