A hardy perennial, propagated by seeds and division of 

 the roots. It will grow in any common garden soil. 



** Stem erect, simple, smooth, green, and glossy, varying 

 in height from 1 to 2 feet. Radical leaves lanceolate, 

 tapering to the base, quite smooth and entire, on long 

 stalks ; cauline leaves sessile, somewhat amplexicaul, ovate- 

 acuminate, passing into membranous, lacerated, acuminate 

 bractese. Flowers terminal, crowded, whorled, nearly 

 sessile, numerous. Segments of the calyx acute, mucronate, 

 slightly lacerated or fringed. Corolla tubular, somewhat 

 ventricose, pale yellow, smooth externally; the upper lip 

 2-lobed, the lower bearded with brown hairs. Stamens as 

 long as the tube ; anthers smooth, with divaricating lobes. 

 The rudiment bearded on the upper side at the apex, 

 longer than the perfect ones." — Douglas, 



<3 . xu. 



