FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
A bushy plant, from two to five feet 
Yawning high, with many smooth, slender branches, 
Pentstomon. terminating in long loose clusters of 
Pentstémon 
iecsidiras flowers. The leaves are smooth, rather 
Flesh-color dark green, the lower ones sharply toothed, 
Summer and the flowers are three-quarters of an 
California 
inch long; the corolla flesh-color, tipped 
with pink, with some purple lines on the lower lip, and 
some fine white hairs on the upper; the buds yellow, tipped 
with dark red. These flowers are too dull in color to be 
effective, but they are sweet-smelling and have ridiculous 
faces with widely yawning mouths. This is quite common 
. in Yosemite, forming large clumps on open rocky slopes, 
Indians use the tough stems for making baskets. 
Exceedingly handsome, with smooth, 
Scarlet pale green stems, two feet or more tall, 
eee and smooth, rather bluish-green leaves, 
Pentstémon : ’ : 
Térreyi with slightly rippled edges. The corolla 
Red is an inch and a quarter long, vivid scarlet, 
Summer paler inside, strongly’ two-lipped, with 
Arizona 
long, conspicuous stamens, with pale 
yellow anthers, the style remaining on the tip of the cap- 
sule like a long purple thread. This makes splendid clumps 
of gorgeous color and is common on the rim of the Grand 
Canyon. 
There are a number of kinds of Collinsia, natives of 
North America, with the leaves opposite or in whorls; the 
flowers single or in whorls; the calyx five-cleft; the corolla 
irregular, with a short tube and two-lipped; the upper lip 
two-cleft and more or less erect, the lower lip larger and 
three-lobed, the side lobes spreading or drooping, the middle 
lobe keel-like and folded together and enclosing the two 
pairs of stamens and the threadlike style, which has a 
small round-top or two-lobed stigma. The fifth stamen is 
represented by a minute gland on the upper side of the 
corolla tube near the base. The form of the flowers some- 
what suggests those of the Pea Family. If we pull the 
lower lip apart we find the odd little crevice in which the 
stamens are concealed. 
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