Mimulus. SCROPHULARTACE.E. 275 



Var. bicolor, Gray, 1. c. A doubtful and insufficiently known form ; with throat of 

 corolla short and abruptly dilated, dark purple; the limb yellow. Eunanus bicolor, Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 381. High Sierra Nevada in Fresno Co., Brewer. 



M. Fremonti, Gray, I.e. Leaves narrowly oblong or the lowest spatulate, obtuse: 

 calyx-teeth ovate, obtuse or aeutish (less than a line long), less than a quarter the length of 

 the tube, surpassing the proper tube of the crimson corolla. Eunanus Fremonti, Benth. 

 1. c. California, from Santa Barbara Co. southward and eastward, first coll. by Fremont. 



H- -H- Calvx decidedly oblique at the orifice: the teeth unequal, reaching to the base of the fun- 

 nelform throat of the" corolla : stem rather slender: leaves quite entire. 



M. Parryi, Gray, 1. c. Not pubescent, minutely glandular, 2 to 4 inches high : leaves 

 oblong or oblanceolate, half inch long : teeth of the campanulate calyx acute; the upper 

 and larger one ovate ; the others subulate from a broad base, a third or fourth the length 

 of the tube : corolla yellow or pink, two-thirds inch long: capsule oblong-lanceolate, not 

 surpassing the calyx. St. George, S. Utah, on gravelly hills, Parry. 



M. Torreyi, Gray, 1. c. Viscid-pubescent, a span to a foot high, simple or loosely 

 branching: leaves oblong or almost lanceolate, sometimes an inch long: calyx-teeth all 

 broad and obtuse; the posterior one larger and barely a line long: corolla half to three- 

 fourths inch long, pink-purple : capsule chartaceous, lanceolate-oblong. Eunanus Fremonti, 

 Gray in Pacif. 11. Rep. vi. 83, not Benth. California, through the Sierra Nevada, at 

 4,000 feet and upwards, from Mariposa Co. northward, first coll. by Newberry. 

 1 4 -i Corolla large and wide, an inch or more lonu;, with proper tube very short and included 

 in the calyx: teethljf the latter very unequal: stein simpler and taller: leaves often acutely 

 dentate or denticulate with salient teeth. (Transition to Eumimttlus.) 



M. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. A foot or less high, viscid-pubescent : leaves oblong, an inch 

 or two in length ; the lower surpassing the flowers : teeth of the very oblique calyx lan- 

 ceolate ; the posterior and longer one 3 lines long and half the length of the oblong 

 tube : corolla purple, an inch long, cylindraceous : capsule fusiform-subulate, somewhat 

 coriaceous. M. breripes, Gray in Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 120, not Benth. California, in foot- 

 hills and lower part of the Sierra Nevada. 



M. brevipes, Benth. A foot or two high, very viscid-pubescent: leaves from lanceo- 

 late to linear, 1 to 4 inches long : calyx-teeth very unequal, acuminate ; the posterior fully 

 half the length of the broadly campanulate tube : corolla yellow, sometimes li inches 

 long, and the expanded limb nearly as broad, campanulate, with ample rounded lobes : 

 capsule ovate, acuminate, firm-coriaceous. DC. Prodr. x. 369 ; Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 116. California, from Monterey to San Diego and San Bernardino. 



2. DIPLACUS, Gray. Shrubby, glutinous ; with flowers as of the following 

 and capsule of the preceding section : tube of the funnelform corolla about the 

 length of the narrow prismatic carinate-angled calyx : style glandular : stigma 

 bilamellar: placentae meeting but even in the ovary not united in the axis, in 

 dehiscence borne on the linear firm-coriaceous valves. Diplacus, Nutt. in Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 137 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 368. 



M. glutinosus, "Wendl. Shrub 2 to 6 feet high, nearly glabrous but glutinous : leaves 

 from narrowly oblong to linear, from denticulate to entire (I to 4 inches long), at length 

 with revolute margins : flowers \\ to 2 inches long, short-pedicelled : corolla usually buff 

 or salmon-color, obscurely bilabiate ; the spreading lobes laciniately toothed or notched. 

 Obs. 51; Jacq. Schcenbr. iii. t. 364 ; Gray, I.e. M. aurantiacus, Curt. Bot, Mag. t. 354. 

 Diplacus cjlutinosus & D. latifoUus, Nutt. 1. c. D. stellatus, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 18. 

 Rocky banks, &c., California, common from San Francisco southward. Runs into many 

 varieties, such as 



Var. puniceus, Gray, 1. c. Flowers from orange-red to scarlet, often slcnder-pedi- 

 celled : corolla-lobes commonly obcordate. Dl/>lacus pan/ecus, Nutt. 1. c. ; Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3655. D. glutinosus, var. puniceus, Benth. in DC. 1. c. W. California. 



Var. linearis, Gray, 1. c. Flowers very short-pedicelled, red-brown to salmon- 

 color : calyx commonly pubescent : leaves linear, more rigid, and revolute-margined. M. 

 linearis, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 27. Diplacus leptanthus, Nutt. 1. c. ; Benth. 1. c. From Mon- 

 terey southward. 



