DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. Pedicularis. 731 
L. squama'ria. Stem undivided: flowers pendulous: lower-lip trifid. 
Dicks. IT. S.—E. Bot. 50— FI. Dan. 136— Riv. Mon. 89.2, Squamaria — Barr. 
80 —II. Ox. xii. 16. 14— Matth. 96i—Ger. 1387 . 1 —J. B. iii. 783. 2— 
Blackw. 430 —Dod. 553. I—Park. 1363. 4 —Clus. ii. 120. 1— Ger. Em ; 
1585. 1— H. Ox. xii. 16. 11. 
Root beaded (with white, fleshy, imbricating scales. E.) Root-leaves 
none. Stem-leaves membranous, coloured. Branches none. Blossom, 
lower lip white. Linn. (Smith considers the real root to be fibrous and 
parasitical, and what is usually described as such, a subterraneous por¬ 
tion of stem. Flowering stem rising at right angles from the lower hori¬ 
zontal portion. Plants in singularity of habit, approaching Orohanche . 
35.) Stem naked, except sometimes one or two oval scales. Flowers 
in a spike, from one side of the stem, in a double (or treble, E.) row. 
Floral-leaves roundish-oval, large, reddish, one at the base of each fruit- 
stalk, forming a double line opposite to the flowers. Calyx gibbous, 
segments equal, bluntish. Blossom , upper lip rather short, lopped. 
Woodw. Blossom pale purple except the lower lip. ( Stem six to twelve 
inches high, many (sometimes thirty to forty) flowered, brittle, upright, 
fleshy, purplish. Summit notched. Anthers protruding, hairy. E.) 
Greater Tooth-wort.* (In woods and shady places, impervious to the- 
sun, which may partly account for its palid, sickly aspect. E.) Maid¬ 
stone, Kent. Ray. Harefield, (Middlesex, in a shady lane leading to the 
river. Rlackstone. Thickets below Conzick-Scar, near Kendal. Stud- 
ley, Mackershaw, and other woods, Yorkshire. Mr. Brunton. E.) Not 
invariably confined to shady woods, but its choice of situation is deter¬ 
mined by other causes; sometimes it is found in very light dry soil, and 
so entangled with the roots of some neighbouring tree, especially of 
Hazel, that I have reason to believe it parasitical. Mr. Gough. At the 
roots of trees in a wood near Gainsford, Durham. Mr. Robson. Pleasly 
Park, Derbyshire. Mr. Hallows. At the roots of old trees in Smallcomb 
wood ; and in the shady walks of Prior Park, near Bath. Mr. Sole. In 
Leigh wood, near Bristol. Mr. Dyer. Benthal Edge, Coalbrook Dale ; 
and shrubbery at Bitterley Court, near Ludlow. Dr. Evans, in Bot. 
Guide. No longer to be found at Garreg wen near Garn, (as stated in 
Bot. Guide,) the spot on which it grew having been washed away by 
floods. Mr. Griffith. Beech wood beyond Custom Scrubs, Bisley, near 
Painswick. Mr. Oade Roberts. In Cocken woods, Durham. Sheepley 
wood on Tees, and Lumlay wood. Mr. Winch. In St. Catherine’s wood, 
Dublin. Wade. Arniston woods, abundant. Mr. G. Don. Grev. Edin. 
In Church-litten-coppice, under some hazels, near the foot-bridge, in 
Trimming’s garden hedge, and on the dry wall opposite Grange-yard, 
Selborne. White’s Nat. Hist. E.)f P. April—May. 
PEDICULA'RIS.J Blossom ringent, upper lip compressed: 
Caps, two-celled : Seeds few, angular, pointed. E.) 
P. palus'this. Stem solitary, branched : calyx crested with callous 
dots : lip of the blossom oblique. 
* (This trivial from the resemblance of the scaly roots to human teeth. E.) 
f (A fact recorded by Mr. J. Murray, in Mag. Nat. Hist, that a plant of this kind, 
transplanted from its original site into a garden, there continued to flourish, has been 
supposed to militate agaiust the idea of its being parasitic ; but is, perhaps, not absolutely 
conclusive. E.) 
| .(From pcdicuhis , a louse; from its imaginary property of infesting sheep with such 
vermin. E.) 
