96 OROBANCHACER. (BROOM-RAPE FAMILY.) 
upper 3-5-parted, the floral with cuneate base and ciliate margins; corolla purplish, 6 to 
9 lines long. , 
2. C. pilosus, Gr. Larger, soft-villous and hoary; the floral leaves 3-toothed at the 
tip; corolla yellowish with some purple, less than an inch long. 
§2. Hemistecia, Gr.—Calyx 1-leaved; flowers without bractlets, each sessile in the axil 
of a claspiny bract; no glands at the tips of tie leaves, 
3. C. maritimus, Nut‘. Leaves smooth, somewhat fleshy, all entire; flowers in a 
capitate spike; corolla dull-purplish; pairs of filaments very unequal.—In salt marshes, 
4, C. mollis, Gr. Stamens only 2, with smooth filaments; the upper leaves toothed 
or pinnatifid.—Salt marshes. 
12. PEDICULARIS, Tourn. 
Calyx 2-5-toothed, irregular. Corollastrongly bilabiate; the galea arched and laterally 
compressed; the lip 2-crested above, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, inclosed in the galea; anthers 
transverse, equally 2-celled. 
1, P, densiflora, Benth. Nearly smooth, stout, becoming a foot or more high; 
leaves broad-lanceolate in outline, twice-pinnatifid or pinnately parted, and the divisions 
irregularly and sharply incised or toothed; the upper bracts of the dense elongated spike 
or raceme simpler; calyx-teeth, 5; corolla red or scarlet. 
-. Orprr 44. OROBANCHACH ZA. 
Root—parasitic herbs, destitute of leaves and green color. Distinguished from Scroph- 
wlariacee by the 1-celled ovary. 
1. APHYLLON, Mitch. 
Calyx 5-cleft, or 5-parted, regular or nearly so. Corolla tubular and curved, almost 
regular, or bilabiate. Stamens included; cells of the anthers deeply separated from below 
upward, mucronate at base. Stigma peltate or bilamellar.—Low pale or brownish herbs; 
the flowers yellowish or purplish. 
* Scapes or peduncles naked; corolla with an almost regular 5-lobed border. 
1, A. uniflorum, Gr. Coralla about an inch long, bluish purple, violet-scented. 
2, A. fasciculatum, Gr. Scaly stem rising out of the ground 2 or 3 inches, bearing 
many peduncles; lobes of the calyx not longer than the tube; flowers dull ycllow or 
purplish. 
* Stems rising above the ground; flowers bracteate; corolla plainly biiahate. 
3. A. comosum, Gr. Low, branching at or near the surface of the ground; flowers 
