FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceac. 



The Spanish name, which means "little 

 Escc 11 a, Owl s broom," is very appropriate for this pretty 

 Orthoc&rpus plant. The stiff, downy stem is from five 



densifldrus to fifteen inches tall and the downy leaves 



Purplish-pink a re light green and become tipped with 



Spring purplish-pink as they mount up the stalk. 



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The flowers are about three-quarters of an 



inch long and have a white lower lip, which is tipped with 

 yellow and has a crimson dot on each lobe, and the straight, 

 erect "beak" is crimson. The cluster is crowded with 

 purplish-pink and white bracts and though the flowers 

 themselves are not conspicuous the effect is feathery and 

 very pretty, especially when the plants grow in such 

 quantities as to color a whole field with soft pink, or when 

 mixed with beautifully contrasting patches of blue Lupine. 

 This is common along the coast. 0. purpurdscens, 

 common in the Northwest and Southwest, is similar, but 

 it has a hairy "beak," hooked at the tip, and the general 

 effect is handsomer and much brighter in color, but less 

 feathery. 



An interesting annual plant, quite 

 o7thoctrpl7pur- P^tty, about a foot high, the stem some- 

 Pureo-dlbus times branching and the branches suggest- 



Pink and white j n g those of a candelabrum, clothed with 

 u.mmer soft, finely divided, dull green leaves and 



New'Mex.' ending in spikes of green bracts and 



pretty little flowers, three-quarters of an 

 inch long. The calyx is green, the upper lip of the corolla 

 is purplish-pink and the lower lip is swollen, three-lobed 

 and cream-white, turning pink in fading. This grows 

 in dry places at altitudes of from six to eight thousand 

 feet. Only one of the branches is given in the picture. 



A pretty little plant, from six to eight 

 Orthoc&rpus inches high, with hairy leaves cut into 



exsertus narrow divisions and passing into pinkish- , 



White and pink Hl ac bracts towards the top of the stalk, 

 Spring, summer wh{ch are m{xed w{th {nk and white 

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flowers, each about an inch long, so that 



the effect of the whole is a spike of pink and white. The 

 lower lip of the corolla is white and the upper lip is pink, 

 with a furry tip. This grows in fields. 0. attenuatus, 

 common in fields in the Northwest, is a slender inconspicu- 

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