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limb almost equally lobed, the lobes entire: seed ovate, 

 marked as in the last species. — Bull. Cal. Acad. I. 10. M. 

 dentatus, var. gracilis, Gray, Bot. Gazette, VII. 112. 



Common in dry rocky places of the Sierra, from 4,000 to 

 8,000 ft. In the collections of Bolander, Kellogg and others, 

 this species occurs abundantly, and is named "31. moscha- 

 tus," being confounded with the last species. 



M. primuloides, Benth. 



Dwarf, spreading by bulbiferous stolons; white-villous to 

 nearly glabrous, slimy: leaves cuneate-obovate to linear-ob- 

 long, I — 1 inch long, obtuse, with sharp teeth, or almost 

 entire, either flat upon the ground, subtending the long, fili- 

 form, scapose peduncle, or arranged in pairs a half inch or 

 more apart on a slender stem 1 — 4 inches high, which has 

 a single terminal peduncle and sometimes an axillary 

 one near the base : calyx-teeth short, acute, equal: corolla 

 5 — I inch long, golden-yellow; the funnelform throat often 

 copper-colored; limb ample, spreading, its lobes all emar- 

 ginate and much alike: seed ovate-oblong, faintly reticula- 

 ted, the meshes running in longitudinal lines. — Hegel, Gar- 

 tenfl. 1872. t. 739; Gray, Bot. Cal. I. 569; Syn. Fl. 279. 



One of the most elegant plants of the Sierras at 6,000 — 

 10,000 feet altitude; usually growing in broad, matted 

 patches in wet, grassy ground, its one-flowered scapes and 

 nearly regular corolla readily suggestive of the genus Prim- 

 ula. The white-villous form is rare in collections, and when 

 growing with the other, looks like another species, but in 

 floral character, there is no difference between them. A 

 single specimen in the herbarium of Mr. Rattan, without a 

 label, is wholly glabrous, with leaves crenate-toothed, rather 

 than serrate, and the corolla seems as if it might have been 

 decidedly bilabiate. 



-;- -^ -^- Annuals. 



++ Calyx ribbed rather than angled: corolla strongly bilabiate; 

 the upper lip lohite. 



