98 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



(Ence. — Corolla with usually a long filiform tube much exserted 

 beyond the calyx; upper lip larger than the lower: capsule cartil- 

 aginous, indehiscenl, shorter than the calyx, obtuse, gibbous at 

 base. 



Dwarf annuals, hardly viscid, nearly glabrous, flowering in 

 early spring, occurring only in the middle and northern sections 

 of the State, and on moist ground. (Enoe, Gray in Bentli. PI. 

 Hartw. 329, name only. Mimulus \ (Enoe, Gray, Bot. Cal. 

 I. 563. 



E- Douglasii, Beuth. 



Stem J — H inches high, very leafy: leaves rhombic-ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, | — -1 inch long, 3 — 5-nerved at base, 

 crenate-toothed or almost entire: corolla 1 — 1| inches long, 

 its slender tube thrice the length of the calyx; throat urceo- 

 late, the lower portion being abruptly enlarged, the orifice 

 contracted; upper lip of the two broad, eivct lobes, the lower 

 of a single, small, triangular tooth, the two lateral lobes 

 wholly obsolete: capsule tough-cartilaginous, semi-transpar- 

 ent, indehiscent, long-ovate, ^ inch long, obtuse, strongly 

 compressed, very gibbous; the sharp-edged posterior part 

 twice the width of the obtuse anterior portion: seeds large, 

 ovate, acute, granular-muriculate. DC. Prod. X. 374, in 

 part. The description of the corolla "labio superiore 4 lin. 

 longo, inferiore vix 1 lin. longo, brevissime et late sinuato- 

 lobato," proves that the author was viewing a corolla of E. 

 Kelloggii, Curran, which has by nearly all authors down to 

 the present, been confounded with the plant of Douglas. — 

 Mimulus nanus, var. subuniflorus, Hook, it Arn. Bot. Beech. 

 378. ill. atropurpureus, Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. I. 59. 

 M. Douglasii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. XI. 95. Bot. Cal. 1. c. 

 Syn. Fl. 274, in part only: for Dr. Gray's description of the 

 fruit is plainly drawn from that of E. Kelloggii. 



A beautiful dwarf, flowering and fruiting as early as March ; 

 found on plains and damp hill sides all the way from the 

 coast to the base of the Sierra Nevada. The corolla with its 

 very long tube, pitcher-shaped throat, and to all appearance 



