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The earliest specimen of this plant in our herbarium was 

 collected some thirty years ago lyy Mr. Lobb. This speci- 

 men did not come to light until after Mrs. Curran had, in 

 1884, obtained a fine lot of the same thing near Tehachapi, 

 and had named the species as new. It is a close relation of 

 the next still more recently discovered species. 



M. exigUUS, Gray. 



Very slender, two or three inches high and almost glab- 

 rous, diffusely branching: leaves 2 — 3 lines long, somewhat 

 spatulate, often sparsely denticulate, sessile: peduncles ca- 

 pillar}", greatly elongated: calyx short- campanulate, subtur- 

 binate, equally 5-toothed, not angled, scarcely nerved, 11 

 lines long; the purple corolla nearly twice as long: capsule 

 ovate, a little exceeding the calyx. — Proc. Am. Acad. XX. 

 307. 



Mountains of Lower California, C. E. Orcutt, 1884. 



§ 4. Mimuloides, Watson. Calyx short, 5-cfoft, neither 

 angled nor nerved: capsule with attenuate apex and divided pla- 

 centae of Eunanus. Herpestis, § Mimuloides, Benth. 



M. pilosUS, Watson. 



Bot. King, 225; Gray, Bot. Cal. 1. c. and Syn. Fl. 1. c. 

 M. exilis, Dur. & Hilg. Pac. K. Rep. VI. t. 12. Herpestis 

 pihsd, Benth. Comp. Bot. Mag. 257. 



A soft-hairy, pale-green, Californian annual, uniting the 

 characters partly of Herpestis and partly of Eananus, with 

 a habit which is not that of either of those genera, nor 

 yet of MimuLus. Very likely it were better disposed of as 

 a generic type, as was long ago suggested, but not carried 

 into effect, by Durand & Hilgard. 



Obscure Species. 



M. Scouleri, Hook. 



Fl. Bor. Am. II. 100, is said to differ from 31. luteus chiefly 

 by its narrower leaves. It can hardly fall under any of the 

 species above described. Whatever it be, it ought to be re- 



