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about ten inches high, simple: leaves deeply pinnatifld or pinuately pai'ted 

 into oblong incisely toothed divisions: lower whorls of the spike rather dis- 

 tant: calyx inflated-globose its teeth short, ciliate, somewhat crested: tube of 

 the corolla exceeding the calyx: galea straightish, slightly if at all beaked, 

 shorter than the depending lower lip. Northwest Coast Menzies. 



* * Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite. 



P. Groeulandica Betz Fl. Scand. ed. 2, 145. Glabrous perennial: 

 stems simple, erect, twelve to eighteen inches high: leaves alturaate, lanceo- 

 late in outline, acute or acuminate, pinnately parted or the lower pinnately 

 divided into lanceolate acute crenulate or incised segihents, the lower slender- 

 petioled, the tipper sessile, two to six inches long: Spikes one to six inches 

 long, very dense: calyx Ave toothed, nearly aslongas the tube of the corolla, 

 the teeth short, aoutish: corolla red or purple, the galea produced into a 

 filiform beak 6-8 lines long, which is decumbent upon the lower lip and 

 upwardly recurved beyond it: capsule obliquely ovate, about three lines long. 

 In mountain marshes, Alaska to California and across the Continent, 



P. contorta Benth. in Hook. Fl. ii, 108, Glabrous perennial: stems 

 eight to twelve inches high,' simple, erect: leaves mostly radical and petioled, 

 two to three inches long, pinnately parted into linear enthe or incisely 

 serrate alternate lobes, the upper similar but smaller and sessile: spikes 

 cylindrical, two to four inches long, many-flower.ed: calyx four to five lines' 

 long, cleft to below the middle into two triangular acute lobes which are 

 sharply two-toothed at the apex: corolla yellow or whitish, the galea produc- 

 ed into a slender elongated-subulate circinate incurved beak equalling or 

 longer than the broad lower lip: capsule six lines long, exceeding the csdyx, 

 ovoid, obliquely acute: seeds oblong, callus apiculate at both ends. In 

 open meadows in the Cascade Mountains to Idaho. 



P. raceiiiosa Dougl, Hook, PI. ii, 108. Glabrous perennial: stems 

 rather slender, one to two feet high, simple, or sometimes branched, leafy to 

 the top: leaves all cauline, one to two inches long, lanceolate, undivided, 

 finely serrulate or incisely crenate and the crenations finely crenulate, the 

 teeth mostly white-tipped, all petioled: flowers rather few, in a short leafy 

 raceme: calyx somewhat oblique, deeper cleft before than behind, the lobes 

 abruptly acuminate, three lines long: corolla dull white or yellowish, six to 

 eight lines lonu;, the galea produced into a slender elongated-subulate 

 circinate incurved bea£ nearly as long as the broad lower lip, hamate- 

 deflexed. 8ubalpine regions, Brit. Columbia to California and the Kocky 

 Mountains. 



1'. Howellii Gray Proc. Am. Acad, xx, 107. Glabrous perennial: stem 

 stout, six to eighteen inches high, naked, or vvith some small scales below, 

 above densely leafy up to the short and dense cylindraceous spike: leaves all 

 cauline, one to two inches long, oblong, some simple and undulate- serrate or 

 entire on margined petioles, others pinnately three to seven-parted or upper 

 lobes more confluent : bracts foliaceous, ovate, mostly acuminate, more or 

 less lanate-ciliate, shorter than the flowers: calyx campanulate, sparsely 

 villous, five-toothed, the teeth ovate, neaily entire, the posterior and lateral 

 more connate: corolla white or yellowish, with jexserted tube and a rather 

 long much incurved somewhat rose -colored galea much longei' than and 

 smTounding the short obscm'ely threelobed lower lip. On damp shady 

 slopes, top of the Siskiyou Mountains near Waldo Oregon. 



P. ornlthorhyncha Benth. in Hook. 1. c. Smooth perennial : stems 

 scapiform, or sometimes bearing a pair of leaves, 6-8 inches high, simple: 

 leaves _ pinnately parted and the oblong or lanceolate divisions incisely 

 pinnatifid, the lobes small, dentate : spikes interrupted: calyx ovate-inflated, 



