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PENTSTEMON* deustum. 

 Parched Pentstemon. 



DTDYNAMTA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. ScropiiularinE/T',. 

 PENTSTEMON. — Suprc), vol. 13. 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 ascendens, pedalis, v. sesquipedalis, glaber. Folia glabra, radi- 

 calia, longc petiolata, ovata, inferiora spattilata, obtusa; caulina oblongn, 

 sessilia, subamplexicaulia, omnia grosse et incequaliter inciso-serrata. Flores 

 arctt panicidati, ochroleuci, minores, calycibus corollisque glabris. 



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. 



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. 



Ste?/i ascending, a foot or a foot and a half high, smooth. 

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



* See fol. 1245. 



