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less lobed, the lower reflexed, with i spreading division. Stamens 

 and pistil exserted, the latter longer and extending beyond the 

 calyx in fruit to a length equal to the calyx tube. This handsome 

 species grows near water, and is found at Millwood and other 

 places. 



Mimulus primuloides Benth. Low, forming mats in wet 

 meadows, clothed with glistening white wool. Leaves obovate to 

 wedge-shaped, sharply serrate, about an inch long, generally 

 crowded. Flowers few on each stem, often solitary at the top, 

 pedicels capillary, 1-3 inches long. Calyx scarcely ribbed, the 

 teeth very short, equal, acute. Corolla yellow, yi-^ inch long, 

 widening from the calyx to the spreading border, with the lobes 

 alike, notched. This is found in all the meadows. General 

 Grant Park, Millwood. 



Mimulus moschatus Dougl. Musk Plant. Perennial, with 

 many weak spreading stems, viscid and slimy, woolly. Leaves 

 ovate on very short petioles, the lower ones almost orbicular, 

 entire, serrate, about an inch long. Flowers on slender pedicels 

 shorter than the leaves. Calyx tubular, half as long as the 

 corolla, with angled folds and almost equal teeth, triangular, 

 pointed. Corolla yellow, half inch long, tube funnel-form 

 exserted. border almost equally lobed with entire rounded 

 divisions. Capsule shorter than the calyx. In swampy places 

 near Millwood. 



Mimulus moniliformis Greene. Stems simple or branching, 

 erect, clothed with long, white, woolly hairs. Leaves near the 

 root ovate-orbicular, on petioles half as long as the blades ; upper 

 leaves ovate to oblong, acute, on very short petioles, sharply 

 toothed, erect, enfolding the stem. Flowers in the upper axils 

 on slender pedicels as long as the leaves, erect. Calyx papery, 

 with the folds green, tube % inch long, enlarging in fruit, with 

 short, triangular, almost equal teeth ; corolla an inch or less 

 wide, the tube widening to the throat, the exserted portion as 

 long as that within the calyx, border not widely expanded, the 

 divisions about equal. Capsule ovate, X inch long, pointed. 

 Seeds very small and numerous. This is said to have moniliform 

 tubers on the roots. General Grant Park, Millwood, Bearskin 

 Meadow. 



Mimulus nasutus Qreene. Perennial, the simple or branched 

 stems from a few inches to 2 or 3 feet high, smooth or clothed with 

 fine, irregularly appressed pubescence. Lower leaves on long 

 petioles which clasp the stem at base, broad, oval or ovate, irreg- 

 ularly and sharply toothed, often with 2 lobes below the blade, 



