BROOM-RAPE FAMILY. Orobanchaceae. 



This grows in dry rocky soil at high 

 Alpine Betony altitudes, forming a low clump of pretty 

 PediculAris ' , , f A 



centranthlro. 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., , >,i 1-11- 1 



New Mex l n g with 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 smooth s i en der, purplish stem is a 

 Butterfly-tongue 



Pedicultiris * oot or more ta ^ Wltn a * ew alternate 



Groenldndica leaves, and springs from a cluster of 

 smooth, fern-like foliage, much like that of 

 P ' ornithor hy nc ha, often tinged with bronze, 

 and bears a long, crowded spike of 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 slende 

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

 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 anc 



One-flowered delicate, with a very short stem, mostl] 



Cancer-root 



Thaltsia unifldra underground, bearing one or more slender 



(Orobanche) slightly hairy, dull yellow, scaly flower 



Purplish stems from three to eight inches tall, eac 



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



Northwest, Utah, , . 



etc> with a dull yellow, hairy calyx, and 



hairy, lilac corolla, tinged with dul 

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