312 70. Pedicul. 22. RHINANTHACEAL PI. ex. cor , 
Bogs and damp pastures ; perennial ; June and July. 
P' Root fibrous; stem 18 in. high, angular; leaves spread; 
flowers large, purple ; calyx rather leaflike ; galea slightly 
nicked ; hies of the lip round, fringed. 
2. Pedicularia sylvatica . Wood lousewort. 
Stem much branched at the bottom, simple above ; leaves 
pinnace ; pinnce ovate, acutely toothed ; calyx oblong, in- 
flated, unequally 5-cut, crested; galea blunt, truncated, 
acutely 2-toothed. 
Pedicularis pratensis rubra vulgaris, Raii Syn. 284 *, 3 ; Park. 713. 
Pedicularis, Ger.etn. 1071, 1. 
Pedicularis sylvatica, Lin. S. P. 845. 
Lousewort. Red rattle. Rattle grass. 
Pastures; perennial; June and July. 
Root fusiform ; stem 9 in. high, erect; branches spreading ; 
leaves radical, simple, ovate; flowers large, rose-colour; lip 
of the corolla unequally 3-cut; edge bald. — Juice, or de- 
coction, a good injection for sinuous ulcers : farmers sup- 
pose it renders sheep scabby, overrun with vermin, and 
makes their wool loose. 
VIII. 71. MELAMPYRUM. Theophrastus. Cow-wheat . 
Calyx tubular, 4-cut; corolla tubular, 2-lipped, com- 
pressed; galea arched, edge replicate; lip furrowed, 3-cut; 
stamens 4, didynamous; capsule oblong, obliquely pointed, 
compressed; cells 2-seeded, gibbous, smooth. — Leaves op- 
posite; flowers opposite, spiked, terminal; hractece leaflike, 
edge of the base crested. 
1. Melampyrum cristatum. Crested cow-wheat. 
Spike 4-angular; hractece heartshape, compact, imbricate, 
toothed. 
Melampyrum cristatum, flore aibo et purpureo, Rail Syn. 286 *, 1. 
Melampyrum cristatum, Lin. S. P. 842. 
Crested cow-wheat. 
Woods and cornfields ; annual ; July. 
Stem rough, 4-angular; leaves linear, not cut; spike so- 
litary, many-flowered ; hractece compressed, coloured, pec- 
tinately toothed. 
2. Melampyrum arvense. Corn-field cow-wheat. 
Spike conical, lax; hractece lanceolate, pinnately toothed; 
teeth coloured, setaceous; teeth of the calyx rough. 
