C 3688 ) 
PENTSTEMON GLANDULOSUM. GLANDULAR 
PENTSTEMON. 
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‘Class and Order. 
DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Scrornutarinez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. pentaphyllus aut 5-partitus, bractea solitaria dis- 
tante. Cor. ventricosa, bilabiata. Stam. didynamia, rudi- 
mento quinti filiformi seepius barbato. Anthere sejuncte 
sepius glabre. Caps. ovata bilocularis, bivalvis poly- 
sperma. Semina angulata. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Pentstemon glandulosum ; pubescenti-glandulosum, foliis 
radicalibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis dentatis petiolatis, 
caulinis subcordatis amplexicaulibus subintegerrimis, 
corollis ventricosis, staminis rudimento glabro. 
Pentstemon glandulosum. Dougl. in Herb. Hort. Soc.— 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1262. 
A handsome, and even in Scotland, perfectly hardy plant, 
native of dry, gravelly, or rocky mountain-torrents in the 
Rocky Mountains, lat. 47° North ; and at the base of the 
Blue Mountains on the banks of the Kooskooskee river, 
six thousand three hundred feet above the level of the sea, 
it occurs frequently. It was introduced to the Horticul- 
tural Society’s garden by the late Mr. Dovetas, and it 
flowers during the months of June and July. 
Descr. Stem erect, a foot or a foot and a half and more 
high, erect, nearly simple, purple, clothed with fine glandu- 
lardown. Leaves nearly glabrous above, slightly downy, 
but scarcely glandular beneath: radical ones i. 
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