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i6o FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



a pink or purplish tinge. Leaves, opposite, sessile, or with 

 short petioles, long, tapering, broad or narrow. Time, August. 

 Calyx, of 5 sepals. The mouth of the inflated, tubular co- 

 rolla is a little open, the upper lip being swollen as if hump- 

 backed. Looking into the throat, it is seen to be woolly- 

 bearded, having 4 stamens which have woolly filaments and 

 tiny heart-shaped anthers. A fifth but sterile stamen is pres- 

 ent. 



This plant grows often very high, usually 2 to 3 feet. Stem 

 and leaves smooth. Flowers occupy the ends of branches, 

 crowded together, the lower in blossom while the upper are in 

 bud. It takes a lively imagination to invest the innocent corolla 

 with reptile-like features. 



43. Monkey-flower 



Mi'mulus ringens (" Diminutive of mimus, a buffoon, from 

 the grinning corolla." — Gray). — Family, Figwort. Color, 

 lilac. Leaves, opposite, meeting and clasping the stem, long 

 and narrow or oblong, pointed, toothed. Time, July to Sep- 

 tember. 



Calyx, with 5 angles and teeth. Corolla, tubular, 2-lipped, 

 upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-divided ; of the snap-dragon order, 

 slightly open. The flowers grow near the upper part of the 

 stem, in the leaf-axils hanging from long, slender peduncles. 

 The stem is sharply 4-angled, 2 or 3 feet high, smooth. 



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Often growing beside this species is M. aldtiis, differing only 

 in having petioled leaves and flowers on shorter peduncles. 

 The flowers are of the same delicate shade of lilac, and the 

 stem is even more sharply angled. 



45. Scarlet Painted-cup 

 Casti/leia coccinea. — Family, Figwort. Color, of incon- 



