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38. SCROIMin.AinACPLl':. 



intiicatf hairs, the peduncles 

 also rillous. It is sometimes 

 considered a separate species 

 (Jj. Sicbcri, Reichenbach). 



Pasture and cultivated land. 

 — Doc. - May. — Europe ; western 



Asia. 



3. MiMULUs, L. 



(Greek ininw, a monkey; allud- 

 ing to the shape of the 

 corolla.) 



1. Mimulus moschatus, 



Douglas. MvsJ{ M'niniJus. Vil- 

 lous, sticky perennial, smelling 

 of musk; stems procumlx-nt , 

 woolly, rooting nt ba.se; leaves 

 opposite, all sliortly stalk('l, 

 oval-acute, with small di.staiit 

 teeth ; flowers pale-yellow, soli- 

 tary in the axils of almost all 

 the lca\es, on peduncles shorter 



or longer 



Linaria Elatine. 







Mimulus moschatus. 



than the leaves ; 

 fruiting calyx oblong, 5-anfrle(l. 

 witli i") lanceolate, unequal teeth ; 

 corolla tubular in lowei- part, 

 '2-lipped, the lower lip with 2 

 raised, downy, orange lines at 

 the base of its middle lolte ; 

 stigma broadly-2-lolied ; capsule 

 ovoid, enclosed in tlio calyx, 

 wrinkled transver.sely aiul open- 

 ing by 2 valves. 



Mount Lofty Range; in moist 

 places. - Nov. - Jan. North 



America ; naturalised in part^s of 

 I'hirojx'. 



4. Verbasctjm, L. 



Calyx deeply 5-lobed ; corolla 

 with a .short tube and a .spiearl 

 ing limb of 5 unequal rounded 

 lobes ; .stamens 5, the 2 lower 

 ones the longest; anthers 1- 

 celled ; lea\'es alternate, the 

 radical ones in a rosette. 



Loaves decurrent ; Huwers in a douse spike ... 



lioavos not docurront ; flowers in a loose 



raceme 



1'. Thapsus 1 

 V. virgatuin 2 



