340 Yellow to Orange Flowers 



Lithospcrnmin rudcrale, or Hairy Puccoon, has numer- 

 ous soft-hairy, very leafy stems growing from a crown of 

 thick roots. The leaves are narrow and tapering, and the 

 yellow flowers are densely crowded in a leafy thyrsus. 

 The narrow sepals are hairy, and the campanulate-funnel- 

 form corolla is twice as long as the calyx, and silky outside. 

 The white bony nutlets are ovate, pointed and polished. 

 Both these Puccoons have a sweet smell. 



YELLOW BEARD-TONGUE 



Penstemon conferttis. Figwort Family 



Stems: slender. Leaves: lower ones lanceolate, attenuate below to 

 narrow petioles, mostly entire, the caiiline sessile by a broad base. 

 Flowers: thyrsus spiciform, interrupted, dense, many-flowered clusters; 

 corolla very narrow, lower lip conspicuously bearded within. 



The Yellow Beard-tongue grows high up on the moun- 

 tains. The flowers, which vary in hue from yellow to 

 cream colour, are set in several dense clusters round about 

 the stem, encircling it at intervals. 



YELLOW MONKEY-FLOWER 



Mimulus Langsdoviii. Figwort Family 



Stems: erect. Leaves: ovate, sessile, denticulate. Flowers: terminal; 

 calyx ventricose-campanulate; corolla-tube cylindric, its limb bilabiate, 

 the upper lip erect, two-lobed, the lower lip spreading, three-lobed. 



A small plant bearing abnormally large quaint flowers, 

 bright yellow in colour and usually spotted with brownish- 

 red inside the corolla. The lower three-cleft lip is heavily 

 bearded within by soft fine hairs, and so tiny are the little 

 roundish leaves, and so slim the short stems, that the big 

 bright blossoms appear rather top-heavy for so small a 

 plant. Not actually growing in the water, but rather on 



