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I. B. alpiiia (Alpine Bartsia), a low, unbranched species, with 

 opposite, ovate leaves, and dull purple-blue fluwen in a short, 

 leafy spike. — Mountain pastures in the north ; rare. — Fl. June — 

 August. Perennial. 



13. Pedicl'I.Iris (Red-rattle). — Partially parasitic plants, with 

 scattered /fin'Ci, and /?"7C'('ri- generally red, in bracteate spikes or 

 racemes ; calyx inflated, somewhat leafy, unequally 5-toothed ; 



onoNTJTES RLDR.\ (R^'d Bartsin). 



(('/'('//((gaping, upper ///) arched, flattened vertically, loicerlip flat, 

 3-lobed , capsule flattened, olilique ; seeds angular. (Name from 

 the Latin pediciilus, a louse, the plant being supposed to produce 

 lice in sheep.) 



[. /-". paliistns (^larsh Ked rattle). An erect, branched, herba- 

 ceous plant, 6 — 1 8 in. high, nearly glabrous, with reddish brauehes: 

 leaves deeply pinnately cut ; flcncers large' and crimson, in a leafy 

 raceme; calyx down)'. — JNlarshes and bogs; common. It is often 



