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spring the slender flower-stalks bearing brilliant magenta blos- 

 soms. Each of these blossoms has a long green calyx, from 

 out of which comes the richly coloured tube, that spreads open 

 into two lips, the upper one being reflexed and two-lobed and 

 the lower one spreading and three-lobed. The throat has two 

 yellow patches inside and is covered with white hairs ; indeed, 

 the whole plant is extremely hairy and sticky, and has a sweet 

 sickly smell. 



The favourite haunt of the Red Monkey-flower is some 

 damp hollow, either in marshy ground or on the banks of an 

 alpine stream. Though never actually growing in the water, it 

 may frequently be found flourishing luxuriantly on those little 

 islands so common in the midst of mountain rivers, where, 

 sheltered by other large moisture -loving herbs, it attains a 

 height of from one to two feet. 



Mimuhis is the diminutive of the Latin viimiis, meaning 

 " a mimic actor," and alludes to the laughing face of the flower, 

 which appears to shoot out its ripe red lips in mockery at the 

 traveller as he passes by, opening its mouth in a droll grimace 

 that displays its yellow throat. Hence also the common name 

 Monkey-flower, given in allusion to the ape-like pertness of the 

 plant's appearance. Thus man has set a " cap and bells " upon 

 the Mimulus and appointed it buffoon to the Court of Nature. 



RED INDIAN PAINT-BRUSH 



Castilleia septentrioualis. Figwort Family 



Stems: simple. Leaves: alternate sessile, undulate or crenate, the 

 lower ones linear, the upper ones lanceolate, acuminate ; bracts oblong, 

 oval, obtuse, as long as the sessile flowers. Flowers: in dense, terminal, 

 leafly-bracted spikes ; corolla tubular, very irregular, not longer than 

 the calyx, its limb bilabiate ; calyx tubular, cleft on both sides to about 

 the middle, usually again two-cleft. 



This flower, though actually of a pale greenish-yellow colour, 

 is almost entirely enfolded in a long, tubular, greenish calyx, so 



