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in drying. Stem branched, especially above, the branches spreading or 

 ascending. Flowers light purple and spotted, one-half to three-fourths of 

 an inch long, on slender stalks longer than the corollas, from the axils of 

 the upper reduced leaves of the stem and branches; corolla funnelform, 

 vertically flattened and slightly two-lipped, the margin with five rounded 

 lobes, smooth within. Fruit a small globular capsule, one-sixth to one- 

 seventh of an inch in diameter, and longer than the calyx. 



In dry woods, thickets and fields, Quebec to Georgia, west to western 

 Ontario, Kansas and Texas. Flowering from August to October. 



The Seaside or Salt-marsh Gerardia (Agalinis maritima 

 Rafinesque) is rarely over a foot high, smooth and fleshy, with linear leaves 

 and small, purple flowers, one-half to two-thirds of an inch long. Common 

 in salt marshes along the coast. Another species (Agalinis acuta 

 Pennell), of sandy fields and depressions of the coastal plain, has stems 

 i to 2 feet tall and branched like A. purpurea, but the flowers are 

 somewhat smaller, light purple or rose-purple, and each of the five lobes 

 of the corolla indented. 



Swamp Lousewort 



Pedicularis lanceolata Michaux 



Plate 2o6a 



Stems rather stout, simple or usually somewhat branched above with 

 ascending branches, smooth, i to 3 feet high. Leaves sessile, opposite or 

 some of them alternate, narrowly lanceolate, 2 to 5 inches long, the lower 

 ones deeply lobed, the lobes oblong, blunt, short and crenately toothed, 

 with a thickened margin. Flowers pale yellow, three-fourths to i inch 

 long, in short clusters or spikes at the ends of the stems and branches, the 

 flowers subtended by the upper reduced leaves. Calyx two-lobed, the lobes 

 with toothed leaflike margins. Corolla with a slender tube and deeply 

 two-lipped, the upper lip (galea) laterally compressed, arched and terminated 

 by a short, blunt beak, the lower lip three-lobed, erect-ascending, the middle 

 lobe smallest. Stamens four, attached to the inside of the corolla tube and 

 ascending within the upper lip but not projecting out of the flower. Fruit 

 a small, ovate capsule as long as or but slightly longer than the calyx. 



