FIQWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



This is a very handsome kind, from two 



CosiMjo mini** to four fcet tall with a smooth stem, and 

 Red smooth leaves, which are not crinkled, 



Summer toothed, or lobed, and with more or less 



hairy bracts, which are beautifully tinted 

 with many shades of pink, red, and purple. This is a 

 magnificent plant, especially when we find it growing 

 along irrigation ditches, among blue Lupines, yellow Mimu- 

 lus and other bright flowers, where the combinations of 

 color are quite wonderful, and it is the handsomest and 

 commonest sort around Yosemite, where it grows in mead- 

 ows and moist places, from the foothills nearly up to 

 timber-line. 



This is not quite so large or handsome as 

 Scarlet Paint the ^ but . ycs much thc cffect of 



Brush 

 Castilleja brush dipped in red paint, for the yellow- 



pinetdrum ish bracts are beautifully tipped with 



Red and yellow scarlet and the flowers arc also bright red. 

 Summer The roug | 1 stcm j s a f oot or more ^ the 



roughish dark green leaves are not toothed 

 or lobcd, but have crinkled edges, and the bracts usually 

 have three lobes. These plants grow in the mountains and 

 often make bright patches of color in thc landscape. 



This is very variable, and is usually 

 Paint Brush . . 



Castilleja about a loot high, with several hairy 



angustijolia stems, springing from a long yellow root. 



Red The leaves are slightly rough, but not 



S e U v mmer coarse ' with fine white hairs alon S the 

 margins, and light gray-green in color, 



the lowest ones not lobed, a few of thc upper ones with two 

 lobes, but most of the leaves, and the bracts, slashed into 

 three lobes. The calyx is covered with white hairs, and 

 the upper lip of the corolla is bright green. The whole 

 plant is most beautiful and harmonious in color, not coarse 

 like many Castillejas, and the upper part is clothed with 

 innumerable delicate yet vivid tints of salmon, rose, and 

 deep pink, shading to scarlet and crimson, forming a 

 charming contrast to the quiet tones of the lower foliage. 

 This grows in gravelly soil, on dry plains and hillsides, and 

 the clumps of bloom are very striking among the sage 

 brush. 



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