
FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
This is perhaps the most beautiful of 
all the Pentstemons, with several smooth, 
stoutish, pale green, leafy stems, from one 
Blue Pentstemon, 
Beard-tongue 
Pentstémon 
cyanénthus to two feet tall and smooth, pale bluish- 
Blue green leaves, with more or less “‘bloom,”’ 
Spring, summer 
Utah, Ariz., Wyo. toothless and thickish, the upper ones 
somewhat clasping. The flowers are not 
hairy or sticky, and are over an inch long, forming a hand- 
some cluster about eight inches long. The sepals are 
narrow and pointed, the corolla is tinted with various 
beautiful shades of blue and purple, often with a white 
throat and blue lobes, or with a pink throat and deep blue 
lobes, the sterile filament has a thickened, more or less 
hairy, yellow tip, and the pale yellow anthers are more or 
‘less hairy. This plant is beautiful in every way, for the 
foliage is fine in form and color and the flowers are bril- 
liantly variegated, yet harmonious and graceful. This 
grows on hillsides and in mountain valleys, at rather high 
altitudes, and used to be common and conspicuous on the 
‘“‘benches”’ around the Salt Lake Valley, but it is gradually 
being exterminated by sheep. It thrives and improves 
when transplanted into gardens. P. acumindtus is similar, 
but the cluster is looser and the flowers often pink and pur- 
ple. It forms fine patches of color at the Grand Canyon. 
A handsome shrub, with much the 
Honeyauelie general appearance of a Honeysuckle, 
Pentstemon : 
Piaisioneie woody below, with long slender branches 
cordifélius and pretty heart-shaped leaves. The 
Red flowers are often in pairs and are each an 
a inch and a half long, with bright scarlet 
California 
corollas, conspicuously two-lipped, the 
stamens protruding, and form large clusters towards 
the ends of the branches. This grows in light shade in 
the woods and trails its long branches and garlands of 
bright flowers over the neighboring shrubs and trees. 
A beautiful little shrub, making splen- 
Jiasihelieas did patches of vivid color on high bare 
mountain toca th +83 1s 4 
ae ae rocks in the mountains, where it is very 
Newbérryi conspicuous, hanging over the edges of 
Pink, lilac  - inaccessible ledges. The stems are woody 
Suter below and very branching, about a foot 
California 
high, and the leaves are usually toothed, 
480 
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