FIQWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



A bushy plant, from two to five feel 

 Yawning high, with many smooth, slender branches, 



Pentstemon terminating in long loose clusters d 



Pentsttmon 5L 



brevifldrus flowers. The leaves are smooth, rathei 



Flesh-color dark green, the low.er ones sharply toothed 



Summer an d the flowers are three-quarters of ar 



inch long; the corolla flesh- color, tippec 

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

 some fine white hairs on the upper; the buds yellow, tippec 

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

 effective, but they are sweet-smelling and have ridiculoui 

 faces with widely yawning mouths. This is quite commor 

 in Yosemite, forming large clumps on open rocky slopes 

 Indians use the tough stems for making baskets. 



Exceedingly handsome, with smooth 

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



^tfttmon and smooth > rather bluish-green leaves 



Torreyi W1 - tn slightly rippled edges. The corolU 



Red is an inch and a quarter long, vivid scarlet 



Summer paler inside, strongly two-lipped, witl 



long, conspicuous stamens, with pal< 

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

 sule like a long purple thread. This makes splendid clump: 

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

 Canyon. 



There are a number of kinds of Collinsia, natives 

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

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

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

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

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

 lobe keel-like and folded together and enclosing the tw 

 pairs of stamens and the threadlike style, which has 

 small round-top or two-lobed stigma. The fifth stamen 

 represented by a minute gland on the upper side of t 

 corolla tube near the base. The form of the flowers som 

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

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

 stamens are concealed. 



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