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3. Pedicularis euphrasioides Steph. Eyebright Pedicularis 

 P. euphrasioides Steph. ; Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 204. 1801. 



Biennial or annual, puberulent; stem branched, 

 6 / -i5 / high, the branches ascending. Lower leaves 

 petioled, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate in outline, 

 7.'-\' long, 4 // -S // wide, pinnatifid into oblong ob- 

 tuse crenate-deutate segments; upper leaves sessile, 

 linear or linear-oblong, smaller, merely crenulate; 

 flowers in a short terminal spike and solitary in the 

 upper axils; calyx cleft on the lower side, 2-3- 

 toothed on the upper, shorter than the corolla-tube; 

 corolla yellow, or the galea purplish, about 6 // long; 

 galea as long as the tube, tipped with a very short 

 truncate beak, minutely 2-toothed on the lower side 

 at the apex; capsule apparently shorter than the 

 calyx. 



Labrador to Greenland, the Arctic Sea, Alaska and 

 British Columbia. Also in northern Asia. Summer. 



Pedicularis parviflora J. E. Smith. Purple Pedicularis. (Fig. 3333-) 



P. parviflora J. E. Smith in Rees' Cyclop. 1814. 

 Pedicularis Wlassoviana Stev. Mem. Soc. Nat. 



Mosc. 6: 29. pi. p, f. 1. 1823. 

 Pedicularis pahtstris var. Wlassoviana Bunge; 



Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 3: 283. 1847-49. 



Biennial or annual, glabrous throughout, or 

 the petiole-bases ciliate; stem erect, much 

 branched, i-2 high. Leaves i / -2 / long, 

 alternate, or some of them opposite, oblong- 

 lanceolate in outline, all pinnatifid into ob- 

 long crenate or incised segments; flowers in 

 terminal rather loose spikes and solitary in the 

 upper axils, 7 // -8 // long; calyx 2 cleft, the 

 lobes with an incised crested border; corolla 

 purple, its tube twice as long as the calyx, the 

 lip much shorter, the galea arched at the top, 

 not beaked, blunt, bearing a pair of minute 

 teeth below its summit; capsule obliquely 

 ovate, twice as long as the calyx when mature. 



Labrador to Alaska, south to Quebec, the North- 

 west Territory and Oregon. Summer. 



Pedicularis paliistris L , which differs from this in its larger flowers and apiculate galea, is re- 

 ported from Newfoundland and Labrador; it is widely distributed in Europe and Asia. It is known 

 as Red Rattle, Cow's-wort and Marsh Lousewort. 



5. Pedicularis lanceolata Michx. Swamp 

 Lousewort. (Fig. 3334.) 



Pedicularis la nceolata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2- 18. 1803. 

 Pedicularis auriculala Smith in Rees' Cyclop. 1814. 



Perennial, glabrous or very nearly so throughout; 



stem stout, simple, or branched above, i-3 high, 



the branches erect. Leaves alternate and opposite, 



lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 2 / -5 / long, pinnately 



lobed, the lower petioled, the upper sessile, the lobes 



oblong, obtuse, short, crenate-dentate, the margins 



cartilaginous; spikes short; calyx 2-lobed, the lobes 



with foliaceous margins; corolla yellow, S // -io // long, 



the galea arched, terminated by a very short truncate 



beak, the lower lip erect-ascending; capsule ovate, 



little exceeding the calyx, about 5" high. 



In swamps, Ontario to Connecticut and Virginia, west 

 to Manitoba, Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan, and Nebraska 

 (according to Williams). Aug. -Oct. 



