FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
é These are charming plants, from six 
Chinese Houses . : 
Collinsia bicolor ches to a foot and a half tall, with very 
Purple and white delicately made flowers. The leaves are 
Spring, summer smooth or downy and more or less toothed, 
be ns with rough edges, and the flowers are 
arranged in a series of one-sided clusters along the upper 
part of the stem, which is more or less branching. The 
corollas are about three-quarters of an inch long and vary 
in color, being sometimes all white. In the shady woods 
around Santa Barbara they often have a white upper lip, 
which is tipped with lilac and specked with crimson, and a 
lilac lower lip, and here they are much more delicate in 
appearance than on the sea-cliffs at La Jolla, where they 
grow in quantities among the bushes and are exceedingly 
showy. In the latter neighborhood the flowers are nearly 
an inch long and the upper lip is almost all white and 
marked with a crescent of crimson specks above a magenta 
base, and the lower lip is almost all magenta, with a white 
stripe at the center, the contrast between the magenta 
and white being very striking and almost too crude. The 
arrangement of the flowers is somewhat suggestive of the 
many stories of a Chinese pagoda and the plant is common. 
A very attractive little plant, smooth 
Bicone all over, about six inches tall, with tooth- 
Collinsia : 
multiflora less, light green leaves and pretty flowers, 
Lilac, blue, and each over half an inch long. The upper 
pink petals are pinkish-lilac, the lower petals a 
Supeier peculiar shade of bright blue, and the 
Northwest : ; 
tube is pink; the contrast between the 
blue and pink giving an odd and pretty effect. This grows 
in the woods around Mt. Shasta. 
‘There are many kinds of Scrophularia, most of them 
natives of Europe. They are rank perennial herbs, usually 
with opposite leaves; the corolla with no spur and with 
five lobes, all erect except the lowest one, which is small 
and turned back; the stamens five, four of them with 
anthers and the fifth reduced to a scale under the upper 
lip. These plants are supposed to be a remedy for scrofula. 
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