. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 38. FIGWORT FAMILY. 223 1. Elephantella groenlandica (Retz.) Rydb. Fig. 3854. P. groenlandica Retz. Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 145. 1795- Elephantella groenlandica Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 363. 1900. Perennial, glabrous; stem simple, erect, i°-ii° high. Leaves alternate, lanceolate in outline, acute or acumi- nate, pinnately parted or the lower pinnately div
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 38. FIGWORT FAMILY. 223 1. Elephantella groenlandica (Retz.) Rydb. Fig. 3854. P. groenlandica Retz. Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 145. 1795- Elephantella groenlandica Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 363. 1900. Perennial, glabrous; stem simple, erect, i°-ii° high. Leaves alternate, lanceolate in outline, acute or acumi- nate, pinnately parted or the lower pinnately divided into lanceolate, acute, crenulate or incised segments, the upper sessile, the lower slender-petioled, 2'-6' long; spike 1'-6' long, very dense; calyx 5-toothed, nearly as long as the corolla-tube, the teeth short, acutish; co- rolla red or purple, the galea produced into a filiform beak 6"-8" long, which is decurved against the lower lip and upwardly recurved beyond it; body of the corolla 2V-3" long; capsule obliquely ovate, about 3" long- In wet soil, Labrador, Greenland and Hudson Bay to Athabasca, British Columbia, south in the Rocky Moun- 2 tains to New Mexico, and in the Sierra Nevada to Cali- "§" fornia. Summer. Long-beaked 39. RHINANTHUS L. Sp. PI. 603. 1753. Annual erect mostly branched herbs, with opposite leaves, and yellow blue violet or variegated flowers, in terminal 1-sided leafy-bracted spikes, or solitary in the upper axils. Calyx compressed, 4-toothed, much inflated, membranous and conspicuously veiny in fruit. Corolla very irregular, 2-lipped, the upper lip (galea) compressed, arched, minutely 2-toothed below the entire apex, the lower lip 3-lobed, shorter, the lobes spreading. Stamens 4, didy- namous, ascending under the galea; anthers pilose, the sacs obtuse at the base, transverse, distinct. Capsule orbicular, flat, lociilicidally dehiscent, several-seeded. Seeds nearly orbicu- lar, winged. [Greek, nose-f
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