SCKOPHULAIIIACE^E. (FIG WORT FAMILY.) 287 



* Calyx monophijllous ; the anterior division wanting : flowers strictly sessile in 



the axil of a clasping bract or leaf. 



2. C. Kingii, Watson. A foot or less high, diffusely branched, viscid- 

 pubescent or villous : leaves 1 or 2 inches long, mostly 3 to 5-parted into lin- 

 ear-filiform divisions : flowers loosely glomerate or somewhat scattered at the 

 summit of the slender branchlets : corolla less than an inch long, purplish. 

 Bot. King Exped. 233. S. W. Colorado to Utah and Nevada. 



15. PEDICULARIS, Tourn. LOUSEWORT. 



Leaves commonly pinnately cleft or dissected, mainly alternate : flowers in 

 a terminal bracteate spike, rarely in a raceme or scattered. 



* Gale. a produced into a filiform porrect or soon upturned beak ; throat with a 



tooth on each side ; tube of corolla nearly included in the 5-toothed calyx : 

 leaves lanceolate in outline, pinnately parted; the divisions acutely serrate or 

 pinnatifid: spike dense and many-flowered, naked: corolla dull rose-red or 

 crimson-purple. 



1 P. GrCBnlandica, Retz. Glabrous: spike 1 to 6 inches long: calyx- 

 teetli short : beak of the galea half-inch or more long, twice the length of the 

 rest of the corolla, decurved on the accumbent lower lip. Wet ground, from 

 New Mexico to British Columbia and Hudson's Bay. 



* * Galea of the short white corolla produced into a slender elongated-subulate 



circmate-incarved beak, nearli/ reaching the apex of the broad lower lip: calyx 

 cleft in front : whole plant yiabrous. 



2. P. racemosa, Dougl. A foot or so high, simple or sometimes branch- 

 ing, leafy to the top : leaves lanceolate, undivided, minutely and doubly crenu- 

 late, 2 to 4 inches long : flowers short-pedicelled, in a short leafy raceme or 

 spike, or the lower in remote axils and uppermost with bracts hardly surpass- 

 ing the 2-toothed calyx: slender beak of the galea hamate-deflexed. From 

 Colorado and Utah to California and British Columbia. 



* * * Galea falcate, and with a conical or thick-subulate beak, edentulate: leaves 



simply pinnatifid : floiuers half-inch long. 



3. P. Parryi, Gray. Glabrous, or the inflorescence slightly pubescent : 

 stem a span or two high, very leafy at base : leaves linear-lanceolate in outline, 

 deeply pinnately parted ; the divisions linear-lanceolate, closely callous- serrate ; 

 uppermost reduced to linear bracts: spike dense, l to 4 inches long: corolla 

 ochroleucous or more yellow ; galea strongly falcate, with decurved beak, of 

 about the length of the width of the galea. Am. Jour. Sci. n. xxxiii. 250. 

 In the mountains from Colorado and Utah to Wyoming and Montana. 



* * * * Galea falcate, arcuate, or with the apex more or less incurved., or ante- 



riorly curvilinear; the beak very short and thick or commonly none: stems 

 simple, leafy. 



M Not alpine : leaves pinnatifid : spike short and dense : cucullate summit of the 



galea incurved. 



4. P. Canadensis, L. Hirsute-pubescent and glabrate, a span to a foot 

 high : leaves oblong-lanceolate, rather deeply pinuatifid ; lobes short-oblong, 

 obtuse, incisely and the larger doubly dentate : spike leafy bracteate : corolla 



