246 Pink to Red Flowers 



" Scarlet tufts 

 Are glowing in the green like flakes of fire." 



And when we see them in their royal radiance we remem- 

 ber how the ancients once worshipped the God of Fire — 

 and understand. 



Castilleja nipicola, or Bright Painted Cup, is a hairy 

 plant with tufted stems growing from a multicipital caudex. 

 The herbage is often purplish and the leaves are narrow 

 deeply cleft into three to seven lobes, while the broad-lobed 

 bracts are tinged with bright scarlet and the flowers, grow- 

 ing in a short raceme, are of the same vivid hue. 



Castilleja oreopala, or Magenta Painted Cup, has erect 

 stems which are somewhat furrowed by the inconspicuous 

 decurrence of the narrow sessile leaves that have one or 

 two pairs of spreading lobes. The bracts are three-cleft to 

 the middle and their lobes, as well as the calyx, are usually 

 a rich magenta or rose-purple hue, rarely crimson or white. 

 This plant grows at very high altitudes. 



WESTERN WOOD BETONY 



Pcdicidavis hvactcosa. Figwort Family 



Stems: stout, high, erect, simple. Leaves: linear in outline, the 

 radical ones petioled, pinnate, the oblong leaflets pinnately parted, the 

 segments incisely dentate, cauline broader in outline ; bracts ovate, 

 shorter than the flowers. Flowers: spike cylindrical, very dense; 

 calyx sparsely pilose ; corolla ochroleucous, the tube equalling the 

 calyx; galea longer and larger than the lower lip, its cucullate summit 

 slightly produced at the entire endentulate orifice, but not beaked. 



A tall coarse plant, with handsome, green, fern-like foli- 

 age, but clumsy uninteresting flowers. On the top of the 

 stout reddish stems grow large, hairy, bracted spikes, with 

 many small dull red flowers, which resemble a parrot's beak, 

 with their raised hooded upper lips and small lower ones. 



