MIMULUS. 
M. Burnetivi is more than twice as high, and brownish-red. 
M. caespitosus, from California, is more in the line of the rock- 
garden, being neat in the tuft and with stems of some 4 inches, with 
flowers of brilliant yellow. 
M. cardinalis and M. glutinosus, the first with scarlet dragons and 
the second with golden ones, are both too coarse and lush in the habit 
for the size of their blossoms, or for any use except in the wildest of 
wild or bog gardens, where WM. cupreus, rank and flopping in growth, 
has unsurpassed value at the edge of a pond, for the protracted pro- 
fusion of its copper-orange bloom, in size and in weakly stems like 
those of the wild Monkey-flower, but borne on denser masses. 
M. Douglasit gives better hope still, being often only half an inch 
high, and never more than six. The flowers are maroon-red, with a 
yellow lip, erect lobes, and very long tubes. (California.) 
M. Geyeri (M. Jamesii) and M. Langsdorffii are rather weak in the 
ascendent stems, with yellow flowers of ample size and effect. They 
are both spreading plants, as is also WM. glabratus var. Jamesu, with 
rounded leaves that lack the longish foot-stalks of the other two. 
M. Lewisii unfortunately attains a foot in height, or even a couple ; 
but has narrow snapdragons of fiery scarlet. 
M. luteus —The race will travel far before it beats, alike for 
convenience of habit and brilliancy of great yellow flimsy flower, 
our own half-native Monkey-wort, by now established in half the 
stream-beds and river-shingles of England. By the water’s edge 
it vies with J. cupreus in producing a solid and sheeting mass 
of colour. 
M. moschatus—Nor need the common Musk be disdained ; it can, 
however, be trusted to look after itself, whether or no it lose its sweet- 
ness when the air is no longer desert for it to be wasted on. 
M. nanus is a, really beautiful species from the gravel hills of Cali- 
fornia—a sticky stout thing, with stems of half an inch perhaps, or 
as much as 4 inches, and then comfortable flowers of rose-purple 
half an inch across, and freaked with gold and dark violet. (M. Tol- 
nviaert, Benth., Rydb.) 
M. primuloeides and M. alsinoeides are miniatures, of which the 
former is a specially dainty charmer, making mats of stems not 2 inches 
high, with flowers of brilliant yellow. It is accustomed to grow in 
damp corners often submerged, and has provided itself with pre- 
cautionary swollen life-bladders that detach themselves and float away 
and form new plants on the subsidence of the waters. In cultivation 
it should have a choice, level, cool corner, rather damp, and with a 
careful eye kept upon its moods. 
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