FIQWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



The Spanish name, which means "KttU 

 Escobita, Owl's broom," is very appropriate for this prettj 



P lant ' The Stiff > down Y stem is from fiv 



densiflorus to fifteen inches tall and the downy leave! 



Purplish-pink are light green and become tipped witt 

 purplish-pink as they mount up the stalk 

 The flowers are about three-quarters of ai 

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

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

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

 purplish-pink and white bracts and though the flowen 

 themselves are not conspicuous the effect is feathery and 

 very pretty, especially when the plants grow in sucl 

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

 mixed with beautifully contrasting patches of blue Lupine 

 This is common along the coast. 0. purpurdscens 

 common in the Northwest and Southwest, is similar, bu 

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

 effect is handsomer and much brighter in color, but lesi 

 feathery. 



An interesting annual plant, quit< 

 Owl's Clover 



OrthocZrpus pur- pretty, about a foot high, the stem some 



pureo-dlbus times branching and the branches suggest 



Pink and white i ng those of a candelabrum, clothed witl 



Summer goft finel divided, dull green leaves an 

 Ariz., Utah, 



New Mex. ending in spikes of green bracts ac 



pretty little flowers, three-quarters of a 

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

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

 and cream-white, turning pink in fading. This gro\ 

 in dry places at altitudes of from six to eight thousan 

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



A pretty little plant, from six to eig 

 Owl's Clover 



Orthocbrpus inches high, with hairy leaves cut m 



exsertus narrow divisions and passing into pinkis 



White and pink Hl ac bracts towards the top of the stal 

 Spring, summer which afe mixed with ink and whi 



California _ , , , , ,. 



flowers, each about an inch long, so tna 



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

 lower lip of the corolla is white and the upper lip is pin 

 with a furry tip. This grows in fields. 0. attenuate 

 common in fields in the Northwest, is a slender inconspicu 

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