PENTSTEMON. 



with only one blossom at a time up the spray, instead of clusters, 

 and this rather smaller, Avliile the leaves axe longer. 



P. Menziesii appears not to be hi cultivation. It is a variable 

 species, which has given us at least one noble thing in P. M. 

 Scouleri, q.v. 



P. MoffaUii sends up several steins of from 4 to 20 inches, glandular, 

 with hairs above, and crowded at the base with smooth-edged egg- 

 shaped, paddle-shaped little leaves of which the upper ones sit close 

 to the stem and half embrace it with their heart-lobed base. The 

 flowers are many and purplish-blue, borne in separate clusters up the 

 stem. (From dry plateaux in the Central Rockies.) 



P. montanus is herbaceous from the perennial woody root-stock, 

 and sends up a number of stems of 4 to 8 inches, clothed up to the 

 spikes in grey-downy foliage, oblong-narrow, and very conspicuously 

 toothed. The fine ample flowers are pink in the tube, and purple 

 in the face, borne in several pairs, and about an inch long. (This is a 

 high-alpine from the mountains of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.) 



P. Murrayanus need not enter into these pages, being too large 

 to fit, and too tender to suit. 



P. Newberryi sounds like the charming Newbury Gems in name 

 alone. The species sends up foot-high stems from a perennially 

 woody base, and they are set with leathery little round or roundish 

 leaves, and end in sprays of bright scarlet flowers sitting tight and 

 lonely to the stem. It lives in the upper mountain rocks of the coast 

 ranges, and is sometimes called P. sonomensis. 



P. oreophilus=P. alpinus, q.v. 



P. ovatus blooms from August to October. It is about a yard 

 high, light green in the thin -textured leaf, and carrying heads of little 

 dark blue or purple flowers, by no means attractive on so gawky a 

 stem. 



P. Oweni is a much better plant in the relationship of P. procerus, 

 much dwarf er, only about 6 inches high, downyish, and with larger 

 bugles of blue violet. (From the high mountains of Wyoming.) 



P. pallidus. See under P. canescens. 



P. Palmeri is 18 inches tall, with flowers of dim lilac on slender 

 foot -stalks, in a lax and twiggily branching naked spire. 



P. procerus likes moist parks and meadows. It has lanceolate 

 stalked leaves of which the longest are to be met with midway up the 

 many slender stems of 4 inches or nearly a foot and a half. The 

 blue-violet flowers are rather small, borne in dense whorls, about half 

 an inch long. Though often praised, this is not among the most 

 dainty and attractive. There is also a variety, P. p. pseudoprocerus, 



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