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unquestionable authority of Dr. Asa Gray for believing that 

 not the present species, but the one first named in this syn- 

 opsis is the real plant of Douglas. 



E. leptabus. 



Viscid puberulent, 1 — -3 inches high, simple or branching : 

 leaves from spatulate-oblong to linear-lanceolate, 2 — 6 lines 

 long, entire : flowers crowded at the ends of the branches, 

 and nearly sessile: calyx-teeth triangular-subulate: corolla 

 crimson, the tube filiform and much exserted, limb bilabiate 

 lh — 3 lines broad: capsule oblong-ovate, obtuse, exceeding 

 the calyx: seed ovate-oblong, smooth. — Mimulus leptaleus, 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. XI. 96; Bot. Cal. I. 561: Syn. 

 Fl. 274. 



Not rare in the higher Sierra, but seldom collected, being 

 an exceedingly small and inconspicuous species. Our best 

 specimens are from Cisco, collected by Dr. Kellogg in 1870. 



* * Corolla with shorter tube, and ampler, less irregular limb. 

 +- Calyx hardly oblique; the teeth nearly equal. 



E. Breweri. 



Two inches to a span high, simple or much branched; 

 viscid-pubescent with spreading gland-tipped hairs : leaves 

 linear, entire, an inch long, sessile: pedicels slender, equal- 

 ing the calyx: calyx-teeth short-triangular, equal: capsule 

 acute, not exserted, chartaceous, dehiscent by the upper 

 suture, the lower parting at the apex only; placentae united 

 below : corolla light purple, 4 — 5 lines long, the tube not 

 exceeding the calyx; lobes subequal, emarginate: seeds 

 ovate-oblong, smooth. Mimulus rubellus, Gray, Bot. Cal. 

 1. c. in so far as the description is drawn from a plant 

 ' 'viscid-pubescent" with ' 'corolla red, or crimson-purple, 

 and little longer than the calyx." 



Common about Donner Lake, growing with E. leptaleus, to 

 which it is most related, although a larger plant with a more 

 loosely branching habit and inflorescence, and quite differ- 

 ently shaped corolla. Its range is a long one, namely: from 



