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256 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Distribution: known only from southern California. 
Specimens examined: 
California: Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., June, 1886, 
Parish & Parish 1862 (Stanford, түре); Bear Valley, San 
Bernardino Mts., 6800 ft. alt., 10 June, 1922, Munz 5651 
(Pomona); Grant Creek, San Bernardino Mts., 3 June, 1901, 
Parish 4903 (Stanford); dry ground near Lake, Big Bear 
Valley, San Bernardino Mts., 6500 ft. alt., 4 July, 1920, 
Harwood 4349 (Pomona); San Jacinto, 1892, Gregory (Calif.). 
'This species has been confused with M. Palmeri from which 
it may be separated by its short leafy stems, its short internodes, 
and the numerous very long, erect pedicels. 
62a. Var. pauxillus Grant! 
Plants much smaller than the species and less branched, the 
stems 1-3 em. long; pedicels mostly erect, usually longer than the 
rest of the plant; calyx 3-4 mm. long, campanulate, not angled, 
more strikingly colored red and green than in the species, teeth 
with a scarious margin, rarely mucronate; corolla 1-1.4 cm. long, 
more or less spotted and tinged with yellow, the tube very 
slender. 
Distribution: known only from the type locality. 
Specimens examined: 
Mexico: 
Lower California: San Pedro Martir, 15 May, 1893, T. S. Bran- 
degee (Сі, TYPE, and Т). S.). : 
The dwarf size of this variety and the color of the calyx dis- 
tinguish it from any closely related species. 
63. M. exiguus Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 307. pin 
Fl. №. Am. ed. 2, 2: Suppl. 451. 1886; Greene in Bull. i. 
Acad. Sci. 1: 122. 1885; Conzatti & Smith, Fl. Sin. Mex. ^^ 
1897. 
A low glabrous annual with very slender, erect, reddish € v" 
3-10 em. high, simple or more often diffusely branched; 
11 Mimulus purpureus var. pauxillus Grant, var. nov., herbae minores; 
1-3 em. longis; pediculis plerumque caulibus longioribus; calyce 3-4 mm. epe 
non angulato; corolla 1-1.4 em. longa.—Collected at San Pedro 5 Ne talo 
