BROOM-RAPE FAMILY. Orobanchaceae. 



This grows in dry rocky soil at high 

 Alpine Betony altitudes, forming a low clump of pretty 



Pediculbris , 1 



centranthtra bronze-colored leaves, cut into many 



Magenta and small crinkled lobes, and giving the effect 

 white of stiff little ferns, with a short spike of 



Spring oddly pretty flowers, each over an inch 



Utah, Ariz., 



New Mex. l n g Wltn a purplish, hairy calyx and a 



corolla with a white tube and magenta 

 lips, the anthers projecting like sharp little teeth from 

 under the arching upper lip. P. semibarbdia, growing in 

 dry woods in Yosemite, forms a rosette of crinkled bronze 

 foliage, with short spikes of yellow flowers. 



A handsome plant, with quaint flowers. 

 Elephants' Heads, The smoot h s l en der, purplish stem is a 

 Butterfly-tongue * 



Pediculdris ^ oot or more tall, with a few alternate 



Groenl&ndica leaves, and springs from a cluster of 

 P ink smooth, fern-like foliage, much like that of 



Summer p orn itf wr fiy nc }i a often tinged with bronze, 



West, etc. 



and bears a long, crowded spike or many 



flowers. They are slightly fragrant, about three-quarters 

 of an inch long, with purplish calyxes and deep pink or 

 reddish corollas, which look absurdly like little elephants' 

 heads. This grows in the mountains, across the continent. 



BROOM-RAPE FAMILY. Orobanchaceae. 



A rather small family, resembling Scrophulariaceae, 

 widely distributed; parasitic herbs, without green foliage, 

 with alternate scales instead of leaves; flowers perfect, 

 irregular; calyx five-cleft, or split on one or both sides; 

 corolla two-lipped; stamens four, in pairs, with slender 

 filaments, on the corolla-tube (sometimes also the rudi- 

 ment of a fifth stamen); ovary superior, style slender, 

 stigma disk-like, with two or four lobes; fruit a capsule. 



There are several kinds of Thalesia. 



A queer little thing, but pretty and 



One-flowered delicate, with a very short stem, mostly 

 Cancer-root . 



Thaltsia uniflbra underground, bearing one or more slender, 

 (Orobanche) slightly hairy, dull yellow, scaly flower- 

 Purplish stems from three to eight inches tall, each 

 Spring, summer with { j flo less than an inch j 



Northwest, Utah, . , , . 



etc> with a dull yellow, hairy calyx, and a 



hairy, lilac corolla, tinged with dull 

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