FIQWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



ous kind, about nine inches tall, with soft, thin, dull 

 green leaves, most oi them not lobed, and pale green bracts, 

 often tipped with white. The corollas are dull white, the 

 lower lip dotted with purple or yellow, and the whole effect 

 of the cluster is feathery, very slender, and pale in color. 

 There are a good many kinds of Pedicularis, usually with 

 finely-cut leaves and spikes of queerly-shaped flowers, 

 usually yellow, sometimes red or white; the corolla con- 

 spicuously two-lipped, the upper lip hood-like, long and 

 narrow, the lower lip three-lobed; the stamens four, two 

 of them short, in the upper lip; the capsule flattened or 

 compressed, beaked, splitting open, and containing many 

 seeds. These plants are supposed to cause lice in sheep 

 that feed on them, so they have the ugly name of Louse- 

 wort, both in English and Latin. 



A robust and very decorative plant, 

 Indian Warrior 



Pedicularis Wlt " nc " c l rin g- The stout, purplish 



densi flora stems are slightly hairy, from nine inches 



Crimson to nearly two feet tall, and spring from a 



? p f in l graceful cluster of large leaves, which are 



crisp in texture and smooth or slightly 

 downy, rich green and often tinged with bronze. The 

 flowers are an inch or more long, with purplish, hairy 

 calyxes and crimson corollas, and form a very handsome 

 though rather coarse-looking cluster, mixed with purplish 

 bracts, and finely shaded in color, frc-m the carmine buds 

 at the top to the wine-color of the faded flowers at the 

 base. This grows on wooded hillsides and in deep shade. 

 The flowers are sometimes white. 



This is an odd-looking plant, about six 

 Pedicularis inches tall, with a stout, purplish stem, 



omithorhyncha woolly at the top, springing from a pretty 

 Pink cluster of smooth, bright green leaves. 



Summer /p^ fl owers are about three-quarters of an 



Wash., Oreg. . . , .. , 



inch long, with purplish, woolly calyxes 



and bright pink corollas, which are veined and tipped with 

 deeper color, with purplish bracts. They are very eccen- 

 tric in shape and the upper lip has a ludicrous resemblance 

 to the head of a duck. This grows in the mountains. 



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