WILD FLOWERS OF NKW YORK 25 1 



Fern-leaved False Foxglove; Fever-flower 



Aureolaria pedicularia (Linnaeus) Rafinesque 



{Gerard in pedicularia Linnaeus) 



Plate 201 



Stems rather slender and much branched, leafy, erect or spreading- 

 ascending, i to 4 feet high, glandular-pubescent, viscid and somewhat 

 hairy. Leaves sessile or the lower ones petioled, pinnately divided, ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate in outline, 1 to 3 inches long, the lobes cut-toothed. 

 Flowers on short stalks from the upper axils of the reduced leaves of the 

 stems and branches. Calyx bell-shaped, with five oblong, toothed lobes, 

 becoming one-third of an inch long in fruit. Corolla slightly irregular, 

 funnelform, 1 to \\ inches long, hairy without, about 1 inch broad, with 

 five spreading, rounded lobes, dull yellow or slightly brownish yellow in 

 color. Stamens four, not projecting from the flower. Fruit an oblong, 

 hairy capsule about one-half of an inch long. 



In dry woods and thickets, Maine to Ontario and Minnesota, south 



to Florida and Missouri. Flowering in late summer, from the latter part 



of July to September. 



Smooth False Foxglove 



Aureolaria glauca (Eddy) Rafinesque 



(Gerardia quercifolia Pursh; Gerardia virginica Britton, Sterns & Poggen- 

 berg; Gray's manual, ed. 7, 730, 1908. Gerardia glauca Eddy, Med. 

 Repos. N. Y. Rex 2, v. 126. 1808) 



Plate 202 



Stems rather stout, stiff, smooth and often purplish with a whitish or 

 glaucous bloom, usually branched, 2 to 5 feet high from a perennial root. 

 Leaves usually petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate in outline, the lower 

 one to two-pinnatifid, 4 to 6 inches long, the upper ones pinnatifid or deeply 

 incised, the lobes lanceolate or oblong, pointed, entire or toothed, often 

 nearly at right angles to the mid vein. Fruiting stalks longer than the 

 calyx; calyx lobes five, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, pointed, entire, about 

 equaling the tube in length. Corolla yellow, i| to 2 inches long, smooth 



