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the lower round and 3-crenulate or entire, the galea narrow. 

 Stamens 4 and didynarnous, or sometimes the shorter pair want- 

 ing. Anther-cells either pilose-ciliate or with the base and apex 

 minutely bearded. Style usually with an uncinately inflexed 

 apex, thickened under the entire stigma. Ovules several, ascend- 

 ing. Capsule compressed, loculicidal. Seeds few. 



A. ramosa Greene Pitt, ii, 180. Cordylanihus ramosus Xutt. Canes- 

 cent with a miuute scabrous pubescence: stem erect. 6-10 inches high, bran- 

 ching: leaves pinnately 3-5 -parted with filiform segments: tbe floral ones 

 with 5-7 equal filiform lobes, scarcely dilated at the apex: bracts entire or 

 2-3-lobed: flowers capitate: calyx leaves 5-7 lines long, ovate or oblong, ob- 

 tuse, 4-6-nerved, the upper one emarginate: corolla yellow, 6-8 /ines long: 

 stamens 4; filaments more or less villous; anthers 2-celled: capsule 4-5 lines 

 long, linear-oblong, 20-seeded. Eastern Oregon to Nevada and Wyoming. 



A. capitata Greene 1. c. Cordylanihus capitatus Xutt. Pilose-pubes- 

 cent: stem erect, 6-20 inches high, branched above: lower leaves and those of 

 the branches linear, one to two inches long, mostly entire, upper ones three- 

 Jobed, the lobes linear or filliform: floral leaves three-cleft or subpinnatifid: 

 flowers in small capitate fascicles, sessile, usually with a single obtuse bract: 

 calyx two-leaved, the lower leaf three to five-nerved, the upper two -nerved 

 and two-toothed at the apex: corolla six to eight lines long, purplish, but 

 little exceeding the calyx: stamens two; filaments flattened, almost glabrous: 

 anthers one-celled: capsule oblong, eight-seeded: seeds minutely favose. In 

 open woods, eastern Washington to Nevada and Idaho, 



A. viscida. Minutely pilose and copiously viscid -glandular: stem 

 erect, one to three feet high, divaricately much branched: leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate, one to three inches long, mostly entire, those subtending the branches 

 w r ith a pair of linear lobes near the base; floral leaves deeply three-lobed, the 

 lobes linear- spatulate, not callous-tipped: flowers in small fascicles or solitary: 

 calyx two-leaved, nearly an inch long, the lower leaf linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 five-nerved, the upper linear-lanceolate, acuminate, faintly five-nerved: corolla 

 purplish, barely equalling the calyx: antheriferous stamens two, with vill- 

 ous filaments and two-celled anthers: sterile filaments conspicuous: fruit not 

 seen. On dry slopes, eastern base of the Coast Mountains near Waldo, 

 southern Oregon. 



22 PEDICULARIS L. Sp. 603. 



Herbs with alternate or opposite leaves and yellow, purple, red or 

 white flowers in terminal spikes or racemes. Calyx tubular, cleft 

 on the lower side or sometimes also on the upper side, or 2-5- 

 toothed. Corolla strongly bilabiate, the tube cylindric; the galea 

 laterally compressed, concave or conduplicate, sometimes beaked ; 

 lower lip erect or ascending, 3-lobed, the lobes spreading or re- 

 flexed, the middle one smallest. Stamens 4, didynarnous, ascend- 

 ing within the upper lip of the corolla : anthers transverse, ap- 

 proximate in pairs, their cells equal, parallel, obtuse or rarely, 

 mucronate at base. Capsule compressed, oblique or curved, 

 beaked, many-seeded loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds reticulated 

 pitted, striate or ribbed. 



* Cauline leaves and flowers verticillate or nearly so, 



P. Menziesii Benth. in DC. Prodr. x, 563. Nearly glabrous: stems 



