FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



. This is a very handsome kind, from two 



CasMlja minito* to four feet tall > with a smooth stem, and 

 Red smooth leaves, which are not crinkled, 



Summer toothed, or lobed, and with more or less 



Northwest hairy k ractSj w hi c h are beautifully tinted 



with many shades of pink, red, and purple. This is a 

 magnificent plant, especially when we find it growing 

 along irrigation ditches, among blue Lupines, yellow Mimu- 

 jus and other bright flowers, where the combinations of 

 color are quite wonderful, and it is the handsomest and 

 commonest sort around Yosemite, where it grows in mead- 

 ows and moist places, from the foothills nearly up to 

 timber-line. 



This is not quite so large or handsome as 



Brush* Palnt the laSt ' but givCS much the effect f a 

 Castii&ja brush dipped in red paint, for the yellow- 



pinetorum ish bracts are beautifully tipped with 



Red and yellow scarlet and the flowers are also bright red. 

 Summer^ The roug h stem j s a f oot or more ta n > t h e 



roughish dark green leaves are not toothed 

 or lobed, but have crinkled edges, and the bracts usually 

 have three lobes. These plants grow in the mountains and 

 often make bright patches of color in the landscape. 



This is very variable, and is usually 

 Paint Brush y 



Castilleja about a foot high, with several hairy 



angustijdlia stems, springing from a long yellow root. 



Red The leaves are slightly rough, but no 



SP ri ' n e> summer coarse, with fine white hairs along th 

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margins, and light gray-green in colo 



the lowest ones not lobed, a few of the upper ones with tw 

 lobes, but most of the leaves, and the bracts, slashed int 

 three lobes. The calyx is covered with white hairs, an 

 the upper lip of the corolla is bright green. The who 

 plant is most beautiful and harmonious in color, not coars 

 like many Castillejas, and the upper part is clothed wit 

 innumerable delicate yet vivid tints of salmon, rose, an 

 deep pink, shading to scarlet and crimson, forming 

 charming contrast to the quiet tones of the lower foliag 

 This grows in gravelly soil, on dry plains and hillsides, an 

 the clumps of bloom are very striking among the sage 

 brush. 



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