sckoptiulakiace;tc. 170 
Stem rather stout, 3 inches to 2 feet high, usually much 
branched. Loaves 1 to 4 inches long, finely divided, somewhat 
resembling those of some of the terns, such as Cystopteris. 
Pedicels much shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx at first oblong- 
cylindrical, afterwards inflated and bladdery, stained with dull- 
purple. Corolla 1 inch long, rather more than twice as long as 
the calyx, dull purplish-pink ; the upper lip much compressed, 
and dark brownish-purple at the apex. Capsule longer than the 
calyx, about ^ inch. Plant dull-green, often stained with lurid- 
purple, nearly glabrous, with a few scattered hairs on the stem, 
rachis, and towards the bases of the leaves, the calyx with scattered 
jointed hairs. 
J Upright Lousewort. 
French, PedicuJaire des Marais. German, Sumpf-Lciuselcraut, MoorTconig. 
The species of this genus have not a good reputation among farmers ; and it is 
said that sheep eating any of them are shortly affected with disease, and covered with 
vermin. This may arise from the fact that no animal will eat them when other food 
is attainable; and they grow in marshy ground, and situations very unfavourable to 
the health of animals, and likely to occasion and account for disease without the diet 
so condemned. 
SPECIES II.— PEDICUL AR IS SYLVATICA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXOVII. 
lieick Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXLIX. Fig. 1 ; MDCCCXXVL 
Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 12—18. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1736. 
Stems numerous from the crown of the rootstock, decumbent, 
simple, the central stem reduced to a raceme, the lateral ones 
elongated. Leaves alternate, pinnatipartite, with the segments 
pinnatifid, and the ultimate segments subacute. Flowers in lax 
spikelike racemes. Calyx in fruit oval-ovoid, glabrous, cut into 
5 lobes divided like the segments of the leaves, and except the 
upper one, which is smaller and entire, crimped and ciliated with 
short woolly hairs in the sinus between the lobes. Upper lip 
of corolla not rostrate, with the margin on each side furnished 
with a triangular tooth immediately below the apex, but without 
any tooth below the middle. Capsule oval-ovoid, abruptly rounded 
above at the apex, the beak forming a continuation of the lower 
side. 
On wet heaths and damp pastures and thickets. Common, and 
generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or perennial ? 
Spring to Autumn. 
