Pentstemon. SCROPHULARIACE.E. 557 



++ Corolla red, long and narrow-tubular {an inch or more in length) : the upper lip 

 erect; lower more or less spreading: inflorescence somewhat glandular, paniculati 



or ci/mosf : st, rile filament bearded down om side. 



2. P. cordifolius, Benth. Scrambling over bushes by long sarmentose branches 

 to several feet in height, scabrous-puberulent, very leafy : leaves somewhat cordate, 

 or ^<>me ovate with a truncate base, mostly acute and serrate or denticulate with 

 sharp salient teeth : the veins impressed on the upper and prominent on the lower 

 face : flowers in a somewhat leafy panicle : peduncles divaricate : calyx-lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate: corolla scarlet (an inch and a half long, the upper lip over half an 

 inch). 



Towards the coast, from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Sterile filament densely yellowish- 

 hcarded bom the apex for some distance downward. 



3. P. corymbosus, Benth Lower than the foregoing, a foot or two high, soft- 

 pubescent or nearly glabrous, leafy to the tip : leaves oblong or oval, obtuse, acute 

 01 acutisb at base, slightly and sparsely denticulate (half an inch to nearly 2 inches 

 long), the veins disposed to be parallel : flowers few or rather numerous in a close 

 corymbiform terminal cyme: calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate : corolla scarlet (an inch 

 lung). — Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exp. 395. 



Shasta Co. to Santa Cruz ; first collected by Coulter (small branches or depauperate spei is 

 but t lie station unknown. Nearly related to the preceding ; the sterile filament about equally 

 bearded above and sparsely so lower down. 



4. P. ternatus, Torr. Glabrous, the long virgate shoots glaucous, 2 to 4 feet 

 high : leaves linear-lanceolate, serrate or denticulate with sharp rigid teeth, all but 

 the uppermost in whorls of three : flowers in a more naked long and narrow virgate 

 panicle: calyx-lobes ovate or broadly lanceolate : corolla pale scarlet (an inch lung, 

 the lobes or lips 3 lines long). — Bot. Mex. Bound. 115. 



Mountains east of San Diego (Parry, Cleveland), and Fort Tejon, Xantus. 



++ ++ Corolla more or less yellow or tinged with purple (half to two thirds of an inch 

 long), <h<- in!,,' inn, h shorter than tin widely gaping lips, of which the upper is arcli- 

 ing and merely notched, and the lower pendulous-recurved. 



5. P. breviflorus, Lindl. Glabrous, 3 to 6 feet high, with long and slender 

 flowering branches, leafy up to the panicle ; leave-s only opposite, lanceolate, some- 

 times ovate-lanceolate, denticulate: peduncles few - several-flowered, racemose- 

 panicled : calyx-lubes ovate-lanceolate and acuminate : corolla yellowish or Besh- 

 colored, striped within with pink, externally especially the upper lip beset with 

 Boine long and rather viscid beard-like hairs; these sometimes on the calyx also : 

 sterile Glameni naked.— Bot. Reg. t. 1946. 



Pry lulls and banks, throughout the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada and the I toast Range. 



C. P. antirrhinoides, I'" nth. Very minutely puberulent or cinereous, or gla- 

 brous, diffusely much branched and spreading, 1 to 5 feet high, very leafy : 1> 

 thickish, spatulate-oblong or oval, entire (seldom half an inch long, not diminishing 

 upwards): peduncles I flowered, terminating leafy paniculate branches and in the 

 upper axils: calyx-lobes roundish-ovate: corolla very broad for its length, pure 

 lemon-yellow: short sterile filament very densely bearded on one side. — Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6157. /'. Lobbii, of the gardens, Qlust. Bort, 1862, t. 315. 



Southern part of the State, not rare about San Diego and San Pascual. Peculiar for its clear 



vi iiow dowi i 



++++++ Corolla flesh-color or purplish (half a,, inch long): tht tuh and t/iroal longer 



than th, slmrt spreading lips. 



7. P. Lemmoni, I (ray. Two to 1 feet high, slender ; the virgate simple branches 

 rather leafy, and whole plant glabrous up to the pedicels; leaves ovale lance, dale. 



