PENTSTE'MON LATIFO'LIUS. 
BROAD-LEAVED PENTSTEMON. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARIACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
1 Duration. 
Introduced 
California 
2 feet. 
August. 
1 Perennial. 
in 1836. 
No. 882. 
For the derivation of Pentstemon, see No. 866. 
Of all the genera which ornament the open 
department of the British Flower Garden, there is 
probably none which has received more ample 
extension than Pentstemon. A few of the species, 
it is true, will not bear exposure to severe winters ; 
but their propagation, by cuttings, and some by 
division, is so very easy, that no difficulty would 
arise in keeping up a nearly perfect collection. 
The chief care required by them, when under»winter 
protection, whether they are kept in a cold frame, 
or in a spare room in the dwelling-house, is that 
the pots of earth which contain the roots, be kept 
rather dry. An entire collection would be interest- 
ing. 
The species, latifolius, has not, we believe, been 
hitherto published, although it was introduced into 
Great Britain in 1836. It is nearly allied to digi- 
talis, but is a more free flowerer than that species. 
This is a perfectly hardy plant, when grown in 
the open garden, in light soil, and a dry situation. 
It may be divided at the root, or raised from seeds, 
which it generally ripens. 
