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Mimulus bicolor Hartweg. Low annual, a few inches high, 

 slender, simple or branched, viscid. Leaves linear to lanceolate, 

 inch long, entire or sparingly serrulate. Pedicels shorter or 

 longer than the leaves, rather thick, erect, spreading. Calyx tube 

 wnth dark red dots on the rounding ribs, teeth short, triangular, 

 folded, with spreading tips. Corolla % inch long, tube slightly 

 longer than the cah^, border broad, spreading, upper lip white, 

 lower yellow purple dotted ; violet scented. Capsule not so long 

 as the calyx, oblong-linear. This grows on moist banks, very 

 abundant near Millwood. 



Mimulus Palmeri Gray. Viscid, a few inches high, slender, 

 generally simple. Leaves narrowly oblong to lanceolate, sessile 

 and clasping but narrowed to the base. Pedicels slender, spread- 

 ing, inch or more long. Caljrx scarcely angled, teeth very short, 

 broad, obtuse, purplish. Corolla inch long, with tube twice as 

 long as the calyx, border spreading, scarcely 2-lipped, the lobes 

 notched at apex, crimson, half inch across. Capsule included in 

 the calyx. A delicate, beautiful species found at Millwood. 



Veronica serpyllifolia L. Perennial, from slender, creeping 

 rootstocks, erect, simple or branched, puberulent or smooth be- 

 low. Leaves opposite, oval to broadly oblong, obtuse, minutely 

 crenate, the lowest on short petioles, upper sessile and smaller. 

 Flowers in a spike, raceme several inches long, on erect pedicels 

 which are longer than the calyx. This of 4 unequal divisions, ob- 

 long, obtuse, shorter than the capsule. Corolla very small, blue, 

 wheel-shaped. Stamens 2. Style and disk-like stigma as long 

 as the broadly obcordate capsule. Bracts alternate, shorter than 

 the pedicels. East Lake. 



OROBANCHACE/C. Broomrape Family. 



Aphyllon fascicuiatum T. «& Q. Stems light brown or yel- 

 lowish without any green color whatever, a few inches high ; 

 leaves few, scale-like, ovate, sessile, short. Flowering stems clus- 

 tered, with long peduncles. Calyx with spreading divisions as 

 long as the tube. Corolla 2-lipped, about an inch long, the tube 

 almost three times as long as the calyx. This is a parasite and 

 fastens itself upon the roots of other plants. It v/as attached to 

 sage-brush, and was collected on Bubbs Creek trail. 



