180 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Stems numerous, spreading, 2 to 9 inches long, the central stem 
with flowers nearly to the base. Leaves similar to those of P. palus- 
tris, but less narrowed towards the apex, and with the segments 
usually more deeply and acutely lobed. Flowers 1 to l^ inch 
long, pale-rose, without the brownish shade on the upper lip which 
is present in P. palustris. Calyx without hairs, except along the 
margins of the sinus between the segments. Capsule \ inch long, 
about equalling the calyx. Plant dull-green. 
Procumbent Lousewort. 
French, Pediculaire des Forets. German, Wald LausehravA, 
The expressed juice of this plant has been employed as a remedy in some diseases, 
chiefly as an injection in case of ulcers. 
GM^JJ/J.-RHINANTHUS. Linn. 
Calyx urceolate, laterally compressed, much inflated and 
bladdery even during flowering, 4 -toothed. Corolla tubular, 
bilabiate ; upper lip helmet-shaped, much compressed laterally, 
entire, or with 2 small teeth or lobes at the apex ; lower lip 
3-lobed, the lobes sub-erect. Stamens 4, didynamous, placed under 
the upper lip of the corolla ; anthers 2-celled, with the lobes not 
mucronate. Capsule sub-orbicular, much compressed laterally, 
loculicidally dehiscing by 2 valves. Seeds rather few, large, sub- 
orbicular, and much compressed. 
Erect annuals with opposite leaves, and large axillary yellow 
flowers arranged in terminal spikes. 
The derivation of the name of this genus is from piv (rin), the nose, and arQuq 
(anthos), a flower ; in allusion to the form of the blossom, which is spurred. 
SPECIES I.— RHIN AN THUS CRIST A- GALLI. Linn. 
Plates DCCCCXCVIII. DCCCCXCIX. 
Calyx ventricose, compressed, 4-toothed. Corolla with the 
upper lip short, semicircular, compressed, not produced into a 
beak. 
Sub Species I. — Rhinanthus minor. JShrh. 
Plate DCCCCXCVIII. 
Erich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXXXVITI. 
BUlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1288. 
K Crista-galli, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 657. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 245. Hook. & Am. 
Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 310. 
Alectorolophus minor, Reich. Fl. Excurs. p. 358. Reich JU. 1. c. 
A. parvitlurus, Wallroth, Scbed. Crit. p. 318. 
