260 CLASS XIV. ORDER II. 



278. BARTSIA. 

 Bahtsia pallida. L. Pale Bartsia. 



Leaves alternate, linear, undivided, the upper ones 

 lanceolate, the floral ones subovate, slightly toothed 

 at the end, all three nerved ; calyx teeth acute. 

 Willd. 

 Syn. Castilleja septentrionalis. Hooker. 



Stem ascending, furrowed, pubescent. Leaves alternate, ses- 

 sile, lanceolate, three or five nerved, nearly smooth. Bractes 

 straw colored, oblong-ovate, five nerved, with a tooth or two at 

 the end. Flowers straw colored. Calyx two cleft, the divisions 

 emarginate. Corolla pubescent, its upper lip long and tapering, 

 entire ; lower lip short, three cleft. Style longer than the sta- 

 mens, — On the barren summits of the White mountains. — Au- 

 gust. — Perennial. It also inhabits Siberia. 



Bartsli coccinea. L. Painted Cup. 



licaves alternate, linear, cut-pinnatifid with linear 

 segments; bractes dilated, mostly three cleft, longer 

 than the flowers; calyx teeth obtuse. 

 Syn. EucHROMA coccinea. Nutt. 



Castilleja coccinea. Kunth. 



Stem reddish, pubescent, angular. Leaves alternate, sessile, 

 pinnatifid with a few long, linear segments. Flowers in a ter- 

 minal spike. The bractes, which constitute the chief beauty of 

 this plant, are three or five cleft, the segments oblong, obtuse, 

 and of a bright scarlet color at top. Calyx tubular, two cleft, 

 the segments truncate, slightly emarginate, yellowish, tipt with 

 scarlet. Corolla dull yellow, tubular, with two oblong lateral 

 pits at base ; its lower lip very short, curved, with three small 

 ovate lobes ; upper lip straight, somewhat truncate. Stamens 

 as long as the upper lip. Germ ovate, style filiform, projecting, 

 incurved ; stigma capitate. — Wet meadows near Fresh pond. — 

 June. 



