breadth of corolla, and that of the cultivated specimens of 
G. Bigelovii is larger than in native ones. 
G. Bigelovii is a native of the Rocky Mountains from 
Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona, in the latter 
country ascending to 9000 feet. The plants from which 
our figure was made were raised from seed sent by Dr. 
Parry some years ago; it flowers in the rock-garden in 
August annually, being perfectly hardy. 
Duscr. Rootstock stout, woody, giving off ascending 
simple terete subscaberulous purplish-green stems, twelve 
to sixteen inches high and leafy to the top. Leaves 
crowded, one to two inches long, sessile, spreading and 
recurved, linear-oblong or the upper quite linear, obtuse 
or subacute, coriaceous, one-nerved, margin obscurely 
scabrid, lower shorter broader, upper exceeding the 
flowers. Flowers axillary, sessile, forming a leafy spike; 
bracteoles linear. Calyx-tube cylindric, terete, red-purple ; 
lobes very narrow, erect, linear or subulate, rather shorter 
than the tube, reaching about the middle of the corolla- 
tube, scaberulous. Corolla about one inch long, violet, 
tube cylindric funnel-shaped, much longer than the short 
broadly ovate obtuse or acute erecto-patent lobes, which 
are marked on the back with two crenulate ridges that 
run down the upper part of the tube; accessory lobules 
bipartite; segments subulate, half the length of lobes. 
Filaments flattened except towards the tip; anthers short, 
cordate. Ovary turgid in the middle, narrowed upwards 
to the obscure stigmas. Capsule on a short stout hollow 
stipes. Seeds minute, oblong, flattened with a narrow 
wing.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and bracteoles; 2, portion of corolla laid open; 3, stamen; 4, 
ovary :—all enlarged. 
