3-2G B^IGWOKT FAMILY. 



M. semperfldrens, Ortega. Has lanceolate, smooth calyx divisions, and 

 smaller rose-purple or violet corolla. 



* * Corolla very obscurely 2-lipj)e(l, and tcUh 2 bearded lines. (Lopho- 



SrEHMUM.) 



M. erubescens, Gray. Somewhat soft-pubescent, witli irregularly 

 toothed leaves, rose-colored flowers 3' long, and ovate-oblong, ratlier 

 leaf-like sepals. 



M. scandens. Gray. Less common and not so showy, is less pubes- 

 cent, and has smaller, less-inflated, deeper purple corolla, and lance- 

 oblong sepals. 



12. DIGITALIS, FOXGLOVE. (Latin name, from shape of the 

 corolla, likuned to the finger of a glove, in the common species.) 



D. purpOrea, Linn. Corolla ranging from purple to white, and more or 

 less strongly spotted, 2' long, the lobes rather obscure; leaves rugose, 

 somewhat downy. Strong plants 2^-3", and declined flowers. Cult, from 

 Eu.; flowers summer. 21 



13. MIMULUS, MONKEY FLOWER. (From Greek for an ape, or 

 btiffoon, from the grinning corolla.) Flowers all summer. 



* Wild in iret places, loith erect {except in the third) square stem l°-2'^ 



iiiyh, oblong or roundish feather-veined serrate leaves. 11 



M- Flowers violet or prirple. 



M. ringens, Linn. Leaves clasping ; peduncles longer than the 

 flower ; calyx teeth taper-pointed. Wet places, common. 



M. alatus. Ait. Leaves tapering into a petiole ; peduncle shorter 

 than the calyx and short-toothed, and sharp wing-like angles to stem. 

 N. Eng. to 111., and S. „, 



-t- 1- Flotvers yellouK 



M. Jam^sii, Torr. & Gray. Diffuse, nearly or quite smooth, some- 

 what creeping plant, in springy places in Mich, and Minn., and S. W.; 

 stem leaves nearly sessile, and roundish or kidney-form. 



* * Cult, for ornament, chiefly in conservatories, from W. X. Amer. 



-1- Plant not glutinous, smooth. 



M. luteufi, Linn. Erect ; leaves ovate or cordate-clasping, several- 

 nerved ; flowers showy, yellow, often spotted with rose or brown ; of 

 many varieties, and common in cultivation. 



H- H- Plant ghitinous or clammy. 



M. moschatus, Dougl. Musk Plant. Weak and diffuse, rooting, 

 clainmy-villous, smelling strongly of musk; leaves ovate or oblong; 

 flower small, pale yellow. 2/ 



M. cardinalis, Dougl. Erect, clammy-pubescent ; leaves wedgc-oblong, 

 partly clasping, several-nerved ; flowers large, brick-red. H 



M. glutinbsus. Wendl. Shrubby conservatory plant from Cal., gluti- 

 nous-pubescent, with oblong or lanceolate leaves, and large yellow, orange, 

 or brick-red flower. 



14. TORENIA. {Olef Toren, a Swedi-sh botanist.) 



* Calyx wing-angled. 



y. Asi6iica, Linn. Cult, from India ; a handsome hothouse plant, with 

 flowers in sub-umbellate clusters, and lance-ovate, serrate leaves, and 



