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5 PeyTsTEMON Dierrauis. Fox-Guove-1ike 
Be ald PENTSTEMON. 
Class and Order. 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character. 
| Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. bilabiata, ventricosa. Rudimentum 
lamenti quinti superne barbatum. Caps. bilocularis. 
Specific Character. - 
| Pixtsremon Digitalis ; caule stricto foliisque lanceolatis 
| amplexicaulibus glabris, panicula terminali trichotoma, 
corollis externe glanduloso-pilosis. 
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| telower part, green above. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, 
| tndulate, toothed, stem-embracing ; top-ones ovate-acu- 
| Mate ; bottom-ones very much narrowed at the base. 
Powers in a very long, terminal, trichotomous panicle, 
Yhite, with purple streaks on the inside. Bractes cordate- 
| tminate. Peduncles erect. Pedicels mostly three to- 
‘ether. Calyx small, five-cleft : segments revolute, shorter 
| “an the contracted tube of the corolla. Corolla covered 
| the outside with short, glandular, viscid hairs: Tube 
| Sntracted, channelled on the upper side. Faux bell- 
| shaped, open at the mouth, and somewhat hairy. Limb — 
| "0 lipped : upper-lip bifid, with smaller revolute Jaciniz > 
| "der-lip trifid, with larger lacinie. Fertile stamens four, 
hequal ; Filamenis curved : Anthers, before the expan- 
fon of the flower, kidney-shaped, purple at the back, aud 
Glow from the escaping pollen in front: sterile filament 
‘‘mewhat longer than the fertile ; straight ; thinly covered 
ae a hairs. Germen superior, 
‘ ards the point with elas wee? bilocular : 
Descr. Stem evect, three feet high, roundish, purple at 
