Pedicularis.] scuophulaeiace^. 359 



p. Flowers white. 



Tn boggy, wet or damp pastures, on moist heaths and commons, in marshy 

 thickets and spongy turfy meadows ; much more frequent and general than the 

 last. Fl. April— July. © or 2^. 



£1. Med. — Meadows near Alverston mill. Plentiful all over Munsley hill, and 

 in wet meadows below Bridge. Oii Bleak-down. On Rookley moors, about the 

 Wilderness, Rookley farm, and common in moory pastures along the valley of the 

 Medina generally. Between Ninham and Quarr. About Ninham, near Eyde ; 

 and on Wootton common. 



W. Med. — Abundantly in wet meadows about Woolverton, by Shorwell. In 

 the large pasture-fields by the Yar, between Freshwater mill and Beckett's copse. 



/3. Between Shanklin and Sandown, under the cliffs. About Bridge, Rookley, 

 &c., not uncommon. 



Root large, white and spongy, with a tongh woody centre, more or less forked, 

 chiefly below, into several long, tapering, nearly simple branches, and having at 

 the crown a whorl of ovate or oblong leaves, with crenate deflexed margins, and 

 often subtended by a few brown filamentary scales. Stems mostly numerous, 

 leafy, simple or slightly branched at the very base, subtereti-angular ; the pri- 

 mary one erect, from about 2 to 4 inches high, the lateral for the most part bar- 

 ren and spreading, ascending or prostrate around the central one in a circular 

 more or less csespitose tuft, nearly glabrous, with a few scattered hairs chiefly on 

 their upper part. Leaves very small, about 1 to 1^ inch in length and Jth of an 

 inch wide, linear-oblong, not tapering to the apex as in P. palustris, glabrous, 

 dull olive-green, often, like the stem and calyx, tinged with purple, glabrous, 

 those of the stem opposite or alternate, faintly decurrent, pinnatifid, the segments 

 roundish or ovate, deeply incised-serrate or lobed, with thickened deflexed mar- 

 gins, areolated beneath as in P. palustris. Flowers crowded into a terminal, ob- 

 tuse, leafy spike, axillary, solitary, erect, on short, triangular, glabrous peduncles, 

 that are loosely surrounded by a prolongation of the outer calycine membrane, 

 which encloses them like a sack, and tapers down to the base of the pedicel, where 

 it unites with the latter. Bracts resembling the leaves, but broader at the base 

 and often tripartite. Calyx J an inch in length, membranous, ovatu-oblong, 

 inflated, especially after flowering, often tinged purplish, venosely reticulated 

 with 5 or 6 plait-like ribs or angles, usually glabrous except about the margins 

 and inner side of the segments, which are clothed with beautiful crystalline hairs, 

 sometimes a little downy, the mouth in 5 unequal irregular lobes, of which the 

 superior one is smallest, narrow and often undivided, the 4 lateral lobes with short 

 reflexed summits, which are mostly 3-cleft or crenate, and resemble the ultimate 

 divisions of the leaves themselves. Corolla quite glabrous, bright rose-red, some- 

 times flesh-coloured or white, twice as long as the calyx ; upper lip narrow, sub- 

 falcate, ascending, strongly compressed, rugosely striate, sharply keeled at top, 

 and having a shallow notch below its very rounded and obtuse apex, produced 

 backwards into a triangular tooth on each side ; lower lip nearly semicircular or 

 fan-shaped, deeply divided into 3 pretty equal rotundato-obovate lobes, which are 

 flat, entire or slightly emarginate and crenulate, often deflected, sometimes cili- 

 ated, uniting behind at 2 crimson-stained prominences running back into the 

 throat, with a deep channel between them ; tube much shorter than the calyx, 

 cylindrical, white, membranous, hardly at all bent, or forming an angle with the 

 white, tubular, scarcely dilated throat, which is much exserted and hairy within 

 behind the palate. Stamens included, nearly equal ; filaments white, slender, 

 slightly hairy at bottom, the inferior pair bearded for some distance below the 

 anthers with white pellucid hairs ; anthers yellow, slightly cohering in pairs, obo- 

 vate, their lobes acute below but not awned, bursting along the centre of their flat 

 inner faces ; pollen yellow. Style very long, weak and slender, a little exserted, 

 glabrous, purplish, slightly enlarged upwards, hooked or bent downwards at some 

 distance from the yellowish, capitate, globose stigma, which appears beautifully 

 striate with rows of short glandulose points ; germen glabrous, seated on and sur- 

 rounded anteriorly by a green, tumid, somewhat, pointed gland. Capsule from 

 3 to 6 lines in length, about as long as the now ventricose calyx, pale browu, 



