3* FLOWERS OF THE BOGS AND MARSHES 



The flowers are like those of P. sylvatica, but the tube is shorter. 

 They contain honey secreted at the base of the ovary. The corolla 

 has a cylindrical tube with an enlarged throat into which insects thrust 

 the head. The upper lip is 3-toothed, narrow; the lower, 3-lobed, 

 serving as an alighting-place. The 4 stamens are concealed by the 



upper lip. The two posterior 

 anther-stalks are hairy, and 

 serve to protect the honey 

 from the rain and flies, and 

 the anthers are adherent by 

 the close-set hairs near the 

 base in Common Red Rattle, 

 but not in this plant, as they 

 are close together. 



The seeds, contained in 

 a capsule which splits open 

 above, are dispersed around 

 the plant automatically or by 

 the wind. 



Marsh Reel Rattle is a 

 peat - loving plant, anel will 

 only grow on a peat soil, or 

 where there is clay with 

 humus. 



A cluster-cup fungus, Puc- 

 cinia paludosa, attacks the 

 leaves. A beetle, Longitar- 

 sus holsaticns, infests Marsh 

 Lousewort. 



PediculariS) Gerarde, is 

 from the Latin pcdicnhis, 

 louse, because it was said to 

 produce a lousy disease in 

 sheep. The second Latin 

 name refers to the marshy habitat. 



This plant is called Cock's - comb, Cow's - wort, Dead Men's 

 Bellows, Rattle-grass, Lousewort, Moss Flower, Red Rattle, Suckies. 

 The name Rattle-grass, according to Gerarde, is explained because the 

 dry. somewhat inflated calices rattle audibly when shaken. Lyte 

 explains Lousewort as follows: "In Latine Pedicularis, that is to say 

 Louse herbe, in high Dutch Leuszkraut, by cause the cattell that 



MAKSII RKD RATTLE (Pedicitlaris pahtstris, L.) 



