222 NJ^W PLANTS, ETC., 



18. MiMULUs TKicoLOR. Hortweg.* 



Raised from seeds brout^ht home by Mr, Hartweg, and said 

 to be collected on the plains of the Sacramento valley, 

 in California. 



An annual, soft and covered with delicate glaiulular hairs. 

 Leaves pale green, oblong-lanceolate, tapering to the base, here 

 and there toothed at the edge, those near the root of the same 

 form as the others. The flowers, which are about 2 inches long, 

 grow singly and nearly sessile in the axils of the leaves ; they 

 have a long narrow plaited unequal calyx, beyond which pro- 

 jects the very slender tube of the corolla, which then widens 

 into a funnel-shaped limb, with an oblique border cut into 5 

 nearly equal roiuided lobes. Its general colour is bright pink, 

 with a deep crimson spot at the base of each lobe, and a bright 

 yellow stain along the lower lip. 



It is distinguished from Mimulus hrevipes by the uniform shape 

 of the leaves, by the nearly sessile flowers with a long, narrow, by 

 no means ovate, calyx, and by the slender exserted tube of the 

 corolla. 



As far as its cultivation is understood, it appears as if it would 

 be best to treat it as a half-hardy annual. 



It is a delicate growing plant, with very neat party-coloured 

 flowers, well repaying any care required for its cultivation. 



June 2, 1849, 



19. NuTTALLiA cERASiFORMis. ToTvey and Gray, in the 

 Botany of Beechey's Voyage, p. 336, t. 82, 



Received from Mr, Hartweg in January 1848, from Cali- 

 fornia, said to be a deciduous shnxb, 2 feet high, from 

 the woods near Monterey', 

 A shrub, with a very thin half-transparent smooth deciduous 

 foliage. The leaves are obovate-lanceolate, or oblong, perfectly 

 smooth, pale-green, rather glaucous beneath. From the base of 

 the young shoots, opposite one of tlie earliest leaves, springs a 

 nodding raceme of greenish-wliite flowers, furnished with broad, 

 reflexed, thin, very pale-green bracts. There are five petals, 

 which soon fall off", and fifteen stamens inserted on the calyx in a 

 double row. The aspect of the plant is something that of a bird- 

 cherry, but its fruit is said to consist of from one to five leathery 

 drupes, which finally dry up and split. 



* M. tricolor ; annua, erecta, pubescens, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis subden- 

 tatis vix inaequalibus, floribus subsessilibus, calyce_ angxistissimo plicato 

 dentibus ina?qualibus, corolla; tubo gracili exserto in limbum obliquum 

 subseqixaliter quinquefidum rotuudatum dilatato. — J. L. 



