PENTSTEMON. 



suddenly yawning, borne in a close spray like a spike, and each about 

 three-quarter.- of an inch in length. 



P fruiescens, unless it greatly lies, is the one species to cross the sea 

 by way of Unalaska into Asiatic Russia, where it makes sub-shrubby 

 masses with oblong leaves, smooth-edged, or toothed here and there, 

 sitting tight to the branches and fringed at their edge, but otherwise 

 nearly bald, while the fluffy-piled flowers are borne in terminal showers. 

 P fruticosus is the beautiful and attractive little plant that dehghts 

 one in the high and stony places of the Canadian Rockies It makes 

 straying mats through The shingle— a woody and branching dwari, 

 with sprays of some 8 to 20 inches, set with thick oblong narrow leaves, 

 dork and 'toothed, some 2 inches long (or more or much less), the twigs 

 ending in a flight of single stemlings, each carrying one enormous 

 swollen upright Snapdragon nearly 2 inches long and usually of a 

 luscious red-violet, but varying into bluer and hotter shades It is 

 no less a joy to meet meandering in the grey shales beyond Lake Louise, 

 than to see wandering in one's own-a really alpine species in a race 

 where such are the exception. 



P qentianoeides deserves respect as being the parent of the gorgeous 

 garden Fatties— though how it dares call itself like a Gentian we must 

 leave admirers of Gentiana purpurea to decide. 



' P qlaber with lovely P. Brandegeei for an offshoot, occupies moist 

 sandy places from Dakota and Nebraska far into the West, It is leafy 

 and more or less glaucous-blue, with firm and toothless foliage the 

 lower leaves (no less than those at the base of the tuft), having foot- 

 stalks : and the spikes stand or flop some 12 or 24 inches, narrow and 

 protracted in outline, filled with flowers of the loveliest pure clear blue, 

 expanding abruptly as soon as they leave the calyx. P. spewsus is 

 simply a variety of this, standing more erect, taller, more slender, 

 and with a looser spire of blossom. 



P. glandulosus is taU and leafy, and goes easily out of these pages, 

 with its large but dimmish lilac flowers. 



P glaums belongs to the Northern Rockies, and is worth the seek- 

 ing there. It has thick fat oblong foliage, entire or a little toothed, 

 and stems that flop or rise to some 4 to 16 inches ending each in a 

 short compact spike of baggy great violet flowers, about an inch long, 

 in simple or branching clusters. The whole growth is hairless till you 

 get to the spikes, which are sticky : and forms a matted mass with many 

 slender stems of blossom. Its variety, P. g. stenosepalus sometimes 

 called P. arizonicus, is taller and commoner, more lax and showery in 

 effect, with dull pale trumpets. 



P Gordoni is a form or synonym of P. glaber. 



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