RED WILD FLOWERS 
This feature is unusually showy and attractive. The 
irregular greenish yellow corolla of the tubular flower 
has a long, narrow arched upper lip, and a short 
three-lobed lower lip, and is set in a longer, flattened, 
tubular, two-lobed and usually green or sometimes 
scarlet calyx. The flowers are hidden within their 
conspicuous, three-parted, bright red or scarlet bracts. 
They have four unequal stamens, and a long pistil set 
within the long upper lip of the flowers, which are 
closely grouped in a terminal leafy cluster. The 
Painted-cup is found from May to July, in low, sandy 
grounds, from Canada to Virginia, Tennessee, Kan- 
sas and Texas. Rarely the bracts and calyxes are 
yellow. This species was dedicated to a Spanish 
botanist named Castillejo. 
WOOD BETONY. LOUSEWORT. BEEF- 
STEAK PLANT. HIGH HEAL-ALL 
Pedicularis canadénsis. Figwort Family. 
Looking directly downward upon the tousled, 
whirligigged, floral spike of the Wood Betony, one 
is immediately impressed with its rip-saw symmetry. 
And, if it is plucked and twirled ’twixt the fore* 
finger and thumb, the illusion becomes quite real and 
amusing. As we recall frequent-references to the 
Betony of ancient history, we are apt to connect it 
with our native species, but it is the European plant, 
Betonica officinalis, that was frequently extolled for 
its many physical and medicinal charms and virtues. 
Our own curious Wood Betony has one unhappy con- 
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