MIMULUS JAMESII. 



JAMES' MONKEY-FLOWER. 



NATURAL ORDER, SCROPHULARIACE.E. 



MiMULUS Jamesit, Torrey and Gray. — RifTuse and creeping, freely rooting, glabrate ; leaves 

 roundish and often reniform, from denticulate to nearly entire (four to twelve lines long), 

 all but the uppermost with margined petioles ; flowers all a.xillary and slender pedicelled; 

 corolla light yellow, four to six lines long ; fructiferous calyx campanulate, about three 

 lines long ; seeds oval, shining, almost smooth. (Gray's Syiioplica! Flora of North Amcrka. 

 See also Gray's Manual of the Botany of the Northern Uiiitid States, and Wood's Class- 

 Book of Botany. ) 



HE plant which our drawing illustrates is a native of the 

 Rocky Mountains, that glorious region to which travellers 

 can now so easily go to spend their summers, and in which so 

 many make botanizing their chief and most delightful occupation. 

 It was frequently met with by the writer of this in his explorations 

 of 1871, being generally found wherever there was a little flat by 

 the banks of a stream, in which the earth could remain wet or 

 muddy during most of the season. 



The Mimulus Jamesii is very variable in size, and is seldom 

 found as luxuriant as the specimen from which our illustration 

 was made, a fact which may be readily seen by comparing the 

 plate with the figures given in Dr. Gray's description. The 

 varying character of the species has naturally led to various 

 views of its specific boundaries, and in times past the plant 

 represented in our drawing would have been regarded as Mi- 

 mulus Jamesii var. Fremontii, a variety which was chiefly 

 characterized by the pedicels or flower-stalks being longer than 

 the leaves. The original species, or the form first found, and 

 named M. Jamesii, is thus described by Dr. Gray in his 



