1924] 
GRANT—A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS MIMULUS 247 
and Pomona); meadow, foot of Mt. Eddy, 4 Aug., 1905, 
Dudley (Stanford); near Wagon Creek Falls, east side of Mt. 
Eddy, 29 June, 1919, Heller (M); Sisson, 6 July, 1914, L. S. 
Smith 750 (G and U. S.). | 
The variety is easily separated from the species by its long, 
slender leaves and its larger calyx and corolla. 
55. M. bicolor Benth. Pl. Hartw. 328. 1849; Gray in Proc. 
Am. Acad. 11: 99. 1876; Bot. Calif. 1: 568. 1876; Syn. Fl. N. 
Am. 2: 278. 1878, ed. 2, and Suppl. 450. 1886; Greene in 
Bull Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 121. 1885; Eastwood, Fl. South 
Fork King’s River, Sierra Club Publ. 27:67. 1902; Hall, Yosem- 
ite Fl. 222. 1912. РІ. 10, fig. 4. 
M. Prattenii Durand in Jour. Phila. Acad. Sci. П. 3:98. 1855. 
Stems densely glandular-pubescent, 6-30 em. high, simple or 
branched from the base; leaves few, obovate or oblanceolate or 
sometimes linear, 1.8-3 cm. long, 3-6 mm. broad, obtuse, yel- 
lowish-green, tapering to а slender petioled base, entire or 
serrulate, upper leaves sessile, internodes usually much longer 
than the leaves; inflorescence racemose, pedicels glandular- 
pubescent, mostly longer than the leaves, often spreading hori- 
zontally; calyx oblong, 6-10 mm. long, sparsely glandular- 
pubescent, often spotted with reddish-purple, distinctly angled, 
accrescent, the mature calyx campanulate, 1-1.2 em. long, con- 
stricted at the throat and with more or less thickened, corky ribs, 
teeth triangular-acute, 2-3 mm. long, equal, spreading, not 
ciliate ; corolla 1.6-2.5 em. long, somewhat bilabiate, tube usually 
included, throat short, broad, funnelform, the ridges densely 
pubescent and spotted with red, lobes emarginate, the lower 
spreading, yellow, dotted with red and somewhat longer than the 
white upper one ; stamens included, filaments slender, broad, 
glabrous, anthers hispid on the back; style slightly exserted, 
glabrous, stigma oblong with unequal, fimbriate lips; capsule 
oblong-linear, obtuse, placentae adherent to the apex; seeds oval, 
reticulate 
Distribution: common in meadows and along damp roadsides, 
from 2000-5000 ft. alt., throughout the Sierra Nevada Mts., 
California, | 
