NEW SPECIES FSOM MARIPOSA COUNTY. 187 



eels very slender, divaricate, mostly much longer than the flowers. 

 Calyx-tube cylindrical, scarious but marked with green lines 

 corresponding to the linear-subulate teeth, which are nearly as long 

 as the tube. Corolla funnel-form, 2 to 3 in. long, varying in age 

 to almost salver-form, purplish blue with a yellow throat. Sta- 

 mens shorter than the corolla lobes. Seeds developing spiracles 

 when wetted. 



New Coulterville Road, Mariposa Co., April. 



Coliinsia inconspicua. Annual. Stems slender, with few, 

 nearly erect branches, rough with short, stiff pubescene, 6 to 12 in. 

 high. Leaves less pubescent, often nearly glabrous, lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceoiate to linear, thickish in texture, paler beneath ; the 

 upper usually entire, the lower crenately toothed, all petioled. 

 Flowers shortly pedicellate; the pedicels in fruit ^ to 4 in. in length, 

 axillary, single below, above in axillary whorls of about 6 flowers, 

 the leaves reduced to narrow bracts. Calyx-tube ovoid-globular, 

 with stout, setaceous, rough- pubescent, long, tapering teeth which 

 are longer than the tube. Corolla ^ to ^ in. long, strongly bilabi- 

 ate, white with brown-purple spots. Ovary globular, smooth, 

 slightly projecting from the calyx-tube. 



Occasional in the woods of the coniferous belt. 



Mimulus coccineus. Annual. Stem usually condensed into 

 a radical tuft which sends down a long, slender thread of a root 

 into the sand. (In moist soils a short but real stem develops.) 

 Herbage with a very short, close, glandular pubescence. Leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, obtusish, thin, ^ to f in. 

 long. . Flowers few, axillary, large for the size of the plant. 

 Calyx short-cylindrical, not inflated, slightly plicate-angled, with 

 linear teeth nearly or quite as long as the tube. Corolla at first 

 almost scarlet, turning darker with age, with a tube nearly 1 in. 

 long, very slender below, above gradually expanding into a funnel- 

 form throat, with a widely expanded almost regular limb. 



A very pretty species growing in the granite sand in or near the 

 mountain-tops of the Sierras, east of the Minarets, August. 



flimuius viscidus. Annual, erect or nearly so with, unless 

 depauperate, slender spreading branches. Plant strongly viscid- 

 pubescent and glandular, 1 to 9 in. high. Leaves oblong-obovate, 



