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Appearing early in spring, and resembling a Calceolaria, this is 

 the most ornamental British species. — Fl. April — June. Perennial. 



■^5. MiMULUS (Monkey-flower). — Herbs with square stems, 

 opposite leaves, and conspicuous, solitary, axillary flowers ; calyx 

 5-cleft, 5-angled ; corolla 2-lipped, gaping, the upper lip 2-lobed 

 and reflexed ; seeds many. (Name from the Greek mimo, an ape, 

 from the form of the flower.) 



I.* M. Langsdorfii (Yellow Monkey-flower). — A pretty North 

 American plant, with hollow creeping stems, ovate, veined leaves, 

 and large, yellow, funnel-shaped -flowers, which has escaped from 

 cultivation and become naturalised by the sides of many streams. 

 Some of its cultivated varieties have the flowers blotched with 

 brown or red. — Fl. June — September. Perennial. 



Lii\i0SJ*LLA aquAtica (^Cotitnton Mudivort). 



6. LiMOSELLA (Mudwort). — Small, tufted, creeping, glabrous, 

 aquatic plants, with radical, linear leaves and minute, solitary, 

 axillary flowers ; corolla short, bell-shaped, 5-cleft, nearly poly sym- 

 metric ; stamens 4, with i -chambered anthers. (Name from the 

 Latin limus, mud, from the character of the places in which the 

 plant grows.) 



I. L. aqudtica (Common Mudwort). — The only British species, 

 a small plant, throwing up from the roots a number of smooth, 

 spathulate leaves on long stalks, and minute, pale pink or white 

 flowers on shorter stalks. — Watery places ; not common. — Fl. July 

 — September. Annual. 



7. SiBTHORPiA (Cornish Money-wort). — Slender, creeping, hairy 

 plants, with rounded, lobed, stalked leaves, and small, solitary, 

 axillary flowers ; calyx in 5 deep, spreading segments ; corolla short, 

 rotate, 5-cleft, nearly poly symmetric ; anthers 2 -chambered ; capsule 



