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4. Mimulus implexus Greene, Lond. Jour. Bot., vol. 33, p. 8. 1895. 



M. Tilingi Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad., vol. 1, p. 110. 1885. 



M. corallinus Greene, Erythea, vol. 4, p. 21. 1896, not of Regel. 



Type locality. — "Along streams in the higher Sierras, from Las- 

 sen's Peak northward and southward." 



Range. — Washington to California; also in the East Humboldt 

 Mountains, Nevada, ace. Kennedy, Muhl., vol. 8, pp. 18-19. 1912. 



Zone. — Canadian and Hvidsonian. 



Specimens exiamined. — Summit Station, E. L. Greene, August, 

 1883 J near Mt. Stanford (Castle Peak), wet places under bushes, 

 Sonne, July, 1895 ; below Suzy Lake, Tahoe, moist stream bank, 7,500 

 feet. Smiley 157 ; Silver Mountain, Alpine County, Hooker and Gray 

 in 1877 ; branch of White 's Creek, Washoe County, Nevada, 8,500 feet, 

 Kennedy 1886 ; divide south of Slide Mountain, Washoe County, 7,600 

 feet. Heller 10922 ; along Coldstream, 3 miles above Truckee, Heller 

 7004; ridge above Donner Pass, 7,500 feet, Heller 7137 ; Independence 

 Lake, Nevada County, 7,000 feet. Hall and Babcock 4530; base of 

 Mt. Dana, Chesnut and Drew, July 17, 1889; Mt. Goddard, 11,100 

 feet. Hall and Chandler 692 ; moist shady ravine near White Wolf, 

 Yosemite, 8,000 feet. Smiley 887 ; by brooks near Farewell Gap, Tulare 

 County, 10,300 feet, Purpus 5243; Mt. Whitney, Culbertson (B 4544) ; 

 same locality, 12,000 feet. Hall and Babcock 5541 ; Alta Mountains, 

 Tulare County, R. Hopping 214 ; cold streams on Mt. Silliman, 10,000 

 feet, Mrs, Brandegee, August 22, 1905 ; slopes of Sawtooth Peak, 

 Tulare County, 11-12,000 feet, Dudley 1607. 



The characters relied upon in considerable part to separate M. im- 

 plexus from M. corallinus are leaf characters, but the descriptions 

 of the leaves of M. implexus, as given by Dr. Greene, leave one in some 

 perplexity. In the publication of if. implexus, its characters are 

 briefly indicated from the original description (as M. Tilingi), and 

 it is further noted that "No other member of the group makes any 

 approach to it, either in this character or in that of the exceedingly 

 thin membranaceous texture of the' leaves. ' ' A year later, in a note 

 subjoined to the description of M. corallinus, the leaves of M. implexus 

 are asserted to be "of unusual thickness and fleshiness of texture." 



5. Mimulus LangsdorfR Donn, in Sims, Bot. Mag., pi. 1501. 1812. 



M. guttaUis DC, Cat. Monsp., p. 127. 1813. 



M. minor A. Nels., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 17, p. 178. 1904. 



M. 'puberulus Greene, in Eydb., Fl. Col., p. 311. 1906; Leaflets, vol. 2, 



p. 4. 1909. 

 M. minusculus Greene, I.e., p. 5. 



