THE FIGWORT FAMILY. 465 



other plants and perhaps for this reason do not take kindly to life m ihc 

 garden. True wildings they are, delicate and beautiful. 



G. ienuifblia, slender gerardia, has also narrowly linear leaves, which, like 

 the long slender pedicels of the flowers, are widely spread. Although slender. 

 the plant appears quite bushy in habit owing to its being branched as a 

 panicle. In woodlands, often those of high altitudes, it grtnvs and fruni 

 Georgia to Quebec and westward. 



G. Skinneriana, Skinner's gerardia, is a rather poor-looking species in 

 comparison with some of those that in Florida attain such ample prop<jrtions. 

 Its thread-like, perceptibly rough leaves are usually from a quarter to half 

 an inch long, freely borne on the erect branches.and the pale purple or white 

 blossoms are very fragile. When growing among grasses which border 

 ponds, or in sandy thickets, it has, however, the indelible air of a gerardia. 

 This one does not blacken in drying. 



G. divaricdta, which from the base branches very widely, shows us fili- 

 form, opposite leaves, well spread out from the branches. The flowers are 

 small, with upper lobes erect and short, and they hang from slender pedicels 

 several times longer than the upper leaves. In the low, sandy soil of Florida, 

 where indeed the genus thrives amazingly, it makes its home. 



G. purpurea, large purple gerardia {Plate CLI If), \\\\\c\\ from Florida 

 occurs rather generally along the coast to Maine, is truly an exquisite sight 

 near Jacksonville as in wet sandy soil it grows along the banks of the St. 

 John's. Many of the individuals there, we found, were quite four feet tall, 

 and the variety with fascicled leaves fully five feet high, the stems much 

 branched above and rough, as were also on both sides the narrowly linear 

 leaves. The flower's pedicels were stout, about as long as the calyxes the 

 five teeth of which were pointed and spreading. But beyond those small 

 differences was the great beauty of the plant, which lay in its large, pinkish- 

 lavender corolla, inflated at the throat, with five almost equal lobes, wherein 

 were seen two distinct strips of lemon-yellow and many small dark spots. 



So much in the way of incentive for a peep into others, as well as this ex- 

 quisite one of the gerardias. 



SCARLET PAINTED CUP. INDIAN PAINT BRUSH. 



(Plate CLIV.) 



Castilleja coeei)iea. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Figwort. Scarlet and Scentless. Texas, North Carolina and I'ir- May-July. 



yellow. ginia, northzvard and ivestivard. 



Flmvers: crowded in a short, terminal spike. Catyx : green or scarlet, tubular. 

 cleft into two oblong lobes, often notched at tlieir summits and pubescent. Cor- 



