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ing a foot or less, and rooting at the joints: leaves oblong- 

 ovate, an inch long, equaling the pedicels, distinctly petio- 

 late: corolla a half inch long, pale yellow: seed globular, 

 yellow. — Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1118; Benth. 1 c; Gray, 1. c. 

 excl. var. longiflorm. 



The mnsk plant of the gardens and green houses : native 

 of British Columbia and parts eastward. Not found in Cal- 

 ifornia. 



M. inodorus. 



Villous and slimy but wholly scentless; stems 1 — 3 feet 

 long, weak and decumbent, but not creeping or rooting: 

 leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, remotely and sharply 

 toothed or entire, 1 — 3 inches long, closely sessile by a 

 broad base : peduncles hardly equaling the leaves, slender, 

 divaricate or deflexed in fruit: calyx oblique; the lanceolate 

 teeth unequal, the longer half the length of the tube: corolla 

 an inch long, deep yellow; throat funnelform-enlarged; limb 

 a little bilabiate, its spreading lobes rounded and entire: 

 seed globular, flattened at the ends, white, strongly favose- 

 reticulate. — ill. moschcdus, Grav, Bot. Cal. I. 569, not of 

 Dougl. M. moschcdus, var. longiflorus, Gray, Syn. Fl. 278. 



Common in both the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada, 

 throughout California, and also in Oregon. Quite distinct 

 from the true musk plant, being of more than twice the size, 

 scentless, and possibly only annual; certainly never rooting 

 at the joints. 



M. moniliformis, Greene. 



Villous or glabrous, scentless, and neither viscid nor 

 slimy; stems slender, erect, 3 — 8 inches high, simple or 

 branching from the base; subterranean shoots bearing mon- 

 ilif orm strings of small tubers : leaves ovate to oblong, acute, 

 their margins prominently toothed, an inch in length, very 

 short-petioled: calyx-teeth triangular-lanceolate, acute, 

 nearly equal: corolla an inch long, bright yellow; the cylin- 

 draceous throat with a pair of folds beneath on the outside; 



