Figwort Family 367 



elongated; calyx broadly campanulate, its teeth acute, very 

 unequal, the upper one twice the length of the others ; corolla 

 about 1.5 cm. long, little surpassing the calyx, deep yellow, with 

 or without a large purple blotch on the lower lip. 



Common along streams in the mountains and foothills below the pine 

 belt. April-August. 



10. M. microphyllus Benth. Annual, glabrous below, some- 

 what pubescent above ; stems terete, slender, with ascending 

 branches or commonly simple, 1-3 dm. high; flowers in short 

 racemes or in depauperate forms, solitary ; leaves ovate to orbicu- 

 lar, often cordate at the base, denticulate or coarsely toothed ; 

 peduncles slender; calyx often dotted, oblique at the orifice; the 

 teeth obscure or prominent, the upper one largest; corolla 1-2 

 cm. long, throat rather narrow, the limb broad, usually without 

 purple dots. 



Occasional along streams in the pine belt of all our mountains. June- 

 August. 



9. MIMETANTHE Greene. 



Erect branching annual, with long villous white hairs, 

 opposite leaves, and small yellow flowers. Calyx short- 

 campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, its tube slightly 5-sulcate, 

 not prismatic angled. Corolla obscurely bilabiate, its 

 lobes plane. Stamens 4, 2-fertile. Capsule pointed, 

 loculicidal, dehiscent the whole length of the upper 

 side and on the lower side along the apical attenuation. 



1. M. pilosa (Benth.) Greene. At length much branched, 

 leafy, flowering from near the base, 1-3 dm. high, herbage glan- 

 dular-viscid ; leaves lanceolate or narrowly oblong-ovate, entire, 

 sessile; flowers on slender pedicels; the upper tooth of calyx 

 much longer than the others, equaling the tube ; corolla yellow, 

 the lower lobes usually with brown spots, slightly exceeding the 

 calyx, 6-8 mm. long ; capsule oblong-ovate, attenuate. (Mimulus 

 exilis Durand.) 



Frequent along streams in the valleys and in the mountains. May- 

 August. 



10. VERONICA L. SPEEDWELL. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with opposite and alter- 

 nate, rarely verticillate leaves, and mostly small terminal 



