FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophula*iaceae 



A bushy plant, from two to five feet 

 Yawning high, with many smooth, slender branches, 



Pentstemon terminating in long loose clusters of 



Penlstemon * 



brevijldrus flowers. 1 he leaves are smooth, rather 



Flesh-color dark green, the lower ones sharply toothed, 



Summer an( ^ the flowers are three-quarters of an 



California inch long; the corolla fl es h-color, tipped 



with pink, with some purple lines on the lower lip, and 

 some fine white hairs on the upper; the buds yellow/tipped 

 with dark red. These flowers are too dull in color to be 

 effective, but they are sweet-smelling and have ridiculous 

 faces with widely yawning mouths. This is quite common 

 in Yosemite, forming large clumps on open rocky slopes. 

 Indians use the tough stems for making baskets. 



Exceedingly handsome, with smooth, 

 Scarlet p a i e green stems, two feet or more tall, 



^wtmon and smooth ' rather bluish-green leaves, 



Tdrreyi with slightly rippled edges. The corolla 



Red is an inch and a quarter long, vivid scarlet, 



Summer paler inside, strongly two-lipped, with 



long, conspicuous stamens, with pale 

 yellow anthers, the style remaining on the tip of the cap- 

 sule like a long purple thread. This makes splendid clumps 

 of gorgeous color and is common on the rim of the Grand 

 Canyon. 



There are a number of kinds of Collinsia, natives of 

 North America, with the leaves opposite or in whorls; the 

 flowers single or in whorls; the calyx five-cleft; the corolla 

 irregular, with a short tube and two-lipped; the upper lip 

 two-cleft and more or less erect, the lower lip larger and 

 three-lobed, the side lobes spreading or drooping, the middle 

 lobe keel-like and folded together and enclosing the two 

 pairs of stamens and the threadlike style, which has a ! 

 small round-top tfr two-lobed stigma. The fifth stamen is j 

 represented by a minute gland on the upper side of the 

 corolla tube near the base. The form of the flowers some- 

 what suggests those of the Pea Family. If we pull the 

 lower lip apart we find the odd little crevice in which the 

 stamens are concealed. 



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