Scroplmldria.'] Lxii, scrophulapjace^. 



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6. Pedicularis Linn. Louse-wort. 



Cal inflated, 5-cleft, or unequally 2— S-lobed, jagged, some- 

 what leafy. Upper Zz/> of the cor. laterally compressed, arched; 

 lower one plane, 3-lobed. Ovary with many ovules. Caps. 



Name 



Seeds angular. 



oblique, acute, compressed, 2-celled. 



(ierived from its supposed property of producing" the lousy dis- 

 ease in slieep that feed upon it, a malady which rather arises 

 from the wet pastures where such plants, grow. 



1. F. palustrislj. (Marsh L,) ; stem solitary branched up- 

 wards erect, calyx broadly ovate hairy ribbed with crenate 

 nearly equal lobes. E. B. t. 399. 



Wet and marshy pastures, 

 with many lateral branches. 



or 2/. ? 5—9. — Stem 1 ft. hidi. 





inches long. 



Leaves some or all of them opposite, 

 pinnate; pijin^ ovate, almost pinnatifid. Cal slightly hairy on the 

 outside, nearly glabrous within, not inflated, spotted. Cor. crimson ; 

 upper lip with a projecting tooth on each side below the middle, trun- 

 cated and with a tooth at the apex on each side, lower one fringed. 

 The two anterior stamens hairy to near the base, hairs moniliform 

 two posterior ones glabrous. 



2. P. sylvdtica L. (Pasture i.) ; stem branched from the base 

 and spreading, calyx oblong angular glabrous In 5 unequal cre- 

 nate and almost leafy segments. E. B. t. 400. 



Moist pastures and heaths, common 1/.. 4 — 7, — Stem$ S 5 



Leaves alternate, lower ones pinnatifid, the rest pin- 

 nate with deeply serrated pinnce. Cal quite glabrous on the out- 

 side, woolly within at the mouth, inflated, reticulated with green 

 veins. Cor. rose-coloured (or white); upper lip without any pro- 

 jecting tooth about its middle,, truncate and with a tooth at the apex 

 on each side; lower one not fringed* The two anterior stamens have 

 many moniliform hairs near the apex : two posterior ones glabrous or 

 scabrous, 



■ [^Mimulus lut-ens W. is now naturalised in many boggy places.] 



7. ScROPHuxARiA Linn, 'Fi^y^ovi.. 



CaZ. 5-lobed (or In >S^. vernqlis deeply 5-cleft). Car. sub- 

 globose, its limb contracted with 2 short lips ; the npper with 

 2 straight lobes, and frequently a small scale or abortive stamen 

 within it; the lower 3-lobed, the two lateral lobes straight, 

 middle one decurved. Caps. 2-celled, 2-valved, septlcidal, the 

 margins of the valves turned inwards. — Named from the 

 Scrofula^ the roots of some species resembling scrofulous tu- 

 mours, which they were therefore in the dark ages of medical 

 knowledge supposed to cure. 



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Caly,jc with 5 rounded lohes^ Cor. purplish, the ttvo vpper lobes longer 



than the two lateral ones ; npper lip with a scale^ \ 



1, S. nodosa L. (knotted F.) ; leaves cordate-trinngular acute 



