9.  This beautiful mountain flower, at present, by the good grace of botanists, known as Pedicularis, from a disease which it is supposed to give to sheep, is distinguished from all other Draconidae by its beautifully divided leaves:  while the flower itself, like, as aforesaid, thyme in the three lower petals, rises in the upper one quite upright, and terminates in the narrow and peculiar hood from which I have named it ‘Monacha.’

10.  Two deeper crimson spots with white centres animate the colour of the lower petals in our mountain kind—–­mountain or morass;—­it is vilely drawn in S. 997 under the name of Sylvatica, translated ‘Procumbent’!  As it is neither a wood flower nor a procumbent one,[33] and as its rosy colour is rare among morass flowers, I shall call it simply Monacha Rosea.

I have not the smallest notion of the meaning of the following sentence in S.:—­“Upper lip of corolla not rostrate, with the margin on each side furnished with a triangular tooth immediately below the apex, but without any tooth below the middle.”  Why, or when, a lip is rostrate, or has any ‘tooth below the middle,’ I do not know; but the upper petal of the corolla is here a very close gathered hood, with the style emergent downwards, and the stamens all hidden and close set within.

In this action of the upper petal, and curve of the style, the flower resembles the Labiates,[34] and is the proper link between them and the Draconidae.  The capsule is said by S. to be oval-ovoid.  As eggs always are oval, I don’t feel farther informed by the epithet.  The capsule and seed both are of entirely indescribable shapes, with any number of sides—­very foxglove-like, and inordinately large.  The seeds of the entire family are ’ovoid-subtrigonous.’—­S.

11.  I find only two species given as British by S., namely, Sylvatica and Palustris; but I take first for the Regina, the beautiful Arctic species D. 1105, Flora Suecica, 555.  Rose-coloured in the stem, pale pink in the flowers (corollae pallide incarnatae), the calices furry against the cold, whence the present ugly name, Hirsuta.  Only on the highest crests of the Lapland Alps.

(2) Rosea, D. 225, there called Sylvatica, as by S., presumably because “in pascuis subhumidis non rarae.”  Beautifully drawn, but, as I have described it, vigorously erect, and with no decumbency whatever in any part of it.  Root branched, and enormous in proportion to plant, and I fancy therefore must be good for something if one knew it.  But Gerarde, who calls the plant Red Rattle, (it having indeed much in common with the Yellow Rattle), says, “It groweth in moist and moorish meadows; the herbe is not only unprofitable, but likewise hurtful, and an infirmity of the meadows.”

(3) Palustris, D. 2055, S. 996—­scarcely any likeness between the plates.  “Everywhere in the meadows,” according to D. I leave the English name, Marsh Monacha, much doubting its being more marshy than others.