CRIMSON MONKEY FLOWER (Mimulus Bigelbvii, Gray). 

 Flowers about an inch long, crimson, with a yellow centre, 

 corolla funnel-form, the cylindrical tube' expanded into a 

 wheel-shaped limb about ^ inch in diameter; disposed mostly 

 in a terminal cluster. Leaves opposite, oblong, or ovate 

 nearly an inch long. A sticky-hairy annual, 3 or 4 inches tall, 

 of sandy places, Southern California and eastward in the 

 desert to Nevada and Utah, blooming in the spring. 



This charming little plant was first collected by Dr. John 

 M. Bigelow, botanist of the Whipple Pacific R. R. Survey. 

 It was given its specific name in honor of him, but assigned to 

 the genus Eunanus. This genus, however, is now generally 

 disregarded and its dozen or so species are considered as a sec- 

 tion of Mimulus. All are beautiful little annuals of California 

 and adjacent territory, the corollas purple, crimson, or occa- 

 sionally yellow, mostly with a rather slender tube, and the 

 anthers of the 4 stamens set closely together so as to form 

 crosses. 



Mimulus Douglasii, Gray, is a species frequently met with 

 throughout California on gravelly banks. Its crimson flow- 

 ers have a narrow tube an inch or more long, in the early state 

 much longer than the plant is high. 

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