GERARDIA PEDICULARIA. 



FERN-LEAVED FALSE FOXGLOVE. 



NATURAL ORDER, SCROPHULARIACK.K. 



Gerardia pedicularia, L. — Smoothish or pubescent, much branched, two to three feet 

 high, very leafy; calyx five-cleft, the lobes often toothed; corolla yellow; the tube 

 elongated, woolly inside, as well as the anthers and filaments ; anthers all alike, scarcely 

 included, the cells awn-pointed at the base; leaves ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid, and the 

 lobes cut and toothed; peduncles longer than the hairy, mostly serrate calyx-lobes. 

 (Gray's Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States. See also Chapman's Flora 

 of the Southern United States, and Wood's Class-Booh of Botany.) 



HE genus Gerardia is so named in honor of one of the 

 most celebrated English botanists, who, as " Gerarde 

 the Herbalist," is constantly referred to in both botanical and 

 horticultural works. To a certain extent, Gerarde may be 

 regarded as the Linnaeus of the sixteenth century, and the great 

 Swede recognized the services which his English predecessor 

 had rendered to botany, by dedicating a genus to him when he 

 recast the genera of plants according to the system afterwards 

 known as the Linnsean. What the particular thought was in 

 the mind of Linnaeus, which induced him to perpetuate the 

 old English author's name by attaching it to a genus so com- 

 pletely American, does not appear. Modern botanists have 

 made attempts to deprive him of some of his honors; and 

 Rafmesque, whom Dr. Baldwin, in his correspondence with Dr. 

 Darlington, styles a "literary madman," endeavored to make 

 several srenera out of Gerardia. He calls some of them Dasan- 

 thcra, others Dasy stoma, others Eugerardia, and others, again, 

 Pagesia. Some botanists still retain these names. Dr. Gray, 

 however, whom we have credited with our leading descrip- 



