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LXII. SCROPHCLARIACEAS. [Pcdiculdris. 
Groves and thickets (not in meadows, as the name would imply), 
frequent. — j 8 . Mountains. — 7 . Banks of the Wye below Monmouth. 
West of Ireland. 0. 5 — 8 Stem 1 ft. or more high, slender, with 
straggling opposite branches. Flowers large, pale yellow : lower lip 
nearly straight (not deflexed), and the palate is raised so as to close the 
mouth of the tube. 
4. M. sylvaticum L. (small-flowered yellow C.) ; flowersaxil- 
lary secund, leaves in distant pairs, corolla scarcely twice as 
long as the calyx open, the lips equal in length, lower one de- 
flexed, bracteas quite entire. E. B. t. 804. 
Alpine woods. Rare in the north of England. More general, but 
very local in Scotland ; in several parts of Perthshire ; Auchendrane, 
woods on the Doon, Craigs of Ness, Ayrshire; &c. ©. 7. — Stem 
1 ft. high. Bracteas always entire. Cor. deep yellow, very' small, 
quite unlike that of the preceding species. 
6. Pedicuearis Linn. Louse-wort. 
Cal. inflated, 5-cleft, or unequally 2 — 3-lobed, jagged, some- 
what leafy. Upper lip of the cor. laterally compressed, arched ; 
lower one plane, 3-lobed. Ovary with many ovules. Caps. 
oblique, acute, compressed, 2-celled. Seeds angular. — Name 
derived from its supposed property of producing the lousy dis- 
ease in sheep that feed upon it, a malady which rather arises 
from the wet pastures where such plants grow. 
1. P , palustris h. (Marsh L.); stem solitary branched up- 
wards erect, calyx broadly ovate hairy ribbed with crenate 
nearly equal lobes. E. B. t. 399. 
Wet and marshy pastures. © or 7) ? 5 — 9. — Stem 1 ft. high, 
with many lateral branches. Leaves some or all of them opposite, 
pinnate; pinnce ovate, almost pinnatifid. Cal. slightly hairy on the 
outside, nearly glabrous within, not inflated, spotted. Cor. crimson ; 
upper lip with a projecting tooth on each side below the middle, trun- 
cate and with a tooth at the apex on each side ; lower one fringed. 
The two anterior stamens hairy to near the base, hairs moniliform: 
two posterior ones glabrous. 
2. P. sylvdtica L. (Pasture L.) ; stem branched from the 
base and spreading, calyx oblong angular glabrous in 5 unequal 
crenate and almost leafy segments. E. B. t. 400. 
Moist pastures and heaths, common. 74. 4 — 7. — Stems 3 — 5 
inches long. Leaves alternate, lower ones pinnatifid, the rest pin- 
nate with deeply serrate pinnce. Cal. quite glabrous on the out- 
side, woolly within at the mouth, inflated, reticulated with green 
veins. Cor. rose-coloured (or white); upper lip without any pro- 
jecting tooth about its middle, truncate and with a tooth at the apex 
on each side; lower one not fringed. The two anterior stamens have 
many moniliform hairs near the apex : two posterior ones glabrous or 
scabrous. 
