522 SCROPHULARIACEX MIMULUS 
cid-puberulent or pubescent annual : stem slender, 6-18 inches high : leaves 
ovate to lanceolate, the blade 4-6 lines long, usually acute, abruptly con- 
tracted into rather broad petioles, purple beneath and ‘prominently 3-5- 
veined from the base: peduncles slender, 1-2 inches long, erect or ascend- 
ing: calyx tubular-campanulate, about 4 lines long, truncate at the apex, 
the short acute teeth equal: corolla yellow, 5-10 lines long, the pubescent 
lines extending to the base of the throat: capsule oblanceolate, very short- 
stipitate, cbcompressed: seeds globular. In moist shady places, eastern 
Oregon and Washington. 
M. Suksdorfii Gray Syn. Fl Supp. 450.. A small annual 1-3 inches 
high; whole herbage often reddish-hued; obscurely puberulent-viscidulous : 
leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear, 3-6 lines long, thickish, entire, narrowed 
below but scarcely petioled: peduncles filiform, usually shorter than the 
leaves: calyx tubular-campanulate, in fruit 3-4 lines long, truncate at the 
apex, the short and broad teeth all equal: corolla yellow or reddish, about 
3 lines long, little exserted from the calyx the limb less than 2 lines wide 
all 5 lobes obcordate-emarginate; throat beardless or nearly so. Bare. 
places on mountains, eastern Washington to California and Utah. 
M. rubellus Gray Bot Mex. Bound. 116: Small annual 1-6 inches 
high: very minutely and rather sparingly glandular-puberulent but not 
viscid : leaves narrowly oblong, entire or with a few prominent teeth, nar- 
rowed at base but sessile, 6-10 lines long.: peduncles very slender, exceed- 
ing the leaves: calyx cylindraceous, the teeth oblong, obtuse, ciliolate, 
equal: corolla rose-color to yellow, 3-4 lines long, the unequal lobes scarcely 
spreading. In moist places, eastern Washington to California, Colorado 
and New Mexico. 
M. floribundus Dougl. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1225. Villous with spread- 
ing white hairs and viscid: stem rather slender, 2-20 inches long, at first 
erect, but soon decumbent and diffusely spreading, flowering from the 
lowest axils: root annual: leaves ovate, or the lower subcordate, the blade 
6-12 lines long rather coarsely toothed, all petioled: peduncles spreading, 
about an inch long, exceeding the leaves: calyx campanulate, ahout 3 lines 
long, the short triangular acute teeth nearly equal; corolla about 6 lines 
long, light yellow, funnelform: capsule globose-ovoid, obtuse, sessile: 
seeds almost globular, light-colored. On wet banks and shady places, 
Washington to California and the Rocky Mountains. 
M. moschatus Dougl. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1118. Conspicuously villous 
and viscid throughout: stems slender, weak and declined or ascending, 
6-18 inches long: leaves broadly ovate 1-2 inches long, all petioled: spar- 
ingly dentate: peduncles slender, an inch long, shorter than the leaves: 
calyx tubular, 6 lines long, the subulate teeth subequal, half as long as the 
tube: corolla yellow, the narrow throat about 14 longer than the calyx the 
lobes nearly equal and rotately spreading; the throat striate and spotted 
with maroon, the pubescent lines not extended to the base: stamens not 
exserted: capsule lanceolate, acute: seeds globular. In springy places, 
Brit. Columbia to Oregon and the Rocky Mountains. 
M. primuloides Benth. Scroph. Ind. 29. Stems 44-3 inches high, 
glabrous or pilose-pubescent with white hairs: perennial by stolons: leaves 
ovate to broadly lanceolate, entire or more or less dentate, narrowed below 
but sessile, 6-12 lines long, glabrous both sides: peduncles filiform, 2-4 
inches long. erect, usually only one to each stem: calyx tubular-campan- 
ulate, 3-4 lines long, the broad acute teeth all equal: corolla yellow, about 
8 lines long, funnelform; lobes of the almost regular limb deeply emargin- 
ate or obcordate. In mountain marshes, eastern Washington to California. 
M. pilosellus Greene Eryth. iv, 22. Very small and depressedt stems 
2-6 lines high: perennial by stolons: leaves obovate to oblong, 2-6 lines 
