FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
This is a very handsome kind, from two 
Paint Brush ‘ 
Castilléja miniata tO four feet tall, with a smooth stem, and 
Red smooth leaves, which are not crinkled, 
Summer toothed, or lobed, and with more or less 
Northwest 
hairy bracts, which are beautifully tinted 
with many shades of pink, red, and purple. This is a 
magnificent plant, especially when we find it growing 
along irrigation ditches, among blue Lupines, yellow Mimu- 
jus and other bright flowers, where the combinations of 
color are quite wonderful, and it is the handsomest and 
commonest sort around Yosemite, where it grows in mead- 
ows and moist places, from the foothills nearly up to 
timber-line. 
This is not quite so large or handsome as 
the last, but gives much the effect of a 
Brush : : F 
Castilleja brush dipped in red paint, for the yellow- 
pinetorum ish bracts are beautifully tipped with 
Red and yellow scarlet and the flowers are also bright red. 
— The rough stem is a foot or more tall, the 
Cal., Oreg. : 
roughish dark green leaves are not toothed 
or lobed, but have crinkled edges, and the bracts usually 
have three lobes. These plants grow in the mountains and 
often make bright patches of color in the landscape. 
This is very variable, and is usually 
Scarlet Paint 
Paint Brush : : : 
ea about a foot high, with several hairy 
angustifolia stems, springing from a long yellow root. 
Red The leaves are slightly rough, but not 
Spring, summer 
Utah., Nev. coarse, with fine white hairs along the 
margins, and light gray-green in color, 
the lowest ones not lobed, a few of the upper ones with two 
lobes, but most of the leaves, and the bracts, slashed into 
three lobes. The calyx is covered with white hairs, and 
the upper lip of the corolla is bright green. The whole 
plant is most beautiful and harmonious in color, not coarse 
like many Castillejas, and the upper part is clothed with 
innumerable delicate yet vivid tints of salmon, rose, and 
deep pink, shading to scarlet and crimson, forming a 
charming contrast to the quiet tones of the lower foliage. 
This grows in gravelly soil, on dry plains and hillsides, and 
the clumps of bloom are very striking among the sage- 
brush. 
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