FIGWORT FAMILY 765 



to narrowly elliptic, acute, sessile; thyrsus subsecund, often rather narrow and loose; calyx 

 4-8 mm. high, the lobes lanceolate to narrowly ovate; corolla vermilion to scarlet, 22-35 mm. 

 long, 4-6 mm. wide pressed, tubular, sparingly glandular both without and within, the upper 

 lip erect, the lower lip sharply reflexed ; anthers oblong or ovate in outline, 2-2.2 mm. long, 

 microscopically muriculate, the sacs dehiscent one-four to one-third their length, the suture 

 finely and densely spinulose-ciliate ; staminode glabrous, n = 8. 



Canyon sides, Upper Sonoran, Arid Transition, and Canadian Zones; eastern and southern California from 

 Alpine County to San Diego County, adjacent Lower California, east to Colorado and Arizona. Type locality: 

 California. June-Aug. 



77. Penstemon personatus Keck. Closed Penstemon. Fig. 4714. 



Penstemon personatus Keck, Madroiio 3: 248. 1936. 



Perennial herb 3-5.5 dm. high, with few erect stems. Leaves not crowded, entire or 

 obscurely denticulate, glaucescent, glabrate above, puberulent beneath, ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, 3-6.5 cm. long, 1.2-3.5 cm. wide, the lower short-petiolate ; thyrsus lax, 7-25 cm. long, 

 glandular-pubescent, the peduncles divergent; calyx 5-6 mm. high, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, 

 abruptly long-acuminate; corolla blue-purple( ?), personate, 20-25 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely 

 viscid without, densely bearded on all sides within, the limb short ; anther-sacs divaricate, sub- 

 explanate, glabrous, 1.2-1.4 mm. long; staminode scarcely 4 mm. long, densely yellow-bearded 

 at the tip. 



Dry hillsides, Arid Transition Zone; known only from three local colonies in the Sierra Nevada of Butte 

 County, California. Type locality: Flea Valley. July. 



78. Penstemon Barrettae A. Gray. Barrett's Penstemon. Fig. 4715. 



Penstemon Barrettae A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 2': 440. 1886. 



Shrubby below, much branched, forming wide dense clumps 2^ dm. high. Leaves blue- 

 glaucous, ovate or elliptic-ovate, serrate, glabrous, the larger 4-6 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, the 

 basal short-petiolate, the upper cauline amplexicaul ; thyrsus 7-25 cm. long, dense, subracemose, 

 the peduncles 1-3-flowered ; calyx 6-7 mm. high, the lobes ovate, acute to acuminate; corolla 

 lilac or rose-purple, 33-38 mm. long, 8-12 mm. wide pressed, the rather short lips projecting, 

 the ventral ridges copiously villous ; anthers densely woolly, included ; staminode one-half to 

 three-fifths the length of fertile filaments, slender, glabrous or nearly so. n = 8. 



Basaltic cliffs and talus. Arid Transition Zone; Columbia River Gap in Klickitat County, Washington, and 

 Wasco and Hood River Counties, Oregon. Type locality: "Mountains of Hood River, Oregon, near its con- 

 fluence with the Columbia." April-June. 



79. Penstemon fruticosus (Pursh) Greene. Shrubby Penstemon. Fig. 4716. 



Gerardia fruticosa Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 423, pi. 18. 1814. 



Dasanthera fruticosa Raf. Amer. Month. Mag. 2: 267. 1818. 



Penstemon crassifolius Lindl. Bot. Reg. 24:/>/. 16. 1838. 



Penstemon Douglasii Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2:98. 1838. 



Penstemon Lewisii Benth. in A. DC. Prod. 10: 321. 1846. 



Penstemon Menziesii var. Lewisii A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 56. 1862. 



Penstemon Menziefii var. Douglasii A. Gray, op. cit. 57. 



Penstemon fruticosus Greene, Pittonia 2: 239. 1892. 



Penstemon adamsianus Howell, Fl. N.W. Amer. 511. 1901. 



Penstemon Menziesii var. crassifolius Schelle, Handb. Laubh. Benen. 432. 1903. 



Penstemon fruticosus var. crassifolius Krautter, Conlr. Bot. Lab. Univ. Penn. 3: 100. 1908. 



Shrubby at base, forming wide dense clumps 1-4 dm. high, glabrous or pruinose up to the 

 moderately glandular-pubescent inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous, green, usually lustrous, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate or oblanceolate to elliptic, acute or obtuse, even the cauline ones mostly nar- 

 rowed to the base, entire or somewhat serrulate or denticulate, 1-5 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, 

 much reduced below the inflorescence; raceme rather dense, strict, subsecund; calyx 7-10 mm. 

 high, the lobes lanceolate to lance-ovate, acuminate to caudate; corolla bright lavender-blue, 

 25-38 mm. long, 7-12 mm. wide pressed, the ventral ridges villous; staminode about one-half 

 the length of fertile filaments, very slender, yellow-bearded. n = 8. 



Rocky slopes in open coniferous woods, Arid Transition Zone to Hudsonian Zone; east of the crest of the 

 Cascades, central Washington to central Oregon, east to Montana and Wyoming. Type locality: "Rocky-Moun- 

 tains." May-July. A variable species of which the following two segregates are the least indistinct. 



Penstemon fruticosus subsp. Scouleri (Lindl.) Pennell & Keck. (Penstemon Scouleri Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 15: pi. 1277. 1829; P. Menziesii var. Scouleri A. Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. 6^: 82. 1857.) Leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 subentire to sharply serrate, mostly 2-5 mm. wide; calyx-lobes 10-15 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, attenuate- 

 caudate; corolla 35-50 mm. long, 11-15 mm. wide pressed. Northern Washington (Okanogan County to Pend 

 Oreille County) to northern Idaho and British Columbia. Type locality: Kettle Falls of the Columbia. 



Penstemon fruticosus subsp. serratus Keck. A low very shrubby form mostly 1-2 dm. high, the leaf- 

 blades narrowly to broadly elliptic, evenly and prominently serrate-dentate throughout, the larger 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 long, 4—8 mm. wide. Rocky outcrops, Transition and Canadian Zones; Blue Mountains of southeastern Wash- 

 ington, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon, and western Idaho. 



Fruticulosus, 1-2 dm. altus; foliis ellipticis acute serrato-dentatis, 1.5-2.5 cm. longis, 4-8 mm. latis. 



Type collected on a rocky cliflF, headwaters of Sheep Creek, Seven Devils Mountains, Idaho County, Idaho, 

 Marion Ownbey & Fred G. Meyer 2068 (Dudley Herbarium). 



