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SCROPHULARIACEiE. 



Gerardia. 



3. Gerardia maritima, Raf. Salt-marsh Gerardia. 



Stem smooth ; leaves linear, short, fleshy, somewhat obtuse ; peduncles much shorter than 

 the flower ; calyx turbinate , the teeth very short and rounded. — Raf. in med. repos. 2. p. 361 ; 

 Nutt. gen. 2. p. 46 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 217 ; Torr. compend. p. 241 ; Beck, hot. p. 268 ; 

 Benth. I. c. p. 208. G. purpurea, var. crassif'olia, Pursh, fl. 2. p. 422. 



Annual. Stem 6 — 10 inches high, 4-angled, branching. Leaves 6-8 lines long, convex 

 above, and decidedly fleshy. Flowers few, situated chiefly toward the summit of the stem 

 and branches. Calyx appearing as if truncate ; the teeth often scarcely apparent. Corolla 

 half as large as in the preceding species, pale purple ; the upper lobes conspicuously ciliate, 

 dotted inside. Filaments hairy : anthers oblong ; the lobes acute at the base. Capsule 

 globose. 



Salt marshes on the Island of New-York, and on Long Island. Fl. August - September. 

 Some botanists regard this as a state of G. purpurea, altered by salt water ; but I have not 

 observed any intermediate forms. It is easily distinguished by its fleshy rather obtuse leaves 

 and very short calyx-teeth. 



** Pedicolarioides, Benth. Calyx half b-clcft. Corolla, yellow, tubular-campanulate. Cells of the anthers spurred at 



the base. — Leaves mostly lobed or pinnatifid. 



4. Gerardia Pedicularia, Linn. Bushy Gerardia. 



Stem paniculately branched, slightly pubescent ; leaves smoothish, oblong, pinnatifid- 

 incised ; the lobes oblong, incisely toothed ; flowers rather longer than the pedicels ; segments 

 of the calyx leafy, incisely toothed. — Linn, sp 2. p. 611 ; Michx. ft. 2. p. 19 ; Pursh, fl. 2. 

 p. 424 ; Nutt. gen. 2. p. 48 ; Bigel. ft. Bost. p. 246 ; Torr. compend. p. 242 ; Beck, hot. 

 p. 268 ; Benth I. c. p. 206 ; Da.rlingt. fl. Cest. p. 367. 



Root perennial. Stem 2-4 feet high, much branched from the base upward, nearly terete, 

 purplish, clothed with a minute close pubescence, viscid when young. Leaves 1-3 inches 

 long, pinnatifidly cut into numerous oblong or ovate segments, uncinately toothed. Peduncles 

 5-10 lines long, glandularly pubescent, thickened upward Calyx campanulate ; the segments 

 spreading and deeply toothed or incised. Corolla scarcely half as large as in G.flava, bright 

 yellow, very caducous ; the segments broad and rounded. Filaments slightly hairy : anther- 

 lobes with a subutate horn at the base. Capsule globose-ovoid, with a short acumination. 



Dry woods and rocky hill-sides ; rather common throughout the State. Fl. August. Fr. 

 October. This species is replaced at the South by G. pectinata, Torr. (G. Pedicularia, Ell. ; 

 G. Pedicularia, var. pectinata, Nutt.). 



