PEDICULARIS Stem 3-4 m. high, simple, rather slender, more or less tinged with dark purple, glabrous ; leaves pinnate, glabrous ; segments inch long, lanceolate, doubly serrate ; spike short and dense, 3-6 cm., seldom 8 or 9 cm. long ; bracts ovate, acuminate, about half as long as the flower, puberulent and villous-ciliolate and more or less purple-tinged as well as the calyx ; calyx-lobes subu late ; corolla 1.3 cm. long, purplish except a part of the lip which is yellow ; galea much longer than the lip, lower portion straight, the apex cucullate and the tip not rostrate ; lip 3-cleft, lateral lobes rounded and broad, middle one generally truncate and ciliolate at the margin.
A very near relative of P. bracteata, and perhaps only a variety thereof. The habit and form of the leaves are the same, except that P. Montanensts is a much more slender plant and has a shorter spike. In P. bracteosa the spike is often 2-3 dm. long, the bracts, especially the lower, fully as long as the light yellow corolla, the lateral lobes of lip are smaller.
Type : J. H. Flodman, no. 796, from Little Belt Mountains, nine miles from Barker, August 18, 1896.