248 Class XIV. Order II. 



262. MIMULUS. 



MIMULUS RINGENS. L. Monkey Flower. 



Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, sessile ; 

 peduncles longer than the flower. Willd. 



A handsome plant, fond of wet soils, where it attains the 

 height of two feet and upward. Stem erect, smooth, angular. 

 Leaves opposite, closely sessile, ovate-lanceolate, serrate, acute. 

 Peduncles axillary, quadrangular, curving upward. Calyx 

 tubular, with five acute angles and as many pointed teeth. 

 Corolla twice as long as the calyx, pale purple with the palate 

 yellow, upper lip reflexed at the sides, lower lip much larger, 

 irregularly three lobed. Lower stamens longer than the upper. 

 Style clavate ; stigma bifid, membranous. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



263. CHELONE. 



CHELONE GLABRA. L. Snake-Head. 



Glabrous ; leaves oval or lanceolate, unequally ser- 

 rate ; flowers spiked. Mich. 



Found in brooks and wet ground, where it forms bunches, 

 and rises two or three feet. Stem smooth, bluntly four corner- 

 ed. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, acuminate, dark green and 

 polished above. Flowers in a terminal spike, a few only ex- 

 panding at once. Calyx nearly sessile, with five short, rounded 

 segments, calyculated with three similar scales at base. Corolla 

 large, white, inflated, contracted at the mouth, not unlike the 

 head of a serpent ; the lower lip in three small segments, with 

 two woolly stripes within. Filaments hairy below. Anthers 

 entangled together by a woolly covering. A short, smooth 

 rudiment of a fifth filament is found between the two upper 

 stamens. Style long, slender, curving downward. Roxbury, 

 Cambridge. August, September. Perennial. 



