338 SCROPHULARIACE^. [Pedicularis- 



1. F. palustris, 1j. Marsh Lousewort. Tall Redrattle. "Stem 

 solitary branched upwards erect, calyx broadly ovate hairy ribbed 

 with crenated nearly equal lobes." — Br. Fl. p. 297. E. B. t. 399. 



In low boggy places, wet meadows, pastures and thickets, in ditches, pools and 

 field-drains, in many parts of the island, hut not Tery general. Fl. May — Sep- 

 tember. or 2f .f 



E. Med. — Bookley moor, in the deep hogs about the Wilderness, &c. In San- 

 down level. Apse heath, where I have found it with white flowers. 



W. Med. — Abundant in the boggy meadows at Freshwater Gate. On School- 

 house farm, and by Sheepwash farm. Freshwater. By the stream between Caris- 

 brooke and Plash farm, near the latter. In wet swampy meadows above Newbridge, 

 and in the wet thicket by the stream between that place and Calbourne mill, 1844. 

 Moory ground between West Court and Sandy Way, 1846. Withy-bed at West 

 mill, between Newport and Carisbrooke, Mr. C. D. Snnoke in litt., 1842. 



A bushy plant, with a pyramidal mode of growth, and, like P. sylvatica, with 

 leaves resembling some fern. Root whitish, tapering, often considerably branched, 

 filamentous at the crown, by some thought to be annual, by others (as Wahlen- 

 berg) pronounced perennial. Subtending the bases of the radical leaves and 

 mixed with the filaments, may be found a few ovate, concave, pointed scales, as 

 remarked by Mr. Babington, perhaps abortive branches or leaves. Stem solitary, 

 erect, from under a foot to a yard in height, in small plants often simple, in larger 

 specimens copiously and alternately or oppositely branched from the base, subte- 

 retely angular, greenish at bottom, purplish and furrowed above, very leafy, solid, 

 glabrous (or a little downy, Sm.) Leaves scattered, alternate or subopposite, 

 oblong-lanceolate, the inferior ones on short, semiterete, flattish petioles, pale 

 green or more commonly purplish, deeply pinnatisect or pinnatifid, the segments 

 nearly opposite, oblong, blunl, crenately incised or sinuate, subpinnatifid, fleshy, 

 their thickened margins strongly deflexed, covered beneath with raised cellular 

 spots, their midribs with a few scattered hairs occasionally. Floivers in short 

 leafy clusters terminating the stem and branches, solitary in the axil of each pair 

 of leaf-like brads, on very short pedicels or nearly sessile. Calyx at first oblong, 

 subcylindrical, then ovate and ventricose, hispid, many and prominently ribbed, 

 often doited and stained with purple, laterally 2-lobed at the mouth, the lobes 

 shallow, their margins dull purple, crenately and unequally lobed, the lobes 

 rounded, minute, spreading and recurved. Corolla about twice as long as the 

 calyx, glabrous, the luhe whitish, subcylindrical, with many transparent ribs ; 

 upper lip small, dark purple, much compressed, veined and striate, with a pair of 

 minute subulate teeth just below its oblique apex, and a similar blunter pair a 

 little lower down of a dark purple colour ; loiver lip very large, of a fine rose-red, 

 minutely ciliate, cordato-orbicular, trifid, the central lobe smaller, circular, partly 

 concealed by the 2 lateral rather shorter ones, that are veined with purple towards 

 the throat, spreading and vaulted. Stamens nearly equal, 2 oiihe filaments a lit- 

 tle downy below their summit and at the base, the 2 upper a little hairy at the 

 base only ; anthers yellow, not bearded nor cohering in pairs. Style included, 

 filifnrm, glabrous ; stigma greenish, simple ; germeti obliquely conical, glabrous, 

 seated on a green glandular base which is very tumid and projecting in front. 

 Capsule brownish, its oblique mucronate apex projecting a little beyond the calyx, 

 quite glabrous, veined. Seeds ovato-oblong, dull reddish brown, rugoso-reticulate, 

 with a longitudinal chink on one side like those of coffee. 



The upper lip I find occasionally (at Easton and elsewhere) abbreviated into a 

 lanceolate process, leaving the stamens quite exposed. 



2. P. sylvatica, L. Pasture Lousewort. Dwarf Redrattle. 

 " Stem branched from the base and spreading, calyx oblong angu- 

 lar glabrous in 5 unequal crenate and almost leafy segments." — 

 Br. Fl. p. 297. E. B. t. 400. Steven. Monog. Pedicul. p. 45, No. 

 35, t. 1, fig. 1. 



