FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
smooth, stiffish, and thickish. The flowers are an inch 
and a quarter long, with a rather sticky calyx and bright 
carmine-pink corolla, moderately two-lipped, with a patch 
of white hairs on the lower lip; the stamens protruding, 
with conspicuous, white, woolly anthers, and the style 
remaining on the tip of the capsule like a long purple 
thread. This is slightly sweet-scented and is common 
around Yosemite. The alpine form is less than four inches 
high, with larger, lilac flowers and toothless leaves. 
This is a rather pretty shrub, about four 
Bushy Beard- feet high, with pale woody branches, 
ee purplish twigs, and many, small, rich 
antirrhinoides green leaves. The flowers have a glossy, 
Yellow bright green calyx and a yellow corolla, 
=e which is three-quarters of an inch long, 
California 
streaked with dull-red outside and slightly 
hairy, the sterile stamen hairy and yellow. 
This has a smooth stem and smooth, 
Variable toothless leaves, but is very variable both 
a in form and color, for the typical plant, 
Pentstémon £ O d the Roskae se 
sceaieeras rom Oregon and the ocky Mountains, 
Yellow, blue, has yellow flowers, but in Yosemite the 
purple variety caerileo-purpireus always has 
Summer 
eee blue or purple flowers, but the plants vary 
Cal. in general appearance. In good soil, 
such as the floor of the Valley, the stem is 
sometimes two feet tall and the flowers are about half an 
inch long, grouped in whorls along the stem, but at high 
altitudes the plant shrinks to a few inches in height. 
These wands of flaming scarlet are 
Cardinal conspicuous along the trails in the Grand 
oe Canyon and are exceedingly beautiful, 
enislemon ° wats ° 
Pir very graceful in form and vivid in color. 
Scarlet The smooth, purplish, somewhat leafy 
Spring stems, from one and a half to two feet 
Arizona 
- tall, spring from a clump of rather small 
leaves, which are toothless, smooth, and rather light green 
in color. The flowers are three-quarters of an inch long, 
the corolla with five rounded lobes and very slightly two- 
lipped, and look something like Scarlet Bugler, but are 
smaller and more delicate, and are sometimes mistaken for 
Cardinal Flowers by people from the East. 
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