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ascending or decumbent, 0.5-2.5 dm. long. Leaf-blades ovate, denticulate, 1-2 cm. long, rounded 

 or truncate to petioles about as long as to longer than blades ; pedicels 10-30 mm. long ; calyx 

 6-8 mm. long, becoming plicate-angled, its upper lobes 0.3-0.5 mm. long, acute, the lower 

 lobes slightly longer and usually rounded ; corolla 10-12 mm. long, yellow, the throat narrowly 

 campanulate, ventrally flattened, only faintly 2-ridged and glabrous, the orifice open, the upper 

 lobes ascending, the lower longer and with large dark purple spot over the base of its middle 

 lobe ; anthers glabrous ; capsule 5-6 mm. long, not dehiscing through septum-apex. 



Wet rock clefts and cliffs. Transition Zones; Vancouver Island to northern California. Type locality: 

 Tongue Point, Wahkiakum County, Washington. March-June. 



30. Mimulus breviflorus Piper. Short-flowered Monkey-flower. Fig. 4550. 



Mimulus breviflorus Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 45. 1901. 

 Mimulus infiatulus Suksd. Werdenda 1 : 38. 1927. 



Annual glandular-puberulent herb, often much-branched below, the stems erect, 0.3-1.5 dm. 

 tall. Leaf-blades elliptic-lanceolate, denticulate, palmately 3-veined, 0.5-2 cm. long, narrowed 

 to petioled or nearly sessile bases; pedicels becoming 5-13 mm. long; calyx 5-8 mm. long, wing- 

 and somwhat plicate-angled, its lobes 0.5-1 mm. long, acute; corolla 4-5 mm. long, little 

 exceeding the calyx, yellow, the throat tubular-cylindric, ventrally with 2 low ridges bearing 

 short knobbed hairs and faint brownish spots, the orifice open and the scarcely spreading lobes 

 rounded ; anthers glabrous ; capsule 4-5 mm. long, not dehiscing through septum-apex. 



Moist places along streams. Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; southeastern Washington and Idaho 

 to northern California. Type locality: Pullman, Washington. May-June. 



31. Mimulus latidens (A. Gray) Greene. Broad-toothed Monkey-flower. 



Fig. 4551. 



Mimulus inconspicuus var. latidens A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 2^: 450. 1886. 

 Mimulus latidens Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 278. 1894. 



Annual finely glandular-pilose herb, forming a spring rosette of petioled ovate irregularly 

 dentate leaves, the erect or laterally decumbent stems 1.5-2.5 dm. tall with a few remote 

 pairs of sessile and more acute leaf-blades, the larger lower blades reaching 2.5-4 cm. long. 

 Pedicels becoming 20-30 mm. long; calyx 10-12 mm. long, plicate-angled, contracted distally, 

 its lobes 1-2 mm. long, ovate, acute, slightly ciliolate : corolla 10-11 mm. long, whitish, little 

 exceeding the calyx, the throat cylindric, ventrally with 2 low slightly pubescent ridges, the 

 orifice open and the short lobes scarcely spreading, purplish ; anthers glabrous ; capsule 7 mm. 

 long, not dehiscing through septum-apex. 



Wet adobe soil, Upper Sonoran Zone; northern California to northern Lower California. Type locality: 

 Chollas Valley, San Diego County, California. April-June. 



32. Mimulus Parishii Greene. Parish's Monkey-flower. Fig. 4552. 



Mimulus Parishii Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 108. 1885. 



Annual hirsute herb, with ample root system, the stout stems erect, 1 . S-6 dm. tall. Leaf- 

 blades oblanceolate to oblong, longitudinally 3-veined, distally denticulate to dentate, 3 cm. long, 

 all narrowed to clasping bases; pedicels ascending-erect, 15-18 mm. long; calyx 9-10 mm. long, 

 ridge- to wing-angled, its lobes 1 mm. long, acute; corolla 10-13 mm. long, pale purple, little 

 exceeding the calyx ; anthers glabrous ; capsule 5 mm. long, probably dehiscing through septum- 

 apex. 



Streamsides in desert mountains, Upper Sonoran Zone; bases of San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San 

 Jacinto Mountains in southern California. Type locality: Cox's Ranch, on Mojave slope of San Bernardino 

 Mountains, California. May-Aug. 



33. Mimulus montioides A. Gray. Montia-like Monkey-flower. Fig. 4553. 



Mimulus montioides A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 380. 1868. 



Annual glandular-puberulent herb, the stems erect or ascending, 0.2-0.5 dm. tall. Leaf- 

 blades linear-oblanceolate, entire, 1-veined, 0.7-1.3 cm. long, sessile; pedicels 5-13 mm. long; 

 calyx 5-7 mm. long, ridge-angled, its lobes 0.5 mm. long, acute to rounded; corolla 12-17 mm. 

 long, yellow, the throat campanulate, ventrally 2-ridged and minutely pubescent, the orifice open 

 and the lobes spreading, notched, the lowermost sometimes with 1 or several purple spots; 

 anthers glabrous. 



Moist places. Transition and probably Canadian Zones; southern Sierra Nevada of California and moun- 

 tains east of Lake Tahoe in Nevada. Type locality: "High sierras of Fresno," actually Tulare County, Cali- 

 fornia. March-June. 



34. Mimulus rubellus A. Gray. CiHolate-toothed Monkey-flower. Fig. 4554. 



Mimulus rubellus A. Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 116. 1859. The purple-flowered form. 

 Mimulus gratioloides Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 28: 27. 1901. The yellow-flowered form. 



Annual glandular-puberulent herb, the stems erect, often much branched, 0.2-1.2 dm. tall. 

 Leaf -blades elliptic-oblong, entire or slightly toothed, 3-veined, 0.5-2 cm. long, sessile (the lowest 

 smaller and petioled) ; pedicels becoming 7-22 mm. long ; calyx 5-7 mm. long, ridge- to wing- 

 angled, its lobes low-triangular or its mucronate tips less than 0.5 mm. long; corolla 7-9 mm. 

 long, yellow throughout or the lobes purple, the throat narrow, ventrally 2-ridged and puberulent, 



