258 Scrophulariaceae 



A foot or two high, mostly sim- 

 ple and strict, smooth or nearly 

 so. Leaves lanceolate or linear 

 or the upper ovate-lanceolate 

 acute, entire or rarely 3 -cleft. 

 Flowers in a dense, short, hairy 

 spike; bracts from lanceolate to oval, mostly 

 bright red or crimson, occasionally pinkish, 

 rarely whitish, seldom lobed; calyx lobes 

 lanceolate, acutely 2-cleft; corolla over an 

 inch long; galea exserted, linear, longer than 

 the tube. 



In moist alpine meadows throughout the 

 Rockies; flowering in July. 



Perennial with a long creeping 

 Castilleja 



lanceifolia rootstock, not growing in clumps, 

 Rydb. 1-2 feet high, sparingly close- 



Scarlet hairy or nearly smooth, very 



leafy. Leaves lanceolate; often 

 Cup. 



acuminate, ij-2j inches long, 

 rather firm, 3 -veined, the upper seldom if 

 ever cleft. Flowers hi a compact terminal 

 head; bracts bright scarlet, oblong, obtuse; 



