582 . SCROPHULARIACE.E. Cordylanlhus. 



* %* % /Stamens only 2, vnth glabrous filaments : anthers unequally 2-celled : upper 

 leaves and bracts incisely pinnatifid or toothed. 



9. C. mollis, Gray, 1. c. Barely a foot liigh, with numerous branches, villous- 

 hirsute : leaves oblong linear ; the lower entire and obtuse ; the upper and the 

 bracts Avith 2 to 4 pairs of laciniate obtuse teeth or lobes : flowers in short thickish 

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



Salt-marshes of San Francisco Bay, at Mare Island and Vallejo, C. Wright, E. L. Greene. 

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

 reticulated coat. 



19. PEDICULARIS, Toum. Lousewort. 

 Calyx 2 - 5-toothed, irregular. Corolla strongly bilabiate ; the upper lip (galea) 

 arched and laterally compressed, sometimes beaked ; the lower erect at base, 2-crested 

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

 2-celled, all or in pairs 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, these mostly pinnately divided or lobed, 

 the floral ones commonly reduced to bracts ; the flowers commonly spicate, some- 

 times racemose, of various colors. The leaves in ours all or mostly alternate. 



A genus of nearly 150 species, widely distributed, but chiefly in the northern hemis])heie and 

 in cool temperate or arctic regions, more numerous from Oregon northward and in the Rocky 

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



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



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

 a foot or two high, very leafy : leaves lanceolate, with narrowed base more or less 

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

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

 down the front, 2-toothed pcsteriorly : 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, Lemmon, Bolander. Also Utah and Colorado in the 

 higher mountains, and north to British Columbia. 



Ht * Leaves at least once pinnatifid. 

 -f- Upper Up of the corolla tipped with a long ayid slender 2>'>^oboscis ; its base with a 

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

 a span to 2 feet high. 



2. P. GrCBnlandica, Tietz. 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 filiform deflexed and then ascending or recurved beak, this nearly half an 

 inch long. — Fl. Dan. t. 1166, poor. P. incarnata, Eetz, Obs. iv. 27, t. 1. P. sur- 

 recta, Benth. in Hook. Fl. ii. 107, & Prodr. x. 566; the larger-flowered form, which 

 prevails. 



Higher parts of the Sierra Nevada from Placer Co. ( Torrey) east to the Rocky Mountains, and 

 north to British Columbia, Labrador, and Greenland ? 



3. P. attoUens, 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 bipinnatifid ; the upper scattered, gradu- 



