FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
This is an odd-looking plant, from one 
Trailing Snap- = t4 two feet tall, which seems unable to 
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A pee decide whether or not it is a vine, for the 
strictum pedicels of the flowers are exceedingly 
ane slender and twist like tendrils and by their 
pring : ; ; 
i Hea means the plant clings to its neighbors and 
raises its weak stems from the ground, or, 
if it finds no support, it stands almost erect and waves its 
tendrils aimlessly in the air. It is smooth all over, with 
dark green leaves and pretty, bright purplish-blue flowers, 
about half an inch long, with a pale, hairy palate, which 
almost closes the throat. This grows in the South, near 
the sea. A. vdgans is similar and is common farther north 
‘in California, growing on dry open wooded hills or in 
canyons of the Coast Ranges, blooming in summer and 
autumn. 
There are many kinds of Castilleja, almost always 
perennials, usually parasitic on the roots of other plants, 
usually handsome and striking, the conspicuous feature 
being the large leafy bracts, colored like flowers, which 
adorn the upper part of the stem. They usually have 
several stems, springing from woody roots; leaves alternate, 
without leaf-stalks, green below and gradually merging 
above into colored bracts; flowers crowded in terminal 
clusters, mixed with bracts; calyx tubular, flattened, more 
or less cleft in front or behind, or on both sides, the lobes 
sometimes two-toothed, colored like the bracts, enclosing 
the tube of the corolla; corolla less conspicuous and duller 
in color than the calyx, tubular, two-lipped, the lower lip 
short and very small, not inflated, with three small teeth, 
the upper lip long and beaklike, enclosing the four 
stamens and single threadlike style; stigma cap-shaped or 
two-lobed; anther-sacs unequally attached to the filament, 
one by its middle and the other hanging by its tip; capsule 
egg-shaped or oblong, splitting open, containing many 
seeds. These gaudy plants are well named Indian Paint 
Brush, for the flower-cluster and leaf-tips look as if they 
had been dipped in color. Red Feather is also good but 
Painted Cup is rather poor, as there is nothing cup-like 
about. the flower.. They were. named for Castillejo, a 
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