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RED-RATTLE. PEDICULARIS. 

 TALL RED-RATTLE. Pedicularis palustris. 



Plate 9, fig. 3. 

 Stem single, erect, branched near the top. Calyx hairy. 



This, as well as the next species which is much like it, is 

 an elegant plant, though humble in growth, scarcely reaching 

 ten inches high, even in the shady and damp parts of woods, 

 where it grows the largest. Its flowers are of a fine dark 

 pink, stalked, and growing from the axils of the leaves. Its 

 calyx not toothed or lipped, as in all the rest of the class, but 

 puffed out, and deeply, but not regularly, scolloped on the 

 edge. The leaves are alternate, extremely handsome, being of 

 a beautiful fresh green color, and cleft down to the centre rib, 

 each of these clefts toothed on both edges. The capsule is 

 ovate, sharp -pointed, and with a long style projecting from it. 

 The stem is branched near the top, but not from the root. 



MARSH RED-RATTLE. Pedicularis sylvatica. 

 Plate 9, fig. 4. 



Stems two or three from the root, not branched. 



This does not grow so tall as the last, and although there 

 are generally two or more stems rise from the ground to each 

 root, yet they are very dwarf, by no means upright, and 

 mostly quite hid by the short grass of the heaths and thickets 

 among which they are found. The greater part of the leaves, 

 too, are not cleft into so many divisions, and the lower ones are 

 very often not divided at all. They both flower at the same 

 time, that is about June and July. 



TOAD-FLAX. LINARIA. 

 IVY-LEAVED TOAD-FLAX. Linaria cymbalaria. 



Plate 9, fig. 5. 

 Stem trailing. Leaves alternate. Flowers purple. 



Perhaps not a true native of Britain, but so easy of culture 

 and prolific of seed, so satisfied even with the nakedness of a 

 wall, and remaining so uninjured in every change of atmo- 



