Scrophulariaceae 257 



usually entire or occasionally cleft, from 

 deep purple-red to scarlet and rarely yellow 

 to tinged with red or pink; calyx f-i inch 

 long, ranging in color with the bracts ; corolla 

 i-ij inches long, galea green or greenish- 

 yellow with scarlet margins and exserted . 

 beyond the calyx and floral bracts. 



Frequent in the lower altitudes through 

 the Rockies; very abundant and striking on 

 the flood -plain of the Kicking Horse River 

 at Field; flowering during June. 



Commonly hairy with weak cob- 

 Castilleja 



pallida webby hairs, a foot or less high. 



Kunth. Leaves linear to lanceolate or 



White the upper ovate lanceolate. 



Flowers in dense leafy-bracted 



Paint-brush 



spikes; bracts oval or obovate, 

 partly white or yellowish, cobwebby-hairy, 

 equalling the corolla; calyx 2-cleft, the lobes 

 oblong or lanceolate, corolla J-i inch long; 

 galea not exceeding the calyx. 



In moist open grounds at the higher alti- 

 tudes throughout the Rockies; flowering 

 in July. 



