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MlMULUS LUTEUS. LaNGSDORFf's 

 MlMULUS. 



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Clqfs and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. prifmaticus, 5-dentatus. Cor. ringens : labio fuperiore la- 

 teribusreplicato. Stigma craffum. Cap/, bilocularis, polyfperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



MlMULUS luteus ; foliis fuborbiculatis multi-nervofis, ftoloni- 



bus reptantibus. 

 MlMULUS luteus ; rcpens, foliis ovatis. Sp. PL 884. 

 MlMULUS luteus. Willi. Sp, Pi. 3. 361. PerfoonSyn. 2. p. 163. 

 GRATIOLA foliis fubrotundis nervofis, floribus luteis, ivw/7/. 



iWz\ 2. />. 745. /. 54. 



This beautiful fpccies of Mimulus was found by Dr. 

 Langsdorff, who was attached, as naturalift, to the Ruffian 

 embafTy to China. He brought it, as we are informed, from 

 Unafhka, one of the Fox JfJands, and feeds were tranfmitted to 

 Mr. Hunnemann laft: fpring, and through him to Mr. Donn, 

 curator of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, who kindly com- 

 municated to us in July laft the fpecimen from which our draw- 

 ing was made, under the name of Mimulus Langsdorfii, which 

 we fliould have adopted, had it proved, as was fuppofed, a new 

 difcovery. But the fame fpecies was found in Chili, by Father 

 Feu 1 l lee, and has been long ago defcribed and figured in 

 his work, as above quoted. From him Lixnmus inferted it 

 in his Species Plantarum, with the fpecific name of luteus. It was 

 found alfo in California and at Nootka, by Mr. Archibald 

 Menzies. 



We received the fame from Mr. ByCHANANj Nurferyman, 



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