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white or yellowish tips; calyx-segments linear; corolla 1.2 to 1.8 cm. 
long, dull white with purple marks, the upper lip plainly longer than the 
crimson teeth of the lower lip.—Marshy ground. 
8. O. purpurascens Benth. Owl's Clover. Simple or sometimes 
much branched, 9.4 to 36 cm. high; leaves parted into many filiform 
divisons which are often brownish-tinged; bracts palmately cleft into 
filiform or narrowly linear lobes, the upper with crimson spatulate tips; 
corolla crimson, 2.4 to 3 cm. long; lower lip white-tipped with yellow and 
purple markings.—Low hills and valleys. 
9. PEDICULARIS L. Lousewort 
Perennial herbs. Flowers in a spike. Calyx 2 to 5-cleft. Corolla 
tubular, strongly 2-lipped. Upper lip flattened and strongly arched at 
apex; lower lip very much shorter than the upper, of 3 small rounded 
lobes. Stamens 4, under the upper lip. Capsule flattened. (Latin pedi- 
culus, a louse; of uncertain application.) 
1. P. densiflora Benth. Indian Warrior. Stems simple and erect, 2 
to 2.8 dm. high, commonly several from the scaly caudex; leaves pin- 
natelv parted or divided, the segments cleft or toothed; bracts linear, 
ciliate or serrate at apex; calyx 5-angled, equally or unequally 5-toothed, 
less than 8 to 10 mm. long; corolla crimson, 2.4 cm. long or more.—Hills 
and mountains. 
OROBANCHACEAE. BROOM-RAPE FAMILY 
Root-parasitic herbs, yellowish or brownish, without green color. 
Leaves reduced to scales. Corolla tubular, 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-lobed, 
the lower 3-lobed. Stamens 4. didynamous. Ovary superior, 1-celled; 
style one, long. Fruit a capsule.—Species about 90, all continents. 
1. OROBANCHE I., Broom-rape 
Calyx 5-cleft. Placentae 4, 2 on each valve of the capsule. (Greek 
orobos. vetch, and anchone, choker.) 
1. O. fasciculate Nutt. Scaly stem 2.4 to 4.8 cm. high, bearing many 
fascicled 1-flowered peduncles; corolla yellow, 2.4 to 3.6 cm. long.— 
Mountain slopes or ridges, parasitic on perennial herbs or small shrubs. 
PLANTAGINACEAE. PLANTAIN FAMILY 
Herbs with a basal cluster of ribbed leaves and naked stems bearing a 
terminal spike or head of regular flowers. Sepals 4 (or 2). Corolla 
4-parted. Stamens 4, protruding. Ovary superior, 2 (or falsely 4)- 
celled. Style 1, slender with long hairy stigma. Fruit a capsule, open¬ 
ing by a lid.—About 200 species, distributed over the w r hole earth. 
1. PLANTAGO L. Plantain 
Corolla small, salver-shaped or rotate, wdthering-persistent. (Latin 
name of the plantain.) 
Perennials; stamens 4 ; leaves ovate or oblanceolate; naturalized species. 
Ovules 2; bracts attenuate into a long point.1. P. lanceolata. 
Ovules 8 to 18 ; bracts ovate, not long-pointed......2. P. major. 
Annuals : leaves linear or oblanceolate ; native species. 
Stamens 4 ; capsule 2-seeded..3. P. erecta. 
Stamens 2; capsule commonly 4-seeded.4. P. bigelovii. 
