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Rhinanthus kyroUae Chabert. Stems erect, 30-60 cm. high, simple or 

 more commonly with ascending branches; leaves lanceolate, sessile, 2-5 cm. 

 long, serrate, minutely scabrous; bracts pale green, ovate-lanceolate, with 

 slender acuminate teeth; calyx 1.5 cm. long; corolla pale yellow. In gravelly 

 soil, Spokane County, Suksdorf; Palouse City, Henderson; Troy, Idaho, Piper. . 



342. PEDICULARIS. Lousewort. 



Perennial herbs; leaves toothed or pinnatifid, the floral bract - 

 like; flowers rather large, in a spike ; calyx 2-5-toothed, irregular; 

 corolla strongly 2-lipped, the upper lip {galea) arched, laterally 

 compressed, sometimes beaked; the lower 3-lobed; stamens 4, 

 enclosed by the upper lip; anthers equally 2-celled; capsule 

 several-seeded. 



Leaves lanceolate, doubly crenulate. P. racemosa. 

 Leaves pinnately lobed or parted. 



Corolla yellow, with a slender inrolled beak. P. conlorla. 



Corolla whitish, with a broad hood-like beak. P. bracleosa. 



Pedicularis racemosa Dougl. Ascending or spreading, glabrous throughout 

 or puberulent above, the stems simple or somewhat branched, 30-40 cm. 

 long; leaves alternate, lanceolate, acute or obtuse, doubly crenulate. 5-10 

 cm. long; petioles short; flowers short-pedicelled, in racemes, with gradually 

 reduced leaves or bracts; calyx 2-cleft in front, 2-toothed behind; corolla white 

 or reddish, the galea much incurved, nearly reaching the apex of the broad 

 lip. In open woods in the mountains. 



Pedicularis contorta Dougl. Glabrous; stems simple, erect, 20-30 cm. 

 high; basal leaves petioled,5-8 cm. long, pinnately parted into linear toothed 

 segments; cauline leaves similar, sessile; spikes densely many-flowered, 5-10 

 cm. long; calyx cleft before and behind, the lobes 2-toothed; corolla pale 

 yellow, the galea slender, elongate and somewhat circinate, about as long as 

 the lower lip. In alpine meadows, Blue Mountains. 



Pedicularis bracteosa Benth. Glabrous below, sparsely pubescent above; 

 stem stout, erect, 30-100 cm. high, with tuber-like roots; leaves ovate or 

 oblong in outline, 5-12 cm. long, the basal petioled, the cauline nearly sessile, 

 pinnately parted or divided into narrow lanceolate or linear, serrate or incised 

 divisions, 1-5 cm. long; inflorescence an erect dense spike, 10-50 cm. long; 

 bracts ovate, acuminate, entire or nearly so, exceeded by the flowers; calyx 

 5-cleft, with narrow triangular lobes; corolla whitish, 2 cm. long, galea longer 

 than the lip, curved, hooded at the apex, the orifice entire. In moist woods in 

 the mountains. 



343. CASTILLEJA. Painted Cup, Indian Pink, or Indian Paint Brush. 



Perennial herbs, sometimes woody at the base; leaves alter- 

 nate, entire or cleft into linear lobes; the floral ones usually 

 dilated, colored and more showy than the yellow, red or whitish 

 spiked flowers; calyx tubular, flattened, 2- or 4-lobed; corolla- 

 tube included,; upper lip {galea) much longer than the lower, 

 narrow, arched and keeled, enclosing the 4 unequal stamens; 

 lower lip short, 3-lobed; anthers unequally 2-celled; capsule 

 many-seeded. 



