FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



This is an odd-looking plant, from one 



t0 tW feet tal1 ' which SCems unable to 

 Antirrhinum decide whether or not it is a vine, for the 

 strictum pedicels of the flowers are exceedingly 



Blue slender and twist like tendrils and by their 



means the plant clings to its neighbors and 

 raises its weak stems from the ground, or, 

 if it finds no support, it stands almost erect and waves its 

 tendrils aimlessly in the air. It is smooth all over, with 

 dark green leaves and pretty, bright purplish-blue flowers, 

 about half an inch long, with a pale, hairy palafe, which ; 

 almost closes the throat. This grows in the South, near 

 the sea. A . vcLgans is similar and is common farther north 

 in California, growing on dry open wooded hills or in 

 canyons of the Coast Ranges, blooming in summer and 

 autumn. 



There are many kinds of Castilleja, almost always 

 perennials, usually parasitic on the roots of other plants, 

 usually handsome and striking, the conspicuous feature 

 being the large leafy bracts, colored like flowers, which 

 adorn the upper part of the stem. They usually have 

 several stems, springing from woody roots; leaves alternate, 

 without leaf-stalks, green below and gradually merging 

 above into colored bracts; flowers crowded in terminal 

 clusters, mixed with bracts; calyx tubular, flattened, more 

 or less cleft in front or behind, or on both sides, the lobes 

 sometimes two-toothed, colored like the bracts, enclosing 

 the tube of the corolla; corolla less conspicuous and duller 

 in color than the calyx, tubular, two-lipped, the lower lip j 

 short and very small, not inflated, with three small teeth, j 

 the upper lip long and beaklike, enclosing the four 

 stamens and single threadlike style; stigma cap-shaped or 

 two-lobed; anther-sacs unequally attached to the filament,, 

 one by its middle and the other hanging by its tip ; capsule 

 egg-shaped or oblong, splitting open, containing many 

 seeds. These gaudy plants are well named Indian Paint 

 Brush, for the flower-cluster and leaf-tips look as if they 

 had been dipped in color. Red Feather is also good but 

 Painted Cup is rather poor, as there is nothing cup-like 

 about the flower. They were named for Castillejo, a 

 Spanish botanist. 



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