FIQWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



smooth, stiffish, and thickish. The flowers are an inch 

 and a quarter long, with a rather sticky calyx and bright 

 carmine-pink corolla, moderately two-lipped, with a patch 

 of white hairs on the lower lip; the stamens protruding, 

 with conspicuous, white, woolly anthers, and the style ' 

 remaining on the tip of the capsule like a long purple j 

 thread. This is slightly sweet-scented and is common J 

 around Yosemite. The alpine form is less than four inches 1 

 high, with larger, lilac flowers and toothless leaves. 



This is a rather pretty shrub, about four 



feet high ' with pale W dy branches > 

 Pentstemon purplish twigs, and many, small, rich 



antirrhinoldes green leaves. The flowers have a glossy, ! 

 Yellow bright green calyx and a yellow corolla, 



^ pr ! ng . which is three-quarters of an inch long, 



California 



streaked with dull-red outside and slightly 



hairy, the sterile stamen hairy and yellow. 



This has a smooth stem and smooth, \ 

 Variable toothless leaves, but is very variable both j 



Pentstemon in form and color for the typ i cal p l ant 



Pentstemon _ t . , 



confertus from Oregon and the Rocky Mountains, 



Yellow, blue, has yellow flowers, but in Yosemite the I 



purple variety caeruleo-purpureus always has ] 



Summer bl or purp i e fl owers but the plants vary 

 Northwest and 



Cal in general appearance. In good soil, j 



such as the floor of the Valley, the stem is j 

 sometimes two feet tall and the flowers are about half an 1 

 inch long, grouped in whorls along the stem, but at high 

 altitudes the plant shrinks to a few inches in height. 



These wands of flaming scarlet are 

 Cardinal conspicuous along the trails in the Grand 



Pentstemon Canyon and are exceedingly beautiful, 



Pentstemon *., . * - -j 1 



Pdrryi very graceful in form and vivid in color, j 



Scarlet The smooth, purplish, somewhat leafy | 



Spring stems, from one and a half to two feet] 



Arizona ^^ spring from a clump of rather small 



leaves, which are toothless, smooth, and rather light green | 

 in color. The flowers are three-quarters of an inch long, -, 

 the corolla with five rounded lobes and very slightly two- 

 lipped, and look something like Scarlet Bugler, but are 

 smaller and more delicate, and are sometimes mistaken for 

 Cardinal Flowers by people from the East. 

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