400 20. A. CRISTA GALLI. [CL. XIV. 



Very similar, although essentially different, is Rhinanthui 

 versicolor Lam., which grows on the shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean, in Italy and Africa. It has small, linear leave?, the ser- 

 rated teeth of which are somewhat ohtuse, and go very deep, 

 so that the leaves seem to he half-pinnated : the uppermost 

 leaves are dentated only at the base. The corolla is of a red- 

 dish purple, and is much longer than the calyx. This latter 

 part is not inflated, but it has also four teeth. The seeds 

 are not flatly compressed, but angular ; hence this species 

 properly belongs to the genus Bartsia, which, very like the 

 Alectorolophus^ is distinguished from it by its tubular, coloured 

 calyx, and by its angular seeds. The same is the case with 

 Rhlnanthus Trixago Linn. This plant of the South of 

 France, with a stem of an ell long, branched, and lanceolate^ 

 and with large and deeply serrated leaves, has its calyx and 

 seeds similar to those of the former species, and belongs, 

 therefore, to Bartsia, with which it is classed by De Can- 

 dolle. 



Allioni and Marschall of Bieberstein, have very properly 

 separated the genus Alectorolophus from Rhinanthus. The 

 latter genus is distinguished by its two-lipped calyx, and by 

 a tubular, beak-shaped upper-lip of the corolla, having a 

 broad appendage at the j)oint. To it belong RJunantlius 

 orientalis Mill., and Rh. cleplias L. These genera are ar* 

 ranged in the natural method with the Personata?, andj in- 

 deed, with the subdivision of the llhinanthe^e ; (Anleit.2. 397.) 



Synonynies and Figures. 



Crista galli, Dodon. oB^. Lohel Adv. '^IP.I. Hist. '285. Ic. 



5529. Dali'ch. 10T3. Mas et Fcemhia. J. Baiih. Hist. 



3. 436. Ger. Emac. lOTL Parh T/ieafr. 713. Riv. 



Monop. Irr. 

 Pedicularia lutea, Tabern. 1180. Prate nsis, Moris, sect. 11. 



t. 23. Tourn. hist. \1± 

 Alectorolophus calycibus glabris et hirsutis, Hall. Stirp. 



Helv. n. 313. 314. AlUon. Pedem. n. 205. .906. Al. Crista 



galli, Marsili. Bleb Taur. Caiic. 2. 68. 



