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flowers, each with two bright yellow patches 

 in the throat. 



Mimulus Smooth, stems flattened, de- 

 cumbent and rooting at the 



Greene. 



Yellow nodes, the branches rising 3-6 



Monkey- inches high. Leaves orbicular or 

 flower. ovate, J-i inch long, dentate or 



denticulate, usually sublyrate, purple beneath. 

 Flowers axillary on long peduncles ; calyx cam- 

 panulate, ^ of an inch long, mottled with dark 

 purple; corolla bright yellow, f-i inch long, 

 throat spotted with dark red, lobes of the up- 

 per lip erect, J-J an inch long, the middle lobe 

 of the lower lip broadly cordate, pendulous. 



In wet, gravelly soil around springs and in 

 the beds and banks of alpine brooks, through 

 the Selkirks, often forming large patches; 

 flowering in July. 



Mimulus Hairy with soft and glandular 

 moschatus hairs, musk scented ; stems creep- 

 Dougl. i n g or ascending, branched, slen- 



Musk Plant. -. ^ -11 T 



der, 6-12 inches long. Leaves 



ovate or oblong, short petioled, acute or 



