FIGWORT FAMILY 221 
VU. CASTILLEJA Mutis. 
Herbs parasitic on the roots of other plants. Leaves alter- 
nate ; the floral ones usually colored at the tip and more showy 
than the flowers. Flowers yellow or purplish in terminal leafy 
spikes. Calyx tubular, flattened, 2-4-cleft. Corolla tube in- 
cluded within the calyx; upper lip of the corolla very long, 
linear, arched, and inclosing the stamens, 2 of which are long 
and 2 short. Ovary many-ovuled. 
1. C. coccinea Sprengel. Scarter Parntep Cup, Parxt Brvusu, 
Inpian Pink, Prairre Fire, Wickaker. <A hairy, simple-stemmed 
herb, annual or biennial. Root leaves clustered, obovate or oblong; 
stem leaves cut; floral leaves 3-5-cleft and bright scarlet (occasion- 
ally yellow) toward the tips, as though dipped in a scarlet dye. Calyx 
nearly as long as the pale yellow corolla, 2-cleft. The spikes are often 
very broad, making this one of the most conspicuous of our native 
flowers. Damp, sandy ground, or on bluffs near streams; sometimes 
in marshes. 
2. C. sessiliflora Pursh. Downy Partntrep Cup. Perennial; stem 
leafy, 6-15 in. high, covered with ash-colored down. Lowest leaves 
linear and entire, upper ones usually deeply cleft into narrow seg- 
ments; floral leaves green, like the upper stem leaves. Calyx lobes 
more deeply cleft on the lower than on the upper side, linear-lanceo- 
late. Corolla yellowish, nearly 2 in. long; upper lip about twice the 
length of the lower one. On prairies W. and S.W. ~ 
VIN. PEDICULARIS L. 
Perennial herbs, with the lower leaves pinnately cut and 
the floral ones reduced to bracts. Flowers spiked. Corolla 
markedly 2-lipped; the upper hp much flattened laterally and 
arched, the lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, beneath 
the upper lip. Capsule 2-celled, tipped with an abrupt point, 
several-seeded. 
1. P. canadensis L. Common Lovsewort. Hairy, with clustered 
simple stems, 1 ft. high or less. Leaves petioled, the lowermost ones 
pinnately parted, the others somewhat pinnately cut. Spike short, 
closely flowered, and leafy-bracted. Calyx split down the front. 
Corolla greenish-yellow and purplish. with its upper lip hood-like, 
curved under, and with 2 awl-like teeth near the end. Capsule flat, 
broadly sword-shaped. Knolls and openings among thickets. 
