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SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



Erect; branches spreading; leaves ovate; flowers i' long. 

 Diffuse ; leaves nearly orbicular ; flowers about 6" long. 

 Plant villous and viscid, diffuse, musk-scented. 



3. M. Langsdorffii. 



4. M. Geyeri. 



5. M. moschatus. 



i. Mimulus ringens L. Square-stemmed 

 Monkey-flower. Fig. 3775. 



Mimulus ringens L. Sp. PI. 634. 1753. 



Glabrous, perennial by rootstocks ; stem erect, 4-sided 

 or somewhat 4-winged, usually much branched, i-3 

 high. Leaves oblong, lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, 

 pinnately veined, acuminate or acute at apex, serrate, 

 auriculate-clasping at the base, or the lower merely 

 sessile, 2'-4' long, J'-i' wide; peduncles slender, i'-2' 

 long in fruit, 2-4 times as long as the calyx; calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate-subulate ; corolla violet, rarely white, 

 about i' long, the throat narrow, exceeding the calyx ; 

 base of lower lip puberulent within ; fruiting calyx 

 oblong, 6"-8" long; seeds oblong, minute, reticulated. 



In swamps and along streams, Nova Scotia to Vir- 

 ginia, Tennessee, Manitoba, Nebraska and Texas. As- 

 cends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. June-Sept. 



2. Mimulus alatus Soland. Sharp-winged 

 Monkey-flower. Fig. 3776. 



Mimulus alatus Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 361. 

 1789. 



Similar to the preceding species, glabrous; stem 

 sharply 4-angled, the angles more or less winged. 

 Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or oblong, acute 

 or acuminate at the apex, dentate-serrate, nar- 

 rowed at the base, petioled, 2'-s' long, g"-i8" 

 wide; petioles i'-l' long, narrowly margined; 

 peduncles stout, shorter than the calyx; corolla 

 violet, i' long; calyx-teeth short, broad, abruptly 

 mucronulate; seeds smooth. 



In swamps, Ontario to Connecticut, Illinois, Kan- 

 sas, Georgia and Texas. June-Sept. 



3. Mimulus Langsdorffii Donn. 

 Langsdorff's Yellow Monkey- 

 flower. Fig. 3777. 



Mimulus Langsdorffii Donn ; Sims. Bot. Mag. 



pi. 1501. 1812. 

 Mimulus guttatus DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 127. 



1818. 



Perennial by stolons, glabrous or puberu- 

 lent; stem rather stout, simple or branched; 

 branches spreading. Leaves ovate to obo- 

 vate, dentate or denticulate, obtuse at the 

 apex, rounded, narrowed or cordate at the 

 base, i '-3' long, the lower short-petioled, 

 the upper smaller, sessile or clasping; pe- 

 duncles shorter than or equalling the flow- 

 ers; calyx oblique; corolla yellow, i'-2' 

 long, the lower lip bearded at the base, 

 often blotched with red or purple; fruiting 

 calyx about i' long; seeds longitudinally 

 striate. 



In wet meadows, Norfolk, Conn., and south- 

 ern New York. Introduced from California. 

 Summer. 



