MAZUS. 
the perennial species, if the winter be feared or an increase of stock 
be desired. The species all flower through the summer, and the usual 
effect is then like large rather pointy blossoms of lavender-and-gold 
Linarias lying scattered on flat carpets of verdure. 
M. dentatus is the largest-flowered of the group. At the base of 
each stem it has some three or four leaves (sometimes less), and these 
are rounded and pointed, heart-lobed at the base, rather oval and 
irregularly toothed and waved. The flowers are nearly an inch 
across, distant from each other, and either smooth or sparingly hairy. 
This plant is a perennial and throws out no runners, and comes from 
Sikkim. 
M. pumilio is a species from both Islands of New Zealand. It 
sends up short leafy branches, and the stems carry from one to six 
blossoms of lilac-violet, or blue and white, or whitish, of which 
the lobes are notably narrow and pointed, so as to make the flowers 
look specially starry on their footstalks that spring free of the leafage. 
The plant is perennial, forming a dense running carpet of clear green 
foliage; and it is, in any case, much smaller in its parts than the 
annual M. rugosus from India. 
M. radicans (Mimulus radicans), has the metallic-purple leaves 
stalked and huddled and spread out, rather obovate, and more or less 
smooth at the edge, unless with a quite dim waving. The foot-stalks 
spring from the ends of the shoots, carrying from one to three large 
white flowers, of which the lower lip is the largest part, and has a yellow 
centre and a violet blotch. This is a perennial, throwing out rooting 
runners, from the mountain marshes in both Islands of New Zealand, 
and very handsome in the level damp stretches of the sheltered garden, 
with the delicate gaiety of its flowers in fine contrast with the sombre 
tone of the dense carpet on which they are scattered. 
M. rugosus, Lour., about which obscurity has raged, is confined 
entirely to India and Asia. It is a smooth hairless plant (as a rule), 
or very sparingly hairy ; it throws up numerous flowering stems from 
round its neck, and these carry several blue flowers of some quarter of 
an inch or half an inch long. The basal leaves are stalked, obovate- 
spoon-shaped and scallop-edged ; as you see the plant, a single tuft, 
or clump of tufts, with flower-stems springing round the central axis, 
so it stays and does no more. For it throws out no runners, and is 
an annual. 
M. surculosus, Don., stands very near to M. rugosus, but the leaves 
at the base are often almost cut and feathered into lobes. This plant 
is a perennial (probably), and throws out runners. (From rather lower 
elevations than the last, in the mountains of Khunawar and Bhotan.) 
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