FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
This is very much like the last in every 
Pentstemon ; 
Peuistteacns way, except the color of its flowers. The 
Wrightii leaves are smooth and thickish, bluish- 
Pink, purple green, with a “bloom,” the lower ones 
raed with a few irregular, blunt teeth, or with 
wavy margins, and the flowers, which are 
the same shape and size as the last, are deep, bright 
pink, with a magenta line on each lobe and some white 
hairs on the lower lip. The filaments are purple, with 
whitish anthers, and the fifth stamen resembles a tiny 
brush, with yellow bristles on the upper side and pointing 
into the throat. The whole effect of the graceful flower- 
_ cluster is bright, beautiful, and conspicuous, growing among 
the rocks, on hillsides and in canyons. 
This is very beautiful and varied in 
Pentstemon 4 ° . 
Pentst?mon laétus Color and is the commonest kind in Yose- 
Blue, purple mite, from one to two feet high, with rough- 
Summer ish, toothless leaves and several slender, 
California 
erect, somewhat hairy branches, ending in 
long loose clusters of flowers. The corollas are an inch 
long, and vary from deep bright blue through all shades 
of violet to deep pink, with two white ridges in the throat, 
and with two white anthers visible and two purple ones 
hidden in the throat. The flowers’ faces have a quaint, 
wide-awake expression. This grows on dry rocky slopes 
and is often mistaken for P. heterophyllus, which is rather 
common in open places in the Coast Ranges. P. linarioides, 
blooming in late summer at the Grand Canyon, is some- 
what similar, but the flowers are smaller and more delicate, 
and the leaves are smooth, small, and narrow. 
Very beautiful, from two to three feet 
Scarlet Bugl : : : 
Sgeeneen eT gh; with purplish stems, smooth leaves, 
Pentstémon Eatoni 
‘Red and flowers an inch long, with a bright 
Spring scarlet, funnel-shaped corolla, not much 
Ariz., Utah 
two-lipped, the stamens not protruding. 
These graceful wands of vivid color are conspicuous in the 
Grand Canyon. P. centranthifélius, common in Califor- — 
nia, is similar, the corolla less two-lipped, and has very 
smooth, thickish leaves. P. Bridgésii, found in Yosemite, 
is similar, but the corolla is decidedly two-lipped. 
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