no PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



sought-for specimens that it may be, gladden his mind ; but on 

 approaching it he finds the little buffoon. Fooled again, he 

 laments, and the one in his buttonhole has dropped off from 

 its stem. For all of these are the pranks of the monkey-flower. 



CARDINAL MONKEY-FLOWER. (Plate LI.) 



Mimulus cardinalis. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Fig^uort. Bright, brick red. Scentless. West of Minnesota. Summer. 



Flowers : solitary ; axillary. Calyx: prism-shaped ; five-toothed. Corolla: 

 funnel-formed; two-lipped. Stamens: four. Pistil: one. Leaves: opposite; 

 clasping: oblong; serrated. Stem: one to two feet high ; rather clammy. 



If possible, the M. cardinalis is even more impertinent than 

 the M. ringens. It is not quite so prankish, as its vermilion 

 red could not easily be mistaken for that of any other flower ; 

 but it has its lower lip thrust out as though it were making 

 faces at one. In fact, its manners in this respect are so bad 

 that we have quite a mind to pry into its up bringing. Then 

 we remember that it is one of the figworts and they are a fam- 

 ily that look as they please. 



TURTLE-HEAD. SNAKE-HEAD. (Plate Z/7.) 

 Chelbne glabra. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Figwort. Pinkish -white. Scentless. General. Late summer. 



Flowers: axillary; growing in spike-like racemes on a leafy flower-stalk. 

 Calyx : of five overlapping, green sepals with similar bract-like leaves under- 

 neath. Corolla: two-lipped; inflated; slightly open ; shaped like a turtle's 

 head; the upper lip slightly notched at the apex; the lower lip three-cleft with 

 the centre division appearing like a small tongue; delicately bearded in the 

 throat. Stamens: four, perfect with hairy filaments and united by woolly an- 

 thers that when touched let fly a misty pollen. A shorter, sterile stamen is 

 also present. Leaves : opposite ; long; lanceolate; serrated. Stem: smooth; 

 square; branching. 



The only thing that 'detracts from the turtle-like appearance 

 of these blossoms is their waxy, pinkish colouring. If they 

 had better imitated their patron in this respect it would have 

 been an excellent safeguard, as no one would have ventured his 

 fingers within reach of their snappish little tongues. They 



