582 SCROPIIULAIIIACE/E. Cordylanlhus. 



« * * Stamens only 2, xirith glabrous filaments : anthers unequally 2-celled : -upper 

 leaves and bracts incisely pinnatifid or toothed. 



9. C. mollis, CI ray, 1. c. Barely a foot high, with numerous branches, viHous- 

 hireute : leaves oblong hnear ; the lower entire and obtuse ; the ui)per and tlie 

 bmcts with '1 to 1 pairs ol* laeiniato obtuse teeth or lobes : Uowers in short tliickisli 

 spikes : corolla whitish or yellowish, with some dull purple. 



Salt-marshe3 of Saii Fiaiicisco J^ay, at Mare Island and Vallejo, C. Wright, E. L. Greene. 

 Corolla tluee fourths of an inch long. Seeds somewhat reuiform, with a loose and thick cellular- 

 reticulated coat. 



19. PEDICULARIS, Tourn. Lousewort. 

 Calyx 2-5-toolluid, irregular. Corolla strongly l)iLd)iate ; the upper lip (galea) 

 arched and laterally compre.sscul, sometimes beaked; the lower erect at base, li-crested 

 above, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, enclosed in the upper lip : anthers transverse, equally 

 2-celled, all or in pair-s closely approximate. Style filiform : stigma small, entire. 

 Capsule ovate or lanceolate, oblique, compressed, more or less loculicidal. Seeds 

 several or numerous, comparatively large, ovoid. — Perennial herbs ; with alternate 

 or sometimes opposite or whorled leaves, those mostly pinnately divided or lobed, 

 the lloral ones commonly reduced to bracts ; the llowers commonly spicate, some- 

 times mcemose, of various colors, 'riie Uiaves in ours all or mostly alt.ernate. 



A genus of nearly 150 species, widely distributed, but chiefly in the northern lieniis|ihere and 

 in cool temperate or arctic regions, more numero\is from Oregon iiortliwaid and in tiie Kocky 

 Mountains than in California, which, however, has two or three peculiar species. 



* Leaves undivided, merely serrate : fioivers racemose : corolla beaked. 



1. P. racemosa, Dougl. Glabrous or nearly so : stems numerous in a cluster, 

 a foot or two high, A'cry leafy : leaves lanceolate, with narrowed base more or less 

 petioled, closely and often doubly crenate-serrate ; the upper floral or brads linear 

 and entire and shorter than the flowers, but the raceme leafy below : calyx split 

 down the front, 2-toothed posteriorly : corolla white or purplish, with tube hardly 

 exceeding the calyx ; the upper lip strongly incurving and tapering into a subulate 

 beak which touches the broad lower lip : anthers pointed at base. — Hook. Fl. 

 ii. 108. 



Mountain woods, Sierra and Bear Valleys, Lcmmon, Bolandcr. Also Utah and Colorado in the 

 higher mountains, and north to British Columhia. 



* v< Leaves at least once pinnatifid. 

 +■ Upper lip of the corolla tipped with a long and slender proboscis ; its base with a 

 tooth on each side : anthers very blunt : stem and virgate spike strict, together from 

 a s-/)an to 2 feet high. 



2. P. Groenlandica, Retz. Glabrous : leaves lanceolate in outline, pinnately 

 parted ; the divisions linear-lanceolate, sharply and sometimes incisely serrate: calyx 

 campanulate; the 5 teeth short: corolla rose-colored, short, barely half the length 

 of the fdiform deflexed and then ascending or recurved beak, this nearly half an 

 inch long. — Fl. Dan. t. IIGG, poor. P. incarnata, Iictz, Obs. iv. 27, t. 1. J', sur- 

 recta, Benth. in Hook. Fl. ii. 107, & Prodr. x. 5GG ; the larger-flowered form, which 

 prevails. 



Higher jtarts.of the .Sierra Nevada from Placer Co. (Turret/) east to the Kocky Mountains, and 

 north to British Columbia, Labrador, and Greenland i 



3. P. attollens, Gray. Glabrous below : the dense spike rather woolly : leaves 

 lanceolate or linear in outline, pinnately parted, with linear or somewhat oblong 

 divisions, some of the lowest leaves nearly bipinnatitid ; the upper scattered, gradu- 



