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Pedicularis verticillata Linn. Sp. PI. p. 608; Willd. 

 Sp. PI. III. p. 214-, excl. var. [i. ; Pers. Syn. PI. II. p. 153, excl. 

 var. p. ; Gaertn. Fruct. I. p. 246, tab. 53, fig. 5 ; Spreng. Syst. 

 Veg. II. p. 781 ; Cham, et Schlecht. in Linnaea, II. p. 582 ; 

 Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 128 ; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. II. 

 p. 107 ; Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p. 361 ; Nyman, Syl. Fl. Eur. 

 p. 129 ; Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. III. p. 270 ; Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. X. p. 563 ; Walp. Rep. III. p. 411 ; Regel et Til. Fl. 

 Ajan. p. 114 ; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. 3, p. 471 ; Fr. 

 Schm. Reis. im Amur. u. Ins. Sachal. p. 58 ; A. Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. N. Am. II. 1, p. 305 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. p. 309 ; 

 Maxim, in Mel. Biol. X. p. 95, excl. varr., et XII. p. 891, tab. 

 4, fig. 123 ; Herd. PI. Radd. IV. 4, p. 81 ; Forbes et Hemsl. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 219 ; Ito, Hakubutsukwaishi, I. 

 p. 74. 



Pedicularis Stevenii Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II. p. 427 ; 

 Less, in Linnaea, IX. p. 154, 157. 



Pedicularis amcena Yabe, Enum. PI. Alp. Mont. Shirouma 

 in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVII. (1903) p. 25; Miyoshi et Makino, 

 Alp. PI. Jap. I. p. 31, tab. 16, fig. 92, non Adams. 



Biennial?, low, 4— 17cm. high, simple or caespitose; root per- 

 pendicular, conical or subfusiform-conical, branched towards the 

 end, nigrescent ; neck scaly ; scales deltoid to subulate, acute 

 or acutish, entire, thickly membranaceous, erect, blackish. 

 Stem erect in the central one, but ascendingly erect in the sur- 

 rounded ones which are the branches divided at the base, 1—8, 

 terete-subtetragonous, strict, 4- or rarely 5-serial-pilose with 

 retrorsely incurved subadpressed several-celled white hairs, the 

 middle internodes long. Leaves not manj% 4—3- or rarely 5- 

 verticillate, erect-patent, shortly petioled, but long-petiolate in 

 the basal ones, deeply pinnatiparted with patent or erect-patent 

 pinnae and narrow or broad sinuses (the bottom obtuse), 

 oblong, narrowly oblong, ovato-elliptical, or ovato-lanceolate, 

 obtuse but with an acute tip at the apex, thinlj r pilose with 

 patent several-celled white hairs on both surfaces, thickish in 

 texture, green, about 8-30 mm. long, 4-15 mm. broad ; pinnae 

 simply or subduplicately pinnatifid-dentate with acute deltoid 



