
BROOM-RAPE FAMILY. Orobanchaceae. 
This grows in dry rocky soil at high 
Pn Shs sg altitudes, forming a low clump of pretty 
ee bronze-colored leaves, cut into many 
Magenta and small crinkled lobes, and giving the effect 
white of stiff little ferns, with a short spike of 
Spams oddly pretty flowers, each over an inch 
Utah, Ariz., : 3 d 
New Méx: long, with a purplish, hairy calyx and a 
corolla with a white tube and magenta 
lips, the anthers projecting like sharp little teeth from 
under the arching upper lip. P. semibarbdia, growing in 
dry woods in Yosemite, forms a rosette of crinkled bronze 
foliage, with short spikes of yellow flowers. 
A handsome plant, with quaint flowers. 
Elephants’ Heads; The smooth, slender, purplish stem is a 
Butterfiy-tongue : 
foot or more tall, with a few alternate 
Pediculdris ‘ 
Groenléndica leaves, and springs from a cluster of 
Pink smooth, fern-like foliage, much like that of 
——- P. ornithorhyncha, often tinged with bronze, 
West, etc. 
and bears a long, crowded spike of many 
flowers. They are slightly fragrant, about three-quarters 
of an inch long, with purplish calyxes and deep pink or 
reddish corollas, which look absurdly like little elephants’ 
heads. This grows in the mountains, across the continent. 
BROOM-RAPE FAMILY. Orobanchaceae. 
A rather small family, resembling Scrophulariacee, 
widely distributed; parasitic herbs, without green foliage, 
with alternate scales instead of leaves; flowers perfect, 
irregular; calyx five-cleft, or split on one or both sides; 
corolla two-lipped; stamens four, in pairs, with slender 
filaments, on the corolla-tube (sometimes also the rudi- 
ment of a fifth stamen); ovary superior, style slender, 
stigma disk-like, with two or four lobes; fruit a capsule. 
There are several kinds of Thalesia. 
A queer little thing, but pretty and 
EY 2% delicate, with a very short stem, mostly 
Thalesia uniflora underground, bearing one or more slender, 
(Orobanche) slightly hairy, dull yellow, scaly flower- 
Purplish stems from three to eight inches tall, each 
se Ew) with a single flower, less than an inch long, 
one” with a dull yellow, hairy calyx, and a 
hairy, lilac corolla, tinged with dull 
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