Figwort Family 365 



"* Flowers sessile or nearly so; style pubescent or glandular. 



1. M. Bigelovii Gray. Low annual branching from the base, 

 glandular pubescent ; leaves oblong, the upper ovate, acute or 

 acuminate ; calyx-teeth nearly equal, very acutely subulate from 

 a broad campanulate tube; corolla about 1.5 cm. long, the limb 

 rotate, crimson with yellow center ; the throat cylindraceous ; 

 capsule oblong-lanceolate, slightly exceeding the calyx, valves 

 membranaceous. 



Occasional in the pine belt of the San Gabriel Mountains. June-August. 



2. M. Fremont! (Benth.) Gray. Leaves narrowly oblong or 

 the lowest spatulate, obtuse ; calyx-teeth ovate, obtuse or acutish, 

 less than a quarter the length of the tube; corolla crimson; 

 otherwise as in the last. 



Frequent in sandy places in the interior valleys. April-May. 



3. M. brevipes Benth. Stem simple or branched, 3-6 dm. 

 high, very viscid-pubescent; leaves lanceolate to linear, 3-10 cm. 

 long, entire or commonly denticulate; calyx-teeth very unequal, 

 acuminate, the posterior fully half the length of the broadly cam- 

 panulate tube; corolla yellow, 2.5-4 cm. long, the expanded 

 limb nearly as broad, campanulate, with ample rounded lobes ; 

 capsule ovate-acuminate, firm-coriaceous. 



Common on the dry plains and in the foothills. March-June. 



** Flowers on slender pedicels ; styles glabrous. 

 *- Herbage viscid-pubescent. 



4. M. cardinalis Dougl. Perennial, 8 dm. high ; branched 

 from the base, with ascending branches, viscid-pubescent; leaves 

 elliptic-ovate, 5 cm. long or more, dentate, sessile; pedicels 

 longer than the flowers ; calyx with equal triangular teeth ; co- 

 rolla scarlet, 3-5 cm. long, the throat yellowish with crimson 

 lines, the tube little exserted, upper lip erect, deeply 2-lobed, the 

 sides turned back until they meet, lower lip deeply 3-lobed, the 

 lateral lobes reflexed, the middle lobe spreading. 



Frequent along streams in the foothills and mountains below the pine 

 belt. May-August. 



5. M. moschatus Dougl. Soft-villous and very viscid, musk- 

 scented ; stems weak and reclining, rooting at the nodes, 2-6 dm. 

 long, from perennial creeping rootstocks; leaves oblong-ovate, 

 About 2.5 cm. long, remotely dentate, petiolate; calyx-teeth 



