An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . elj divided, the segments ovate or ob-long, incised; flowers several in a capitate cluster at the endof the scape, I-ii long; calyx 5-cleft, the lobes foliaceous,incised or crenate;.corolla described as white; galea scarcelybroadened above, slightly curved, very obtuse, twice as longas the lower lip; capsule oblong, a little longer than the calyx,beaked on the outer side near
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . elj divided, the segments ovate or ob-long, incised; flowers several in a capitate cluster at the endof the scape, I-ii long; calyx 5-cleft, the lobes foliaceous,incised or crenate;.corolla described as white; galea scarcelybroadened above, slightly curved, very obtuse, twice as longas the lower lip; capsule oblong, a little longer than the calyx,beaked on the outer side near the summit. Arctic America; Hudson Bay to Alaska. Summer. 38. ELEPHANTELLA Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Card, i: 362. 1900. Herbs similar to Pedicularis in habit. Leaves pinnately parted or pinnately erect. Calyx 2-lipped, often campanulate. Corolla very strongly 2-lipped, the tubeshort, the upper lip (galea) produced into an elongated slender beak which is soon turnedupward, the lower lip very broad. [Greek, little elephant, referring to the resemblance ofthe galea of the corolla to an elephants head.] Two or three species of northern regions. Type species : Elephantella groenlandica (Retz.) Genus 38. FIGWORT FAMILY. 223 I. Elephantella groenlandica (Retz.) Rydb. Fig- 3854- P. groenlandica Retz. Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 145. groenlandica Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. i:363. 1900. Perennial, glabrous; stem simple, erect, i°-ii° alternate, lanceolate in outline, acute or acumi-nate, pinnately parted or the lower pinnately dividedinto lanceolate, acute, crenulate or incised segments,the upper sessile, the lower slender-petioled, 2-6 long;spike i-6 long, very dense; calyx 5-toothed, nearly aslong as the corolla-tube, the teeth short, acutish; co-rolla red or purple, the galea produced into a filiformbeak 6-8 long, which is decurved against the lowerlip and upwardly recurved beyond it; body of thecorolla 2i-3 long; capsule obliquely ova
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