SCROPHULARIACEAE., Voi. III. 
2. Otophylla densiflora (Benth.) Small. 
Cut-leaved Gerardia. Fig. 3832. 
G. densiflora Benth. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 206. 1835. 
Otophylla densiflora Small, Fl. SE. U.S. 1075. 1903. 
Annual, scabrous and short-hispid; stems stiff, 
erect, branched, or simple, 1°-23° high, very leafy. 
Leaves sessile, ovate in outline, ascending, about 
1’ long, pinnately parted nearly to the midvein 
into 3-7 narrowly linear acute rigid segments less 
than 1” wide; flowers 1’-13’ long, rose purple, 
sessile in the upper axils; calyx 5-cleft, its lobes 
linear, acuminate, ciliate, about as long as the 
tube; corolla glabrous both outside and within; 
filaments glabrous or villous; capsule about ? 
high, shorter than the calyx. 
On dry prairies, Kansas to Texas. Aug.—Oct. 
31. CASTILLEJA Mutis; L. f. Suppl. 
47. 1781. 
Herbs, parasitic on the roots of other plants, with alternate leaves, and red yellow purple 
_or white flowers, in dense leafy-bracted spikes, the bracts often brightly colored and larger 
than the flowers. Calyx tubular, laterally compressed, cleft at the summit on the upper side, 
or also on the lower, the lobes entire or 2-toothed. Corolla very irregular, its tube not longer 
than the calyx, its limb 2-lipped; upper lip (galea) arched, elongated, concave or keeled. 
laterally compressed, entire, enclosing the 4 didynamous stamens; lower lip short, 3-lobed. 
Anther-sacs oblong or linear, unequal, the outer one attached to the filament by its middle, 
the inner one pendulous from its apex. Style filiform; stigma entire or 2-lobed. Capsule 
ovoid or oblong, loculicidally dehiscent, many-seeded. Seeds reticulated. [Named for Cas- 
tillejo, a Spanish botanist.] . 
About 50 species, mostly natives of the New World. In addition to the following, about 30 
others occur in the western parts of North America. Type species: Castilleja fissifolia L. f. 
* Plants villous-pubescent. 
Bracts broad, dilated, lobed, or entire. 
Stem leaves deeply and irregularly cleft into narrow segments. 1. C. coccinea. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, or rarely with a few lobes. 2. C. indivisa. 
Bracts linear or linear-lanceolate, entire. 3. C. minor. 
** Plants glabrous, woolly at the summit, or cinereous-puberulent. 
Glabrous, or tomentose at the summit; leaves lanceolate, mostly entire. 4. C. acuminata. 
Cinereous-puberulent, pale; stem leaves cleft. . 5. C. sessiliflora. 
1. Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng. Scarlet 
Painted-cup. Indian Paint-brush or 
Pink. Prairie-fire. Fig. 3833. 
Bartsia coccinea L. Sp. Pl. 602. 1753. 
Castilleja coccinea Spreng. Syst. 2: 775. 1825. 
Annual or biennial, villous-pubescent; stem 
rather slender, simple, or with few erect branches, 
1°-2° high. Leaves sessile, parallel-veined, the 
basal oblong, obovate, or linear, tufted, mostly 
entire, 1-3’ long, those of the stem deeply 3-5- 
cleft into linear obtusish segments, the bracts 
broader and shorter, 3-5-lobed or cleft, bright 
red or scarlet, conspicuous; flowers sessile, 10’- 
12” long, usually not exceeding the bracts; calyx 
cleft both above and below into 2 dilated entire 
or retuse oblong and obtuse lobes, sometimes 
scarlet; corolla greenish-yellow, its tube shorter 
than the calyx, its upper lip much longer than 
the lower; capsule oblong, acute, 5-6” long. 
In meadows and moist thickets, Maine and Ontario 
to Manitoba, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kansas and 
Texas. Ascends to 4000 ft. in Virginia. Bracts and 
calyx rarely yellow. Red indians. Election-posies. 
Wickawee. Bloody-warrior. Nose-bleed. May-July. 
