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* Calyx monophyllous ; the anterior division wanting : flowers strictly sessile in 



the axil of a clasping bract or leaf. 

 2. C. Kingii, Watson. A foot or less high, diffusely branched, viscid- 

 pubescent or villous : leaves 1 or 2 inches long, mostly 3 to 5-parted into lin- 

 ear-filiform divisions : flowers loosely glomerate or somewhat scattered at the 

 summit of the slender branchlets : corolla less than an inch long, purplish. — 

 Bot. King Exped. 233. S. W. Colorado to Utah and Nevada. 



15. PEDICULARIS, Tourn. Lousewoet. 



Leaves commonly pinnately cleft or dissected, mainly alternate : flowers in 

 a terminal bracteate spike, rarely in a raceme or scattered. 



* Galea produced into a filiform porrect or soon upturned beak ; throat with a 



tooth on each side ; tube of corolla nearly included in the 5-toothed calyx : 

 leaves lanceolate in outline, pinnately parted ; the divisions acutely serrate or 

 pinnatifid: spike dense and many-flowered, naked: corolla dull rose-red or 

 crimson-purple. 



1. P. Grcenlandica, Ketz. Glabrous: spike 1 to 6 inches long: calyx- 

 teeth short : beak of the galea half-inch or more long, twice the length of the 

 rest of the corolla, decurved on the accumbent lower lip. — Wet ground, from 

 New Mexico to British Columbia and Hudson Bay. 



* * Galea of the short white corolla produced into a slender elongated-subulate 



circmate-incurmd beak, nearly reaching the apex of the broad lower lip: calyx 

 cleft in front: whole plant glabrous. 



2. P. raeemosa, Dougl. A foot or so high, simple or sometimes branch- 

 ing, leafy to the top : leaves lanceolate, undivided, minutely and doubly crenu- 

 late, 2 to 4 inches long : flowers short-pedicelled, in a short leafy raceme or 

 spike, or the lower in remote axils and uppermost with bracts hardly surpass- 

 ing the 2-toothed calyx: slender beak of the galea hamate-deflexed. — From 

 Colorado and Utah to California and British Columbia. 



* * * Galea falcate, and with a conical or thick-subulate beak, edentulate: leaves 



simply pinnatifid : flowers half-inch long. 



3. P. Parryi, Gray. Glabrous, or the inflorescence slightly pubescent : 

 stem a span or two high, very leafy at base : leaves linear-lanceolate in outline, 

 deeply pinnately parted ; the divisions linear-lanceolate, closely callous- serrate ; 

 uppermost reduced to linear bracts : spike dense, 1 J to 4 inches long : corolla 

 ochroleucous or more yellow; galea strongly falcate, with decurved beak, of 

 about the length of the width of the galea. — Am. Jour. Sci. n. xxxih. 250. 

 In the mountains from Colorado and Utah to Wyoming and Montana. 



* # * * Galea falcate, arcuate, or with the apex more or less incurved, or ante- 



riorly curvilinear; the beak very short and thick or commonly none: stems 



simple, leafy. 

 - Not alpine: leaves pinnatifid : spike short and dense : cucullate summit of the 



galea incurved. 

 4 P Canadensis, L. Hirsute-pubescent and glabrate, a span to a foot 

 hieh- leaves oblong-lanceolate, rather deeply pinnatifid ; lobes short-oblong, 

 obtuse, mcisely and the larger doubly dentate : spike leafy bracteate: corolla 



