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FIGWORT FAMILY. 



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5. Mimulus moschatus 



Dougl. 



Musk-plant. (Fig. 3269.) 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. pi. 1118. 



Musk-flower. 



Mimulus moschatus Dougl.; 



1827. 



Perennial, villous-pubescent, viscid, musk-sccnted; 



stems creeping and ascending, branched, slender, 6'- 



I2 / long. Leaves ovate or oblong, short-petioled, acute 



or obtuse at the apex, denticulate, rounded or subcor- 



date at the base, i / -2 / long, 5 // -i2 // wide; peduncles 



slender, longer than the calyx; flowers 1/ long or less; 



calyx-teeth lanceolate, acuminate; corolla yellow, 2-3 



times as long as the calyx. 



In wet places, Locust Valley, Long Island; Middle 

 Grove, Saratoga Co., N. Y.; Alma, N. B. (according to 

 Macoun). Adventive from the Pacific Coast. June-Sept. 



12. 



CON OB E A Aubl. PI. Guian. 2: 639. 

 pi. 258. 1775. 



Herbs, with opposite pinnately parted pinnatifid 



incised or serrate leaves, and small blue or white 



peduucled flowers, solitary or two together in the axils. Calyx 5-parted, the segments 



narrow, equal. Corolla irregular, the tube cylindric, the limb 2-lipped; upper lip emar- 



ginate or 2-lobed; lower lip3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, included; filaments 



filiform; anther-sacs parallel, not confluent. Style incurved at the summit; stigma 2-lamel- 



late. Capsule globose, oblong or linear, septicidally dehiscent, the valves entire or 2-cleft. 



Seeds numerous, oblong, striate. [Guiana name.] 



About 8 species, natives of America. Besides the following, another occurs in the southwestern 

 United States. 



i. Conobea multifida (Michx.) Benth. 

 Conobea. (Fig. 3270.) 



Capraria multifida Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 22. pi. 33. 



1803. 

 Conobea multifida Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 391. 1846. 



Annual, finely viscid-pubescent; stem at length 



diffusely branched, 4 / -8 / high, very leafy. Leaves 



petiolcd, l />'-\' long, pinnately parted into 3-7 



linear or linear-oblong obtuse entire or incised seg- 



ments; flowers greenish-white, 2 // -2 



1/// 



long, 



1755- 



mostly solitary in the opposite axils, about as long 

 as their filiform peduncles; calyx-segments linear- 

 subulate, slightly shorter than the corolla; capsule 

 narrowly ovoid, glabrous, about equalling the 

 calyx; seeds longitudinally striate. 



Along streams and rivers, Ohio to Iowa and Kansas, 

 south to Kentucky and Texas. Introduced along the 

 Delaware below Philadelphia. June-Sept. 



13. MONNIERA P. Br. Civ. & Nat. Hist. Jam. 269. pi. 28. f. 3. 

 [HERPESTIS Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 3: 186. pi. 214. 1805.] 

 Erect diffuse or prostrate herbs, with opposite entire serrate, or, in some aquatic species, 

 dissected leaves, and small yellow blue white or variegated peduncled flowers, mostly soli- 

 tary in the axils. Calyx 5-parted, the upper segment the broadest. Corolla irregular or 

 nearly regular, the tube cylindric, the limb more or less 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed; lower 

 lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anther-sacs parallel or divergent. Style 

 slender; stigma capitate, or 2-lobed. Capsule globose or ovoid, septicidally or loculicidally 

 dehiscent. Seeds numerous. [Named for Louis Guillaume le Monnier, 1713-1799, professor 

 of botany in the Jardin du Roi, Paris.] 



About 60 species, natives of warm and tropical regions. In addition to the following, 2 others 

 occur in the southern United States. 



Corolla almost regular, 5-lobed; leaves spatulate. 1. 

 Corolla manifestly 2-lipped. 



Stem erect; leaves serrate, not clasping, black in drying. 2. 

 Stem creeping or ascending; leaves entire or crenulate, clasping. 



Leaves ovate, punctate. 3. 



Leaves obovate or orbicular, not punctate. 4. 



M. Monniera. 

 M. acuminata. 



M. Caroliniana. 

 M. rotundifolia. 



