1286 



PENTSTEMON* glaiicum. 



Glaucous Pentstemon. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Scrophulauine;e. 

 PENTSTEMON. — Suprd, vol. 13. /oZ. 1121. 



P. glaucum ; caule herbaceo glabriusculo, foliis omnibus glaberrimis : radi- 

 calibus lanceolatis petiolatis integerrimis denticulatisve ; caulinis brac- 

 teisque ovato-lanceolatis sessilibus amplexicaulibus, panicula tliyrsoidea, 

 corollis inflatis calycibusque extCis glanduloso-pubescentibus, Hlamento 

 sterili porrecto barbato. 



P. glaucus. Graham in Jamiesons journal, July 1829, p. 348. 



P. gracilis. Bot. mag. 2945, as far as the description is concerned, but 

 not the fisfure. 



A dwarf species, thriving in common soil, flowering in profusion 

 in August and September, and propagated by division of the roots 

 and by seeds. It grows about a foot high. 



The plant from which our figure of this interesting species was 

 taken, was sent from the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, to that of the 

 Horticultural Society, as a Pentstemon, at that time unnamed, which 

 had been raised froni the seeds collected by Mr. Drummond, during 

 Dr. Richardson's last journey in Arctic America. It was afterwards 

 published in the work above quoted, along with an excellent descrip- 

 tion, as a new species, by Dr. Graham. Subsequently, our friend 

 Dr. Hooker has referred the species to P. gracile of Nuttall, in which 

 he is undoubtedly mistaken, as we trust to shew. 



The sources from which the materials for P. gracile in the 

 Botanical Magazine were taken, were, first, u plant which flowered in 

 the Glasgow Garden, it does not appear whence received, but which 

 afforded the specimen from which the figure was made; and, secondly. 

 Dr. Graham's description above referred to. Now, these two are not 

 in accordance with each other. Dr. Graham says, that the radical 



* See fol. 1245. 



