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FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
The Spanish name, which means “‘little 
broom,”’ is very appropriate for this pretty 
Clover ‘ ° 
Orthocbebals plant. The stiff, downy stem is from five 
densiflorus to fifteen inches tall and the downy leaves 
Putplish-pink are light green and become tipped with 
Seniag Os purplish-pink as they mount up the stalk. 
California 
The flowers are about three-quarters of an 
inch long and have a white lower lip, which is tipped with 
yellow and hasacrimson dot on each lobe, and the straight, 
erect ‘‘beak” is crimson. The cluster is crowded with 
purplish-pink and white bracts and though the flowers 
themselves are not conspicuous the effect is feathery and 
very pretty, especially when the plants grow in such 
_ quantities as to color a whole field with soft pink, or when 
mixed with beautifully contrasting patches of blue Lupine. 
This is common along the coast. O. purpurdscens, 
common in the Northwest and Southwest, is similar, but 
it has a hairy ‘‘beak,’’ hooked at the tip, and the general 
effect is handsomer and much brighter in color, but less 
feathery. 
Escobita, Owl’s 
Owl’s Clover An interesting annual plant, quite 
Orthocarpus pur- Pretty, about a foot high, the stem some- 
pureo-dlbus times branching and the branches suggest- 
Pink and white jing those of a candelabrum, clothed with 
(aa soft, finely divided, dull green leaves and 
New Mex. ending in spikes of green bracts and 
pretty little flowers, three-quarters of an 
inch long. The calyx is green, the upper lip of the corolla 
is purplish-pink and the lower lip is swollen, three-lobed 
and cream-white, turning pink in fading. ‘This grows 
in dry places at altitudes of from six to eight thousand 
feet. Only one of the branches is given in the picture. 
Outs Cla A pretty little plant, from six to eight 
Or thorar tam inches high, with hairy leaves cut into 
exsértus narrow divisions and passing into pinkish- 
White and pink lilac bracts towards the top of the stalk, 
a tat which are mixed with pink and white 
flowers, each about an inch long, so that 
the effect of the whole is a spike of pink and white. The 
lower lip of the corolla is white and the upper lip is pink, 
with a furry tip. This grows in fields. O. attenudtus, 
common in fields in the Northwest, is a slender inconspicu- 
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