FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaccae. 



This is very much like the last in every 

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Penis&mon way, except the color of its flowers. The 



Wnghtii leaves are smooth and thickish, bluish- 



Pink, purple green, with a "bloom," the lower ones 



with a few irregular, blunt teeth, or with 

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wavy margins, and the flowers, which are 



the same shape and size as the last, are deep, bright 

 pink, with a magenta line on each lobe and some white 

 hairs on the lower lip. The filaments are purple, with 

 whitish anthers, and the fifth stamen resembles a tiny 

 brush, with yellow bristles on the upper side and pointing 

 into the throat. The whole effect of the graceful flower- 

 cluster is bright, beautiful, and conspicuous, growing among 

 the rocks, on hillsides and in canyons. 



This is very beautiful and varied in 

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Pentstemon laltus c l r an d is the commonest kind in Yose- 

 Blue, purple mite, from one to two feet high, with rough- 



Summer i sn> toothless leaves and several slender, 



erect, somewhat hairy branches, ending in 

 long loose clusters of flowers. The corollas are an inch 

 long, and vary from deep bright blue through all shades 

 of violet to deep pink, with two white ridges in the throat, 

 and with two white anthers visible and two purple ones 

 hidden in the throat. The flowers' faces have a quaint, 

 wide-awake expression. This grows on dry rocky slopes 

 and is often mistaken for P. heterophyllus, which is rather 

 common in open places in the Coast Ranges. P. linarioides, 

 blooming in late summer at the Grand Canyon, is some- 

 what similar, but the flowers are smaller and more delicate, 

 and the leaves are smooth, small, and narrow. 



Very beautiful, from two to three feet 

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PentstemonEatoni^^ Wlth Purplish stems, smooth leaves, 

 Red and flowers an inch long, with a bright 



Spring scarlet, funnel-shaped corolla, not much 



Arix., Utah two-lipped, the stamens not protruding. 



These graceful wands of vivid color are conspicuous in the 

 Grand Canyon. P. centranthijblius, common in Califor- 

 nia, is similar, the corolla less two-lipped, and has very 

 smooth, thickish leaves. P. Bridgesii, found in Yosemite, 

 is similar, but the corolla is decidedly two-lipped. 



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