312 70. Pedieul. 22. RHINANTHACEiE. PL ex. cor. 



Bogs and damp pastures ; perennial ; June and July. 

 F Root fibrous; stem 18 in. high, angular; leaves spread; 

 flowers large, purple ; calyx rather leaflike ; galea slightly 

 nicked ; lohes of the lip round, fringed. 



2. Pedicularia sylvatica. Wood louseworf. 



Stem much branched at the bottom, simple above ; leaves 

 pinnate ; pinnce ovate, acutely toothed ; calyx oblong, in- 

 flated, unequally 5-cut, crested; galea blunt, truncated, 

 acutely 2-toothed. 



Pedicularis pratensis rubra vulgaris, Rati Syn. 284 *, 3 ; Park. 713. 

 Pedicularis, Ger. em. 1071, 1. 

 Pedicularis sylvatica, Lin. S. P. 845. 

 Lousewort. Red rattle. Rattle grass. 



Pastures ; perennial ; June and July. 



i?oo^ fusiform ; stem 9 in. high, erect; Iranches spreading; 

 leaves radical, simple, ovate ; flowers large, rose-colour ; lip 

 of the corolla unequally 3-cut; edge bald. — Juice, or de- 

 coction, a good injection for sinuous ulcers : farmers sup- 

 pose it renders sheep scabby, overrun with vermin, and 

 makes their wool loose. 



VIII. 71. MELAMPYRUM.Theophrastus. Cow-wheat. 

 Calyx tubular, 4-cut; corolla tubular, 2-lipped, com- 

 pressed ; galea arched, edge replicate ; lip furrowed, 3-cut ; 

 stamens 4, didynamous ; capsule oblong, obliquely pointed, 

 compressed; cells 2-seeded, gibbous, smooth. — Leaves op- 

 posite ; flowers opposite, spiked, terminal ; hactece leaflike, 

 edge of the base crested. 



1. Melampyrum crisiatum. Crested cow-iuheat. 

 Spike 4-angular; braciece heartshape, compact, imbricate, 



toothed. 



Melampyrum cristatum, florealbo et purpureo, Saii Syn, 286 *, 1. 

 Melampyrum cristatum, Lin. S. P. 842. 

 Crested cow-wheat. 



Woods and cornfields ; annual ; July. 



iS^em rough, 4.-angular; leaves linear, not cut; spike so- 

 litary, many-flowered ; braciece compressed, coloured, pec- 

 tinately toothed. 



2. Melampyrum arvense. Corn-field cow-wheat. 

 Spike conical, lax; bractece lanceolate, pinnately toothed; 



teeth coloured, setaceous ; teeth of the calyx rough. 



