FIGWORT FAMILY 



MONKEY-FLOWER 



Mimulus ringens 



Diminutive of mitmis, a mimic actor. 



Perennial by rootstocks. Native. A leafy plant 

 bearing a few violet, two-lipped flowers, and growing in 



moist places, often in shade near 

 a cool stream. Nova Scotia to 

 Nebraska, south to Virginia and 

 Tennessee. June-September. 



Stem. — Smooth, hollow, erect; 

 one to three feet high. Two of 

 its sides are flattened and the 

 other two are grooved; these 

 flattened surfaces alternate with 

 each pair of leaves. 



Leaves. — Opposite, clasping or 

 sessile, oblong, lanceolate, or ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acute or acu- 

 minate, obscurely serrate. 



Flowers. — Violet, two-lipped, 

 solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves, three-fourths to an inch 

 across. 



Calyx. — Tubular, five-angled, 

 five-toothed. 



Corolla. — Irregular, two- 

 lipped, tube cylindric; the upper 

 lip two-lobed; lower lip spread- 

 ing, three-lobed; lobes rounded, 

 three-fourths to an inch across. 



Stamens. — Four, white, in two pairs, included anthers 

 meeting over the top of the pistil. 



Pistil. — Ovary two-celled; style slender; stigma. 



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Monkey-Flower. Mimulus 

 ringens 



