Mimulus. SCROPHULARIACE.E. 275 



Var. bicolor, Gray, Ic. A doubtful and insufficiently known form; with throat of 

 corolla short and abruptly dilated, dark ])uri)le ; the limb yellow. — Eunanus (j/culor, (iniy, 

 Proe. Am. Acad. vii. 381. — High Sierra Nevada in Fresno Co., Brewer. 

 M. Fremonti, Gray, 1- c. Leaves narrowly oblong or the lowest spatulate, obtuse : 

 calyx-teeth ovate, obtuse or acutish (less than a line long), less than a quarter tiie length of 

 the tube, surpassing tiie proper tube of the crimson corolla. — Eunanus Fremonti, Benth. 

 1. c. — California, from Santa Barbara Co. southward and eastward, first coll. by Fremont. 



++ ++ Calyx decidi'dly obli(iue at the orifice: the teeth unequal, reaching to the base of the fun- 

 nelform tiiroaliof the corolla : stem ratiier slender: leaves ([uite entire. 



M. Parryi, Gray, 1- c. Not pubescent, minutely glandular, 2 to 4 inches liigh : leaves 

 oblong or oblanceolatc, half inch long : teeth of the campanulate calyx acute ; the upper 

 and larger one ovate; the others subulate from a broad base, a third or fourth the lengtii 

 of the tube: corolla yellow or pink, two-thirds inch long: capsule oblong-lanceolate, not 

 surpassing the calyx. — St. George, S. Utah, on gravelly hills, Parr//. 



M. Torreyi, Gray, l-c. Viscid-pubescent, a span to a foot liigh, simple or loosely 

 branching: leaves oblong or almost lanceolate, sometimes an inch long: calyx-teeth all 

 broad and obtuse; tiie posterior one larger and barely a line long: corolla half to three- 

 fourths inch long, pink-purple : capsule chartaceous, lanceolate-oblong. — Eunanus Fremonti, 

 Gray in Pacif. R. Rep. vi. 83, not Benth. — California, through the Sierra Nevada, at 

 4,000 feet and upwards, from Mariposa Co. northward, first coll. by Newberri/. 

 -I— -)— -I— Corolla large and wide, an inch or more long, with proper tube very short and included 

 in tiie caly.x: teetJi of the latter very uiiequal: stem simi)ler and taller: leaves often acutely 

 dentate or denticulate with salient teeth. ('I'ransition to Eumimalus.) 



M. Bolanderi, Gray, I. c. A foot or less high, viscid-pubescent : leaves oblong, an inch 

 or two in length; the lower surpassing the flowers: teeth of the very oblique calyx lan- 

 ceolate ; the posterior and longer one 3 lines long and half the length of the oblong 

 tube: corolla purple, an inch long, cylindraceous : capsule fusiform-subulate, somewhat 

 coriaceous. — M. breviprs, Gray in Pacif. II. Rep. iv. 120, not Benth. — California, in foot- 

 hills and lower part of the Sierra Nevada. 



M. brevipes, Benth. A foot or two high, very viscid-pubescent : leaves from lanceo- 

 late to linear, 1 to 4 inches long : caly.x-teeth very unequal, acuminate ; the posterior fully 

 half the length of the broadly campanulate tube : corolla yellow, sometimes 1} inches 

 long, and the expanded limb nearly as broad, campanulate, with ample rounded lobes : 

 capsule ovate, acuminate, firm-coriaceous. — DC. Prodr. x. 3G9; Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 11(5. — California, from Monterey to San Diego and San Bernardino. 



§ 2. Di'i'LACUS, Gray. Shrubby, glutinous ; with flower.s as of the following 

 aiul capsule of the preceding section : tube of the funnelform corolla about the 

 length of the narrow prismatic carinate-angled calyx : style glandular : stigma 

 bilamellar: placenta; meeting but even in the ovary not united in the axis, in 

 dehi-scence borne on the linear firm-coriaceous valves. — Diplacus^ Nutt. in Aim. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 137 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 368. 



M. glutinosus, Wendl. Shrub 2 to G feet high, nearly glabrous but glutinous : leaves 

 from narrowly oblong to linear, from denticulate to entire (1 to 4 inches long), at length 

 with revolute margins : flowers \\ to 2 inches long, short-pedicelled : corolla usually buff 

 or salmon-color, obscurely bilabiate ; the spreading lobes laciniately toothed or notched. — 

 Obs. 51; Jacq. Schoenbr. iii. t. 304; Gray, I.e. M. aurantiaciis, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 354. 

 iJiplarus (jlutinosits & D. iatifoiius, Nutt. 1. c. D. stellatus, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 18. — 

 Rocky banks, &c., California, conunon from San Francisco southward. Runs into many 

 varieties, such as 



Var. puniceus, Gray, 1. c. Flowers from orange-red to scarlet, often slender-pcdi- 

 celled : corolla-lobes commonly obcordate. — Di/t!ariis puniceus, Nutt. 1. c. ; Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3055. D. rjlutinosus, var. puniceus, Benth. in DC. 1. c. W. California. 



Var. linearis, Gray, 1. c. Flowers very short-pedicelled, red-brown to salmon- 

 color: calyx commonly pubescent : leaves linear, more rigid, and revolute-margined. — M. 

 linearis, Benth. Scropli. Ind. 27. Diplucus lejitanthus, Nutt. 1. c. ; Benth. 1. c. — From Mon- 

 terey southward. 



