FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophularlaceac. 



This is perhaps the most beautiful of 

 Blue Pentstemon, &u the p en tstemons, with several smooth, 

 Beard-tongue 

 Pentstemon stoutish, pale green, leafy stems, from one 



cyan&nthus to two feet tall and smooth, pale bluish- 



Blue green leaves, with more or less "bloom," 



Spring, summer toothless and thickish, the upper ones 

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somewhat clasping. The flowers are not 



hairy or sticky, and are over an inch long, forming a hand- 

 some cluster about eight inches long. The sepals are 

 narrow and pointed, the corolla is tinted with various 

 beautiful shades of blue and purple, often with a white 

 throat and blue lobes, or with a pink throat and deep blue 

 lobes, the sterile filament has a thickened, more or less 

 hairy, yellow tip, and the pale yellow anthers are more or j 

 less hairy. This plant is beautiful in every way, for the j 

 foliage is fine in form and color and the flowers are bril- 

 liantly variegated, yet harmonious and graceful. This 

 grows on hillsides and. in mountain valleys, at rather high 

 altitudes, and used to be common and conspicuous on the j 

 "benches" around the Salt Lake Valley, but it is gradually ; 

 being exterminated by sheep. It thrives and improves | 

 when transplanted into gardens. P. acuminatus is similar, j 

 but the cluster is looser and the flowers often pink and pur- j 

 pie. It forms fine patches of color at the Grand Canyon, j 

 A handsome shrub, with much the j 



Honeysuckle general appearance of a Honeysuckle, 



Pentstemon 



Pentstemon woody below, with long slender branches 



cordifolius and pretty heart-shaped leaves. The! 



Red flowers are often in pairs and are each an] 



Summer inch and h lf j ith bright scarlet 



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corollas, conspicuously two-lipped, the \\ 



stamens protruding, and form large clusters towards 

 the ends of the branches. This grows in light shade inj! 

 the woods and trails its long branches and garlands oil 

 bright flowers over the neighboring shrubs and trees. 



A beautiful little shrub, making splen- 

 Pride-of-the- did patc h es of vivid color on high bare!! 

 Pentstemon rocks in the mountains, where it is very I j 



Newberryi conspicuous, hanging over the edges of j 



Pink, lilac inaccessible ledges. The stems are woody 



Summer below. and y branching, about a foot 



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high, and the leaves are usually toothed, 



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