PENTSTE'MON OVA'I'A. 
OVAL-LEAVED PENTSTEMON. 
Class. Order. 
DinVNAMIA. ANGIOSJ'KRMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARINA!. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
4 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial 
in 1827. 
No. 331. 
Pentstemon, see No. 316. Ovata, egg-shaped, a 
term used in allusion to the shape of the root leaves. 
This heaiitiful species of Pentstemon, and nearly 
twenty others, were collected in the years 1 826-7, by 
Mr. David Douglas, who is employed by the London 
Horticultiu-al Society. He was first sent to Ame- 
rica, in the year 1823, and his zeal and industry 
have been fully commensurate with the expectations 
of the Society, whose collection of hardy plants he has 
greatly enriched. 
The Pentstemon ovata may be divided at the root 
for increase ; but to render this practice the more 
available, in consequence of the young offsets being 
mostly produced immediately at the surface of the 
soil, it is requisite that they be occasionally moulded 
up, to cause their emission of roots ; or they will, 
sometimes, be found merely as branches of the pa- 
rent stem, similar to the bottom shoots of the carna- 
tion. Should this not have been previously attended 
to, and is requisite in autumn, it may then be per- 
formed, and the offsets will throw out roots in the 
spring ; after which they may bo divided, and pUmted 
out for flowering. It may also be raised from seeds. 
Bot. Mag. 2903. 
