FIQWORT FAMILY. Scrophalariaceae. 



smooth, stiffish, and thickish. The flowers are an inch 

 and a quarter long, with a rather sticky calyx and bright 

 carmine-pink corolla, moderately two-lipped, with a patch 

 of white hairs on the lower lip; the stamens protruding, 

 with conspicuous, white, woolly anthers, and the style 

 remaining on the tip of the capsule like a long purple 

 thread. This is slightly sweet-scented and is common 

 around Yosemite. The alpine form is less than four inches 

 high, with larger, lilac flowers and toothless leaves. 



This is a rather pretty shrub, about four 

 feet high, with pale woody branches, 

 purplish twigs, and many, small, rich 

 green leaves. The flowers have a glossy, 

 bright green calyx and a yellow corolla, 

 which is three-quarters of an inch long, 

 streaked with dull-red outside and slightly 

 hairy, the sterile stamen hairy and yellow. 



This has a smooth stem and smooth, 

 toothless leaves, but is very variable both 

 in form and color, for the typical plant, 

 from Oregon and the Rocky Mountains, 

 has yellow flowers, but in Yosemite the 

 variety caeruleo-purptireus always has 

 blue or purple flowers, but the plants vary 

 in general appearance. In good soil, 

 such as the floor of the Valley, the stem u 

 sometimes two feet tall and the flowers are about half a 

 inch long, grouped in whorls along the stem, but at hig 

 altitudes the plant shrinks to a few inches in height. 



These wands of flaming scarlet ar 

 conspicuous along the trails in the Gran 

 Canyon and are exceedingly beautifu 

 very graceful in form and vivid in color 

 The smooth, purplish, somewhat leafy 

 stems, from one and a half to two feet 

 tall, spring from a clump of rather small 

 leaves, which are toothless, smooth, and rather light grec 

 in color. The flowers are three-quarters of an inch long 

 the corolla with five rounded lobes and very slightly two- 

 lipped, and look something like Scarlet Bugler, but 

 smaller and more delicate, and are sometimes mistaken 

 Cardinal Flowers by people from the East. 

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Bushy Beard- 

 tongue 



Pentstemon 



antirrhinoUes 



Yellow 



Spring 



California 



Variable 



Pentstemon 



Pentstemon 



confertus 



Yellow, blue, 



purple 



Summer 



Northwest and 



Cal. 



Cardinal 



Pentstemon 



Pentstemon 



Pdrryi 



Scarlet 



Spring 



Arizona 



