THE FIGWORT FAMILY. 463 



SQUARE=STEMiVlED MONKEY=FLOWER. 



Mimulus ringois. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Fig-wort. Bliie^ violet or white. Scentless. Texas and I'ennessee June-September. 



to Nova Scotia. 



Flo7vers : solitary; axillary; hanging from slender peduncles. Calyx : with five 

 lanceolate teeth. Corolla: irregular, cylindric, the limb two-lipped; the upper lip 

 being divided into two erect or reflexed lobes, the lower one into three, spreading, 

 rounded lobes. Stamens: four, on the corolla-tube. Pistil: one, style ihrcad-likc. 

 Leaves : opposite ; lanceolate ; clasping at the base or sessile; serrate ; smooth. 

 Stems : erect; one to three feet high strongly four-angled ; branched. 



Whoever murmured when he found this mimic actor, this little buffoon 

 among the flowers.^ Gladly rather we say with delight, " There it is," and 

 slip it from the surrounding grass that we may examine carefully its saucy 

 face. And no one speaks with a smile of those that so quickly fall from the 

 stem. The best way to do that one may get a long look at it. is to carry 

 home the buds and place them in water, \vhen all in good time they 

 will unfold. In swampy places and by streams it has often for its associ- 

 ates other such common members of the figworts as the hedge-hyssops, 

 gratiola aurea and viscosa, both bearing small yellow or purplish flowers, 

 and the long and short-stalked false pimpernels, Ilysanthes gratioloides and 

 Ilysanthes attenuata, with small, rather insignificant, purplish flowers. 



FERN=LEAVED, OR LOUSEWORT FALSE FOXGLOVE. 



Dasy stoma Pedicularia. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIMEOFBLOOM' 



Figiuort. Yellotu. Scentless. Missouri and Florida to Maine. Aitt^ust,S*/>te>nl>er. 



Floxvers : mostly appearing opposite, growing on slender ascending pedicels. 

 Calyx: campanulate; short, with five deeply cleft lobes. Corolla: slightly ir- 

 regular campanulate, with five short, rounded lobes, woolly in the throat and 

 without pubescent. Stamens: four, their filaments woollv. Style: thread-like, 

 two-lobed. Lea7'es : opposite; sessile, ovate-lanceolate ; pinnately lobed, tlie seg- 

 ments being incised or dentate. Stem: about two feet high; much branched; 

 pubescent and viscid. 



Among those plants that we know well are the foxgloves, holding their 

 golden bloom through the autumn and appearing to flourish from the dry, 

 sandy soil of Florida to that of Maine. In the south especially they grow 

 in profusion and are most welcome when elderberries are beginning to ripen 

 and leaves are coiling up to show their undersides already spotted with red. 

 Then here and there their bright glints of yellow appear cheerful indeed. 

 As are some of the gerardias, they are partly parasitic on the roots of other 

 plants and have also not two-lipped but rather irregularly lobed corollas. 



These native species through their resemblance to old-world relatives 



