FIQWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceac. 



One of the handsomest of its kind, a 

 KOTO PeUcan fine thrifty plant, but not at all coarse, 

 Onhoc&rpus anc ^ mucn prettier and more effective 



faudbarb&tus than the next. The branching stem is 

 Yellow, whitish about a foot tall, and the leaves are very 

 light, bright yellowish-green, and thin in 

 texture. The flowers are about an inch 

 long, with very clear bright yellow "pouches" and 

 greenish "beaks" tipped with white. They have a curi- 

 ously solid appearance, as if carved out of yellow wax, and 

 are very pleasing and fresh in color, harmonizing well with 

 the light green bracts, which give a very feathery effect to 

 the top of the cluster. Like most of its relations, the 

 flowers are more effective when we look down on them, 

 growing among the grass, than when they are picked and 

 we see them in profile. The corollas are sometimes pinkish- 

 white. This is common in the valleys cf the Coast Ranges. 



From five to ten inches tall, with a 

 Johnny-Tuck 

 Orthoctrpus slender, downy, purplish stem, often 



eridnthus branching, dull green, downy leaves and 



Yellow purplish-tipped bracts. The sulphur- 



Sprmg yellow flowers are usually an inch long. 



Cal., Oreg. 



with a magenta beak and a very slender, 



white tube. They are pretty and very common on plains. 

 A delicate little plant, from five to ten 

 y " inches tall with a slender, downy, reddish 

 Pink Popcorn stem, hairy, dull green leaves and bracts, 

 Flower and very pretty little flowers, nearly an 



Orthoc&rpus eri- i nc h long; the corollas varying from almost 

 Anthus var. roslus white tQ bright pink> but &u the game 



Spring shade on one plant, with a little yellow at 



California the center and a maroon-colored "beak." 



They are deliciously sweet-scented, like 

 violets, and grow in dry places. The variety versicolor, 

 Popcorn Beauty, has fragrant white flowers. 



This often makes patches of bright 



Wl ' S 



Orthoc&rpus w ^ st ^ sender, hairy stems, hairy leaves, 



Ititeus and pretty bright yellow flowers, nearly 



Yellow half an inch long. This grows in dry 



sunny places as far east as Colorado. 

 West, etc. 



reaching an altitude of ten thousand feet. 



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