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loosely branched stems ascending, 0.5-2 dm. long. Leaf-blades ovate or lance-ovate, entire 

 to slightly dentate, pinnately veined, 1.3-1.8 cm. long, rounded to petioles less than one-half 

 the length of blades; calyx 7-9 mm. long, ridge-angled, its lobes acummate, finely ciholate; 

 corolla 15-17 mm. long, yellow, the throat narrowly campanulate, ventrally with I highly 

 raised ridges pubescent with clavate hairs, toward and below the open orifice with orange to 

 brown spots, the spreading lobes rounded ; anthers glabrous ; capsule 6 mm. long, not dehiscing 

 through septum-apex. 



Moist granitic gravelly soil, Canadian Zone; Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California. Type locality: 

 Mineral King, Tulare County, California. July-Aug. 



24. Mimulus Whipple! Grant. Whipple's Monkey-flower. Fig. 4544. 



Mimulus U'hipplei Grant, Ann. Mo. Bot. Card. 11: 484. 1925. 



Annual glandular-pubescent herb, the stems 1.5 dm. tall. Leaf-blades oval or elliptic-oval, 

 coarsely dentate, palmately veined, 2 cm. long, cuneate to petioles 1.5 cm. long; pedicels at 

 least 30-40 mm. long ; calvx 7-8 mm. long, plicate, its lobes acummate, the uppermost slight y 

 the longest; corolla 20-22 mm. long, yellow, its orifice open and the rounded lobes widely 

 spreading. 



Rocky places. Transition Zones; Sierra Nevada in Calaveras County, central California. Type locality: 

 Murphy's, Calaveras County. May. 



25. Mimulus arenarius Grant. Sand-loving Monkey-flower. Fig. 4545. 



Mimulus arenarius Grant, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 11: 215. 1925. 



Annual finely glandular-pilose herb, the stems erect or ascending, 0.5-1.5 dm. tall. Leaf- 

 blades elliptic or narrowly so, dentate to entire, 0.8-1.5 cm. long, short or indistinctly petioled, 

 the lower more evidently so; pedicels 12-23 mm. long; calyx 6-9 mm. long, ridge- to wing- 

 angled, its lobes 1 mm. long, acute; corolla 13-16 mm. long, yellow, the throat cyhndnc, 

 ventrally with 2 sharp stiffly hairy ridges and beneath the open orifice and over base of lower 

 lip mottled with dark red, the spreading lobes rounded ; anthers glabrous ; capsule 7 mm. long, 

 not dehiscing through septum-apex. 



Moist sandv soil, Transition Zones; lower slopes of Sierra Nevada from Mariposa County to Fresno 

 County, California. Type locality: Huntington Lake, Fresno County, California. May-July. 



26. Mimulus Pulsiferae A. Gray. Candelabrum Monkey-flower. Fig. 4546. 



Mimulus Pulsiferae A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. U: 98. 1876. 



Annual glandular-puberulent herb, the stems erect, 0.5-1.5 dm. tall. Leaf-blades elliptic- 

 oblong, denticulate to entire, 0.7-1.5 cm. long, narrowed to petioles about half the length of 

 blades ; pedicels divaricately upcurving, 12-18 mm. long ; calyx 7-9 mm. long, ndge-angled its 

 lobes 1 mm. long, acute; corolla 9-11 mm. long, yellow, the throat narrowly campanulate, 

 ventrally pubescent (especially on the 2 ridges) and beneath the open orifice, and over base of 

 mid-anterior lobe brown-spotted and mottled, the spreading lobes all rounded ; anthers glabrous ; 

 capsule 7 mm. long, not dehiscing through septum-apex. 



Moist openings in coniferous forest, Transition Zones; southern Washington south to Mariposa County, 

 California. Type locality: Indian Valley, California. April-June. 



27 Mimulus washingtonensis Gandoger. Washington Monkey-flower. 



Fig. 4547. 



Mimulus washingtonensis Gandoger, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 66: 218. 1919. 



Annual glandular-pubescent herb, the often much-branched stems ascending or erect, 0.5- 

 1.5 dm. tall. Leaf-blades ovate, denticulate, 0.6-1.5 cm. long, rounded or truncate to petioles 

 nearly or quite as long as blades; pedicels ascending, 20-30 mm. long; calyx 6-8 mm. long, 

 ridge-angled, its lobes 1 mm. long, acute; corolla 12-15 mm. long, yellow, the throat narrowly 

 campanulate, ventrally pubescent (especially on the 2 ridges) and beneath the open orifice 

 slightly brown-spotted, the lobes all rounded, the lower longer ; anthers glabrous ; capsule 7 mm. 

 long, not dehiscing through septum-apex. 



Moist sandy soil, Upper Sonoran Zone; interior valley of Columbia River, Klickitat County, Washington, 

 to Grant County, Oregon. Type locality: Bingen, Washington. May-Sept. 



28. Mimulus patulus Pennell. Stalk-leaved Monkey-flower. Fig. 4548. 



Mimulus patulus Pennell, Proc. Acad. Phila. 99: 162. 1947. 



Annual glandular-pilose herb, the stems ascending, 1-2 dm. tall. Leaf-blades ovate, un- 

 dulately dentate, palmately 3-veined, 0.5-1.2 cm. long, rounded-truncate to petioles 1 to 2 

 times length of blades; pedicels ascending, 13-20 mm. long; calyx 6-7 mm. long, glandular- 

 puberulent, ridge- to wing-angled, its lobes 0.5-0.8 mm. long, acutish to acute; corolla 7-9 mm. 

 long, yellow, the throat narrowly campanulate, ventrally with 2 low slightly pubescent ridges, 

 the orifice open and the lobes rounded; anthers glabrous; capsule 5 mm. long, not dehiscing 

 through septum. 



Moist banks of streams and ditches. Transition Zones; interior plateau from Whitman County, south- 

 eastern Washington, to Lake County, southern Oregon. Type locality: Wawawai, Washington. May-July. 



29. Mimulus alsinoides Dougl. Chickweed Monkey-flower. Fig. 4549. 



Mimulus alsinoides Dougl. ex. Benth. Scroph. Indicae 29. 1935. 



Annual herb, slightly glandular-pubescent to glabrescent, often much-branched, the stems 



