278 SCROPIIULARIACE.E. Mimulus. 



= = Cauline leaves mainly closely sessile by a broad base. 



M. inconspicuus, Gray. Glabrous, 2 to 7 inches high, simple or bra.nched from the 

 base: leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, somewhat 3-5-nerved (quarter to half inch 

 long) : pedicels as long as flower : corolla 5 lines long, with rather small limb, yellow 

 or rose-color : fructiferous calyx oval, 4 or 5 lines long, appearing as if truncate ; the 

 teeth very short. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 120, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. Damp hillsides or rocks, 

 Los Angeles to the Sacramento, California, B'ujdow, &c. 



== = == Cauline leaves sessile or nearly so by a narrowed obscurely 3-nerved base: plants 

 minutely viscid-pubescent or glandular, erect, branched from the base, from 2 to 10 inches high. 



M. bicolor, Benth.. Viscid-pubescent : leaves lanceolate or linear-oblong, sometimes 

 spatulate, mostly denticulate, an inch long or less; the upper shorter than the pedicels : 

 corolla half to three-fourths inch long, with ample limb, yellow, or lower lip commonly 

 white : calyx narrowly oblong, pui-ple-dotted, in fruit 4 lines long ; the teeth comparatively 

 large (a line long), triangular, acute. PL Hartw. 323; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 568. M. 

 Prattenii, Durand in Jour. Acad. Philad. n. ser. ii. 98. California, through the foot-hills of 

 the Sierra Nevada. 



M. Palmeri, Gray. Viscid, but hardly at all pubescent : leaves lanceolate or the lower 

 spatulate, mostly entire, half inch or so long, all shorter than the filiform pedicels : 

 corolla nearly three-fourths inch long, ample-funnelform, crimson, thrice the length of the 

 calyx ; the lobes all about equal and equally spreading : fructiferous calyx 3 or 4 lines 

 long, narrowly oblong; the teeth broad and obtuse. Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 82. S. E. 

 California, on the Mohavc River, Palmer, Parry & Lcmmon. Corolla in shape and color as 

 of the Eniianits section, foliage, aspect, and capsule of the present group. 



M. rubellus, Gray. Viscid and sometimes pubescent : leaves from spatulate-oblong to 

 linear, entire, rarely with a few salient teeth, a quarter to two-thirds inch long, commonly 

 equalling the pedicels ; the lower sometimes obovate or ovate : corolla 3 or 4 lines long, 

 from one-third to twice the length of the calyx, yellow or rose-color, sometimes yellow 

 varying or changing to crimson-purple: fructiferous calyx oblong, 3 lines long; its teeth 

 mostly short and obtuse. Bot. Mex. Bound. 116, & Bot. Calif. I.e.; Watson, Bot. 

 King, 225. M. i/umtioides, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 380, in part. Gravelly moist banks, 

 Washington Terr, to Arizona, Colorado, and E. New Mexico, chiefly in the mountains. 



Var. latiflorus, ^ATatson, 1. c. Stems an inch or two high : leaves from linear to 

 oblanceolate : corolla yellow, half to two-thirds inch long, with slender exserted tube, funnel- 

 form throat spotted with brown-purple, and comparatively large limb, resembling that of 

 M. bicolor. .!/. montioides, Gray, 1. c., mainly. W. Nevada, on the eastern side of the 

 Sierra Nevada, &c., Anderson, &c. Adopted in this form in Bot. Calif. 1. c. ; but probably 

 a distinct species. 



H H Leafy-stemmed, villous and viscid, diffuse : leaves membranaceous, more or less pinnately- 

 veined and pttioled, denticulate or serrate : corolla narrow, light yellow: calyx slightly if at all 

 oblique; the teeth nearly equal. 



M. floribundus, Dougl. About a span high from an annual root, flowering from 

 almost the lowest axils, at first erect, the lateral branches diffusely spreading: leaves 

 ovate and the lower subcordate, an inch long or less; the upper shorter than the some- 

 what racemose pedicels : calyx short-campanulate, becoming ovate or oblong and truncate 

 in fruit, 3 or 4 lines long ; the teeth short and triangular : corolla 3 to hardly 6 lines long, 

 about twice the length of the calyx: capsule globose-ovate, obtuse. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 

 1125; Benth. in DC. I.e. 372; Gray, 1. c. AA. peduncdaris, Dougl. in Benth. Scroph. Ind. 

 29. Capmria pusilla, Torr. in Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. 36. Moist soil, Rocky Mountains of 

 Colorado and Wyoming to California and Oregon. 



M. moschatus, Dougl. (MusK PLANT.) More villous and viscous, musk-scented: 

 stems spreading and creeping, thus perennial, a foot or so long: leaves oblong-ovate, an 

 inch or two long, mostly exceeding the pedicels : calyx short-prismatic, oblong-campanu- 

 late in fruit, 4 or 5 lines long; the teeth half the length of the tube, broadly lanceolate 

 and acuminate, somewhat unequal: corolla usually two-thirds inch long and barely twice 

 the length of the calyx: capsule ovate, acute. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1118; Benth. 1. c. ; 

 Gray, 1. c. Wet places, along brooks, British Columbia to California and Utah. 



Var. longiflorus. Corolla elongated, reaching an inch in length, thrice the length 

 of the calyx: later peduncles surpassing the leaves. The usual form in California, also 

 in Oregon. 



