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MIMULUS* propmquus. 

 Dwarf Yellow Monkey-flower. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. SCROPIIULARINEa;. 



MIMULUS. — Supra, vol. W.fol. 874. 



M. propinquus ; annuus, undique glanduloso-pubescens, caule decumbente 

 tereti, tbliis ovatis dentatis : supremis sessilibus, pedunculis axillaribus 

 foliis brevioribus pubescentibus, corollse lobis obtusis : fauce pubescente ; 

 tubo calyci sequali. 



Herba, habitu M. guttati, sed omnibus partibus, prcesertim fioribus, 

 minor. Caules et folia magis carnosa, et undique glanduloso-pubescens. 

 Pedunculi pubescentes, foliis breviores. Calyx carnosus, leviter pubescens, 

 dentibus dudbus inferioribus rotundatis, supremd cceteris majore, demiim 

 subfalcatd. Corolla figurd omninb M. guttati ; sed triplb minor, lobis 

 planioribus, et fauce minus barbatd. 



Raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society from 

 seeds brought from North-west America by Mr. Douglas. 

 It is a hardy annual, flowering freely from May to October, 

 and producing seed in great abundance. 



Like all its genus, it will always increase by the seeds 

 it naturally scatters upon the soil ; so that a Garden in 

 which it has once been planted is scarcely likely to lose it, 

 unless it be destroyed designedly. It is by no means so 

 handsome as M. luteus, rivularis, or guttatus ; but it is a 

 pretty addition to the species of this very interesting group. 



The stigma of all the genus offers a beautiful example 

 of vegetable irritability. When at rest its two broad lobes 

 lie apart, their margins being separated by a considerable 

 interval ; but upon touching the stigma with a bristle, or 

 some such body, the lobes instantly collapse with great 

 rapidity. J- L- 



* So called from f^ty^a, a monkey; in allusion to the resemblance of the 

 flower to the visage of a grinning monkey. Pliny has a mimulus ; but it is 

 not known what he meant. 



