FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
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One of the handsomest of its kind, a 
Yellow Pelican = fine thrifty plant, but not at all coarse, 
Flower 
pihacar gms and much prettier and more effective 
faucibarbatus than the next. The branching stem is 
pices whitish about a foot tall, and the leaves are very 
pring . ° . f . . 
Cabitartine light, bright yellowish-green, and thin in 
texture. The flowers are about an inch 
long, with very clear bright yellow ‘‘pouches” and 
greenish ‘‘beaks”’ tipped with white. They have a curi- 
ously solid appearance, as if carved out of yellow wax, and 
are very pleasing and fresh in color, harmonizing well with 
the light green bracts, which give a very feathery effect to 
the top of the cluster. Like most of its relations, the 
flowers are more effective when we look down on them, 
‘growing among the grass, than when they are picked and 
we see them in profile. The corollas are sometimes pinkish- 
white. This is common in the valleys cf the Coast Ranges. 
From five to ten inches tall, with a 
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Johany=ta6 slender, downy, purplish stem, often 
Orthocar pus 
eridnthus branching, dull green, downy leaves and 
Yellow purplish-tipped bracts. The sulphur- 
Spring : 
a yellow flowers are usually an inch long. 
with a magenta “‘beak”’ anda very slender, 
white tube. They are pretty and very common on plains. 
A delicate little plant, from five to ten 
inches tall, with a slender, downy, reddish 
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Piak Papcomn stem, hairy, dull green leaves and bracts, 
Flower and very pretty little flowers, nearly an 
Orthocarpus eri- inch long; the corollas varying from almost 
maces var. roseus White to bright pink, but all the same 
Spring shade on one plant, with a little yellow at 
California the center and a maroon-colored “beak.” 
They are deliciously sweet-scented, like 
violets, and grow in dry places. The variety versicolor, 
Popcorn Beauty, has fragrant white flowers. 
This often makes patches of bright 
color. It is from six to twelve inches tall, 
Pink Johnny- 
Yellow Owl’s 
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ees tee with stiff, slender, hairy stems, hairy leaves, 
liteus and pretty bright yellow flowers, nearly 
Yellow half an inch long. This grows in dry 
Summer 
West ote. sunny places as far east as Colorado. 
reaching an altitude of ten thousand feet. 
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