126 PENTSTEMON PERAPHYLLUM 







2 ins. long, % to -J in. wide ; pointed, tapered to both ends, toothed, the 

 smaller basal leaves of the shoot entire ; scarcely stalked. Flowers blue- 

 purple, arranged oppositely on erect terminal racemes opening in June ; 

 the funnel-shaped, two-lipped corolla is ii ins. long, -expanded at the 

 mouth into three lower lobes and two upper ones, and there i in. or more 

 across. Stamens five, two-thirds as long as the corolla, one of them 

 sterile ; anthers very hairy ; calyx-lobes awl-shaped. 



Native of Western N. America; introduced in 1828 by Douglas. It 

 is, perhaps, no more than one of the more shrubby forms of a very 

 variable species to which P. MENZIESII, Hooker^ a dwarfer plant, with 

 oval or obovate leaves, also belongs. Both these showy little plants 

 like a warm sunny position and a sandy, loamy soil. Easily increased by 

 cuttings. 



Another fairly hardy Pentstemon is P. HETEROPHYLLUS, Lindley. It 

 is of a shrubby nature, growing ij to 3 ft. high, and has slender stems 

 furnished with smooth, opposite, stalkless, linear leaves, i to 4 ins. long, 

 \ to \ in. wide. Flowers reddish purple, i to i J ins. long, anthers hairy 

 at the margins. Introduced in 1828 for the Horticultural Society by 

 David Douglas (Bot. Mag., t. 3853). 



P. CORYMBOSUS, Bentham^ is sometimes grown against a wall, where 

 it is 4 ft. high, its oval or ovate leaves -J to i-J ins. long; flowers bright 

 red, the tube about i in. long; anthers not hairy. Both these species 

 are Californian. 



PERAPHYLLUM RAMOSISSIMUM. 



PERAPHYLLUM RAMOSISSIMUM, Nuttall. ROSACES. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 7420.) 



A deciduous shrub, 6 to 10 ft. high in some of its native haunts, of 

 spreading habit ; branchlets at first downy, ultimately smooth and bluish 

 grey. Leaves i to' 2 ins. long, about J in. wide ; narrowly oblanceolate, 



