PENTSTEM< »N. 



shoots, thin in texture, and with very slender foot -stalks as long as 

 them- be flowers are blue, nearly an inch in length. 



P. Bridge-iii is also woody at the base., and the sprays are about a 

 foot or more in height, set with narrowly paddle-shaped small foliage. 

 and ending in a tv. gg -ided spike of narrow scarlet trui- 



in cl -hort foot-- ith their lips about a third of the 



length of their tube. (Nevada. California, and South-West Colorado.) 

 torn* mak- . - Ae mats all finely downy till 



they are . about half an 



inch long with their stalk, and the stems are not more than 2 or 3 

 inches high, with upturned tubular-funnel-shaped flowers arranged in 

 a one-sided spray on their fo< 



P. t as no worth foi rmP. pall id us. 



P. centra • ' - a tall and leafy scarlet -flowered Californian. 



P. Cobaea has no more. It is a leafy tall coarse plant of no marked 

 hardiness, with enormous bloated bells of dim and washed-out lilac. 



P. - under P. angtt 



P. c: matted mass of smooth elliptic-oblong little leaves 



on foot -stalks as long - themselves, from which arise a great number 

 of downy stems from 4 to 16 inches in height, set with slender-tubed 

 flowers of deep blue, about half an inch long, gathered in knots of 

 half a dozen or so in a broken spire. (Gravel hills of Montana and 



P. cot I do, Utah. &e., is S inches high 



(but can attain to more than a foot), and is glaucous-smooth or else 

 minutely I sorns are of rich purple-blue, 



large and handsome, about an inch long, carried in lax and feathery 

 -. each with long and narrow tube. 

 P. cc . neat massed and matted plant, 



with many wiry stems of about a foot high, crowded with disappointing 

 and common-looking little sulphur-pale flowers in a series of packed 

 heads. T J very variable, and there is a variety, P. c. pur- 



pmreo-coendeus, which has a rather more compact habit, and flowers 

 of purplish-blue ; but P. confertus, altogether, does not rank as high 

 idy preliminary La bit would lead us to hope. 

 P. cordifolius is a half climber, coarse, with scarlet blossoms. 



- rubby, and its stems are about a foot high 



or a little more. The leaves are hairless and oblong, and pointed at 



both end- more downy flower-shoots are ended by plumes of 



br ght scarlet blooms each about an inch long. (From dry rocky 



i the coast r _ Shasta, at high elevations.) 



indallii has a woodv base and notably branchy stems of not 



