PRDrIoves his SCROPHULARIACEA 589 
RHINANTHUS 
the teeth nearly entire: corolla about half-inch long, galea falcate, with a 
narrow beak longer than its width, lower lip much smaller. Mount 
Rainier, Washington. 
P. parviflora J. E. Smith in Rees’ Cyclop. 1814. Glabrous: stems 
about a foot high, branching, from a biennial or perhaps perennial root: 
leaves all pinnately parted; the small segments Sbiote! incisely crenate : 
calyx two-cleft, its lobes incisely cristate: corolla narrow. 6 lines long, 
purplish, its lips much shorter than the tube; galea not at all beaked, 
nearly straight, the anterior face curvilinear and slender-bidentate at the 
lower part of the apex, and a pair of minute additional denticulations at 
the throat. Alpine or subalpine, Oregon to Alaska and Hudson Bay. 
P. bracteosa Benth. 1. c, Glabrous perennial: stem stout, 1-3 feet 
high, erect and simple, Jeafy only near the middle: leaves linear to ovate 
in outline, the radical few, petioled, pinnate, the oblong leaflets 14-1 
inch long and pinnately parted, the segments incisely dentate, the 
teeth often tipped with white: cauline broader in outline, 2-4 inches long, 
pinnate or pinnately parted, the segments narrowly lanceolate, 1-2 inches 
long, coarsely serrate: bracts ovate, acuminate, shorter than the flowers: 
spikes cylindrical, in flower very dense: calyx sparsely pilose, 9 lines 
long, its teeth subulate from a broad base: corolla about an inch long, 
ochroleucous, the tube about equalling the calyx; galea much longer and 
larger than the lower lip, its cucullate summit slightly produced at the 
entire edentulate orifice, but not beaked. In open forests of high moun- 
tains, eastern Oregon to Brit. Columbia and the Saskatchewan. 
P, densiflora Benth. Hook, Fl. ii, 110. Pubescent or glabrate per- 
ennial: stem stout, 6-20 inches high, leafy, simple: leaves ample, 4-12 
inches long, of oblong outline, bipinnatifid, or pinnately parted and the 
lobes laciniate-dentate, the irregular salient teeth cuspidate-tipped: 
lower bracts leaf-like, uppermost almost entire and equalling or shorter 
than the flowers: spikes at first very dense, oblong, 2-5 inches long, in age 
looser and sometimes a foot long: calyx campanulate, about 6 lines long 
- by 4-5 broad, 5-toothed, the triangular acute teeth about half as long as 
the tube: corolla 12-18 lines long, scarlet; galea completely straight and 
anteriorly rectilinear, very much longer and larger than the very small 
3-lobed lower lip: filaments glabrous. On dry hillsides, southern Oregon 
and California, 
23 RHINANTHUS L. Sp. 603. 
Erect annual herbs with opposite leaves and yellow, blue or 
variegated flowers in terminal secuna leafy-bracted spikes, or sol- 
itary in the upper axils. Calyx compressed, 4-toothed, much 
inflated, membranaceous and veiny in fruit. Corolla very irreg- 
ular or bilabiate, the upper lip compressed, arched, minutely 
2-toothed below the entire apex, the lower lip shorter, 3-lobed, 
the lobes spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under 
the galea. Anthers pilose, the cells obtuse at base, transverse, 
distinct. Capsule orbicular, flat, loculicidally dehiscent, severai-’ 
seeded. Seeds nearly orbicular, winged. 
R. Crista-Galli L. Sp. 603. Glabrous, or pubescent above: stem 
slender, usually branched, 1%-2 feet high: leaves lanceolate, 1-2 inches 
long, sessile, coarsely serrate denta e: bracts broader, ovate to ovate-lan- 
ceolate, incised-dentate, the teeth acumina’‘e, or subulate-tipped: flowers 
yellow, 6-8 lines long: corolla-tu e longer than the calyx, commonly with 
a purple spot on one or both lips: fruiting calyx ovate-orbicular, 4-8 lines 
