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PENTSTEMON* deustum. 



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Pa?*ched Pentstemon. 



DTDVNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. or d, ScuornuLARiNK^-, 



PENTSTEMON. — Supn), vol ]3. fol. 1121. 



P. deustum; caule subsimplici ascendente glabro, foliis inciso-serratis : radi- 

 calibus ovato-oblongis, proximis spatulatis, caulinis oblongis acutis ses- 

 silibus, supremis subintegris, calycibus glabris, limbi plani laciniis retusis 



supremis minoribus, 

 P. deustum. Douglas in herb. Hort. Soc. 



Caulis ascendenSj pedalisy v. sesquipedalis^ glaber. Folia glabra^ radi- 

 calia, longe petiolata, ovata, inferiora spatulata^ obtusa; caulina ohlonya^ 

 sessiliay subamplexicatdia, omnia grosse et ineequaliter inciso-serrata. Flores 

 arete paniculatiy ochroleuci, minores, calycibus corollisque glabris. 



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Native of North-west America, where it was found by 

 Mr. Douglas on scorched, rocky plains, in the interior. 



Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society in September 1829. 



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A hardy perennial, increased readily by division, and 

 growing well in any common garden soil : it is very near 

 P. confertum and attenuatum, from both of which it differs 

 in its coarsely jagged leaves ; which, however, exhibit that 

 character more in the wild specimens than in the cultivated 

 plant. 



Stem ascending, a foot or a foot and a half high, smooth. 

 Leaves smooth, the radical ones on lonff stalks, ovate, the 





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* See fol. lk5. 



