260 PINK TO MAGENTA 



PAINTED CUP: Scarlet Painted Cup: Indian 

 Paint-brush. Castilleja coccinea. 



Figwort Family. May — July. 



Found in wet meadows, moist, sandy soil. 

 Massachusetts to Manitoba, south to Virginia, 

 Tennessee and Texas. 

 Flowers — Small, greenish yellow, quite eclipsed 

 by the 3-cleft floral leaves which are 

 generally tipped with brilliant scar- 

 let; flowers borne in clusters terminat- 

 ing stem 8—10 inches high. 

 Leaves — Lower leaves oblong, clustered, undi- 

 vided; upper ones generally deeply 3—5 

 cleft, stemless, stained on the tip with 

 scarlet. 



