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volucral bracts narrower and less striate; pappus fully equal- 

 ing the flowers. Southeastern borders of California, and 

 adjacent Arizona. 



B. atriplicifolia. Carphephorus alriplicifoliu9, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. v. 

 159; Bot. Cal. 1. c. and Syn. Fl. 1. c. 



MIMETANTHE, Scrophularinearum. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, the tube somewhat 5-sulcate, 

 neither angled nor ribbed; lobes unequal, the uppermost 

 largest. Corolla tubular-funnelform. Stamens 4, didyna- 

 mous. Style glabrous; stigma bilamellar. Capsule oblong- 

 ovate, rather acuminate, equaling the calyx, not gibbous at 

 base, minutely glandular, chartaceous, dehiscent by the 

 whole of the upper suture, by the lower only to the base of the 

 apical acumination, both valves in dehiscence strongly re- 

 flexed in so far as separated; placentae borne on the middle 

 of the valves, many seeded. Seed minute, oblong-ovate, 

 yellowish, under the microscope favose-reticulate and glan- 

 dular. Herpestis. § Mimuloides, Benth., in DC. Prod, x, 

 394; Gray, Bot. Cal. i, 569; Syn. Fl. 279; Greene, Bull. Cal. 

 Acad, iii, 122. A villous and glandular annual of the Pacific 

 Coast, with a sickening, solanaceous odor, the small yellow 

 corolla simulating that of 3fimulus, but the plant in all 

 other respects unlike that genus. The peculiar dehiscence, 

 with the singular bending back of the valves, will hardly be 

 observable in herbarium specimens, which are almost always 

 too young to show it; but in autumn or midwinter, when the 

 foliage and calyces are decayed, and the capsules alone 

 persist upon the dead stems and branches, this character 

 becomes conspicuous. There is but a single species, rang- 

 ing from Lower California as far down as All Saints Bay at 

 least, northward to Washington Territory (fide Brandegee), 

 namely: 



M. pilosa. — Herpestis, Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. ii, 57. Mimulus exilis, 

 Dur. and Hilg. Pac. R. Rep. v. 12, t. 12. M. pilosus, Watson, Bot. 

 King, 225; Gray, 1. c; Greene, 1. c. 



