[Sidenote: =Alpine Betony=
_Pediculàris centranthèra_
=Magenta and white
Spring
Utah, Ariz., New Mex.=]
This grows in dry rocky soil at high altitudes, forming a low clump
of pretty bronze-colored leaves, cut into many small crinkled lobes,
and giving the effect of stiff little ferns, with a short spike of
oddly pretty flowers, each over an inch long, with a purplish, hairy
calyx and a corolla with a white tube and magenta lips, the anthers
projecting like sharp little teeth from under the arching upper lip.
_P. semibarbàta_, growing in dry woods in Yosemite, forms a rosette of
crinkled bronze foliage, with short spikes of yellow flowers.
[Sidenote: =Elephants' Heads, Butterfly-tongue=
_Pediculàris Groenlándica_
=Pink
Summer
West, etc.=]
A handsome plant, with quaint flowers. The smooth, slender, purplish
stem is a foot or more tall, with a few alternate leaves, and springs
from a cluster of smooth, fern-like foliage, much like that of _P.
ornithorhyncha_, often tinged with bronze, and bears a long, crowded
spike of many flowers. They are slightly fragrant, about three-quarters
of an inch long, with purplish calyxes and deep pink or reddish
corollas, which look absurdly like little elephants' heads. This grows
in the mountains, across the continent.