Figworl Family 367 



elongated; calyx broadly campanulate, its teeth acute, very 

 unequal, the upper one twice the length of the others; corolla 

 about 1.5 cm. long, little surpassing the calyx, deep yellow, with 

 <>r without a large purple blotch on the lower lip. 



Common along streams in the mountains and foothills below the pine 

 belt. April-August. 



10. M. microphyllus Benth. Annual, glabrous below, some- 

 what pubescent above; stems terete, slender, with ascending 

 branches or commonly simple, 1-3 dm. high; flowers in short 

 racemes or in depauperate forms, solitary ; leaves ovate to orbicu- 

 lar, often cordate at the base, denticulate or coarsely toothed : 

 peduncles slender; calyx often dotted, oblique at the orifice; the 

 teeth obscure or prominent, the upper one largest; corolla 1-2 

 cm. long, throat rather narrow, the limb broad, usually without 

 purple dots. 



Occasional along streams in the pine belt of all our mountains. June,- 

 August. 



9. MIMETANTHE (ireene. 



Erect branching annual, with long villous white hairs, 

 opposite leaves, and small yellow flowers. Calyx short- 

 campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, its tube slightly 5-sulcate, 

 nut prismatic angled. Corolla obscurely bilabiate, its 

 lobes plane. Stamens 4, 2-fertile. Capsule pointed, 

 loculicidal. dehiscent the whole length of tin- upper 

 side and on the lower side along the apical attenuation. 



1. M. pilosa (Benth.) Greene. At length much branched, 

 leafy, flowering from near the base, 1-3 dm. high, herbage glan- 

 dular-viscid ; leaves lanceolate or narrowly oblong-ovate, entire, 

 sessile ; flowers on slender pedicels ; the upper tooth of calyx 

 much longer than the others, equaling the tube; corolla yellow, 

 the lower lobes usually with brown spots, slightly exceeding the 

 calyx, 6-8 mm. long; capsule oblong-ovate, attenuate. {Mimulus 

 ea ill* Durand.) 



Frequent along streams in the valleys and in the mountains. May- 

 August. 



10. VERONICA L. Speedwell. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with opposite and alter- 

 nate, rarelv verticillate leaves, and mostlv small terminal 



