PENTSTEMON. 



are narrowly funnel-shaped, and about half an inch in length, dark- 

 blue, or white in part — especially in the variety P. h. pseudolmmilis 

 (it surely should take an American, so to bastardise two immortal 

 languages in a name so grotesque), which, like the type, is a high- 

 alpine from the rocks and canons of the central ranges. 



P. JatMsii Benth., is a very lovely little jewel, forming a bush like- 

 some lax Rosemary, rather flopping and not more than 6 inches high, 

 so narrow are the many small leaves, all vested in a fine dense hoar of 

 down ; the flowers are ample and baggy., of the loveliest blue and white, 

 with a lined throat, borne in dense sprays protected by narrow bracts 

 usually at least as long as the flower-stems. In any likely open place 

 this dainty thing, with its seductive little bright blooms in later 

 summer, forms ever-spreading masses, and, apparently, is a startling 

 example of goodness emerging from unlikely quarters, seeing that 

 its home is in the Bad Lands of Wyoming and South Dakota. One 

 only wishes Wyoming would exchange some of its Bad Lands for some 

 of ours. 



P. Jamesii (Gray) = P. similis, q.v. 



P. Kingii makes a woody base, from which it sends up a great 

 number of stems about 6 inches high, more or less. The foliage is 

 narrowish-oval. almost untoothed and unstalked, and the whole clump 

 is rimy with down beneath. The one-sided flower-sprays are short 

 and leaf} 7 to their base, with one to four flowers gathered together on 

 foot-stalks. They are purple, and not far from an inch in length, 

 widening upwards. 



P. laevigatas is the type from which springs P. digitalis. They 

 are both large, coarse, and leafy things of a yard high, with stolid 

 Bwollen bells in dowdy shades of lilac. 



P. laricifolius is smooth and tufted, from a woody stock which 

 keeps level with the ground. The leaves are very narrow, crowded 

 at the base, and set more loosely in the many shoots of 4 to 8 inches, 

 ending in few-flowered loose clusters of purple blossoms, each on a 

 delicate foot -stalk, the whole effect being of delicate habit and 

 branch to match, like a spray of larch stuck into the ground. (See 

 P. aridu8.) 



J'. Lemmoni has little claim on us. It is a bush of 2 or 4 feet, 

 bright green, with flowers of purple and dull yellow. 



/'. Unaroi ld\ ■ stands near to P. cae&pitosus and has the same woody 



stock, but i looser in habit, with quhv narrow pointed Leaves and 



the lower clusters having souk- four flowers, and 



being tubular runnels of blue, nearly an inch in length. 



LA. colom Is.) And there is also a dwarfer form, P. I. Sileri, 



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