PENTSTE^MON PULCHEL'LUS. 
PRETTY PENTSTEMON. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCBOPHDLARIN®. 
Native of 
Heiglit. 
Flowers in Duration. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
2 feet. 
June, Sept. Perennial. 
in 1826. 
No. 335. 
This generic name has been noriced. Pulchellus, 
from the Latin, signifjdng pretty ; which is quite 
applicable to this species ; but for every Pentstemon 
the same distinction may be claimed. 
Since our publication of Pentstemon atropurpu- 
reus, we have raised numerous seedlings from that 
species; and some of them, in flower, approach Pent- 
stemon pulchellus. They vary considerably in their 
depth of colouring, and somewhat also in shape. 
It has been stated, by some authors, that the seeds 
of no species of Pentstemon will vegetate under the 
influence of artificial heat, an opinion which we men- 
tioned under No. 275, but were not then prepared 
either to verify or contradict it. In March last we 
sowed seeds of the Pentstemon atropurpureus, and 
also of Pentstemon roseus, in pots, and placed them 
in a rather warm hotbed, and many vegetated freely. 
However, after the pots had been removed from the 
hotbed, a further produce of young plants, of each 
species, took place, partially corroborating the opi- 
nion alluded to. The first crop of plants are now, 
November, in full bloom. The second crop remained 
weakly, and were not preserved. 
Bot. Reg. 1138. 
