P E D I C U L A R I S fylvatica.
Paflure Loufewort.
D I D T N A M IA Angiofpermia.
G en. C h ar. Cal. (moftly) with 5 clefts. Cap/, pointed,
oblique, with 2 cells. Seeds few, angular, pointed.
Sp e c . C h a r . Stems feveral, fpreading, fimple. Calyx
oblong, angular, fmooth, in five unequal notched
fegments.
Syn. Pedicularis fylvatica. Linn. Sp. PL 845. HudJ.
FI. -An. 271. With. Bot. Arr. 644. Relh. Cant.
241. Sibth. Ox. 194.
P, pratenfis rubra vulgaris. Rail Syn. * 284.
R -ATHER more frequent with us than the laft, inhabiting
moift paftures and heaths in hilly fituations chiefly, and flowering
in June and July. It is remarkable that this is, according
to Mr. Davall, extremely rare in Switzerland, where fo many
magnificent fpecies of Pedicularis, total ftrangers to Britain,
abound.
Root perennial, ftrong and thick. Stems feveral, about 3 or
4 inches high, the central one eredl, the reft procumbent, all angular,
the angles flightly hairy. Leaves alternate, bipinnatifid
and notched as in the laft, but the floral leaves are lefs compound
than the reft. From the crown of the root arifes a circle
of ovate, undivided, recurved, crenate leaves, not to be found
in P. palußris. Flowers axillary, folitary, rofe-coloured, of a
more uniform hue than in the preceding kind, but of an elegant
appearance as they peep from the fide-branches out of the furrounding
fhort grafs. Calyx tubular, but little inflated, fmooth,
with 4 larger and 4 fmaller angles alternately : the margin in 5
fegments, 4 of which are notched, the fifth fmaller, and oppo-
fite to the deepeft fiffure. Corolla like the preceding, but the
lower lip is more equally divided, and not fringed. In the reft
of the frudfification they nearly agree.
We are obliged for many of thefe remarks to the Rev. Mr.
Baker, F. L. S. of Gloucefterlhire, a moft accurate and candid
botanift, whofe communications have often enriched this publication.
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