Mimulus. SCROPHULARIACE^. 275 



Var. bicolor, Gray, 1. c. A doubtful and insufficiently known form ; with throat of 

 corolla short and abruptly dilated, dark purple ; the limb yellow. — Eunanus bicolor, Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 381. — High Sierra Nevada in Fresno Co., Brewer. 



M. Fremonti, Gray, 1. c. Leaves narrowly oblong or the lowest spatulate, obtuse : 

 calyx-teeth ovate, obtuse or acutish (less than a line long), less than a quarter the length of 

 the tube, surpassing the proper tube of the crimson corolla.— Eunanus Fremonti, Benth. 

 I. c. — California, from Santa Barbara Co. southward and eastward, first coll. by Fremont. 

 ++ ++ Calyx decidedly oblique at the orifice : the teeth unequal, reaching to the base of the f un- 

 nelform throat of the corolla : stem rather slender : leaves quite entire. 



M. Parryi, Gray, 1. c. Not pubescent, minutely glandular, 2 to 4 inches high : leaves 

 oblong or oblanceolate, half inch long : teeth of the campanulate calyx, acute ; the upper 

 and larger one ovate; the others subulate from a broad base, a third or fourth the length 

 of the tube : corolla yellow or pink, two-thirds inch long : capsule oblong-lanceolate, not 

 surpassing the calyx. — St. George, S. Utah, on gravelly hills, Parri/. 



M. Torreyi, Gray, I.e. Viscid-pubescent, a -span to a foot high, simple or loosely 

 branching: leaves oblong or almost lanceolate, sometimes an inch long: calyx-teeth all 

 broad and obtuse ; the posterior one larger and barely a line long : corolla half to three- 

 fourths inch long, pink-purple : capsule chartaceous, lanceolate-oblong. — Eunanus Fremonti, 

 Gray in Pacif. R. Rep. vi. 83, not Benth. — California, through the Sierra Nevada, at 

 4,000 feet and upwards, from Mariposa Co. northward, first coll. by Newbeiry. 

 +-;•*—-'— Corolla large and wide, an inch or more long, with proper tube very shoi-t and included 

 m the calyx: teeth of the latter very unequal: stem simpler and taller: leaves often acutely 

 dentate or denticulate with salient teeth. (Transition to Eumimulus.) 



M. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. A foot or less high, viscid-pubescent : leaves oblong, an inch 

 or two in length ; the lower surpassing the flowers : teeth of the very oblique calyx lan- 

 ceolate ; the posterior and longer one 3 lines long and half the length of the oblong 

 tube : corolla purple, an inch long, cylindraceous : capsule fusiform-subulate, somewhat 

 coriaceous. — M. brevipes. Gray in Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 120; not Benth. — California, in foot- 

 hills and lower part of the Sierra Nevada. 



M. brevipes, Benth. A foot or two high, very viscid-pubescent : leaves from lanceo- 

 late to linear, 1 to 4 inches long : calyx-teeth very unequal, acuminate ; the posterior fully 



'■ half the length of the broadly campanulate tube: corolla yellow, sometimes H inches 

 long, and the expanded limb nearly as broad, campanulate, with ample rounded lobes : 

 capsule ovate, acuminate, firm-coriaceous. — DC. Prodr. x. 369; Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 116. — Calif ornia, from Monterey to San Diego and San Bernardino. 



§ 2. DiPLACUS, Gray. Shrubby, glutinous ; with flowers as of the following 

 and capsule of the preceding section : tube of the funnelform corolla about the 

 length of the narrow prismatic carinate-angled calyx : style glandular : stigma 

 bilamellar: placentae meeting but even in the ovary not united in the axis, in 

 dehiscence borne on the linear firm-coriaceous valves. — Diplacus, Nutt. in Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 137 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 368. 



M. glutinosus, Wendl. Shrub 2 to 6 feet high, nearly glabrous but glutinous : leaves 

 from narrowly oblong to linear, from denticulate to entire (1 to 4 inches long), at length 

 with revolute margins : flowers 1| to 2 inches long, short-pedicelled : corolla usually buff 

 or salmon-color, obscurely bilabiate ; the spreading lobes laciniately toothed or notched. — 

 Obs. 51; Jacq. Schcenbr. iii. t. 264; Gray, I.e. M. aurantiacus. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 354. 

 Biplacus glutinosus & D. latifoUus, Nutt. 1. c. D. stellatus, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 18. — 

 Rocky banks, &,c., California, common from San Francisco southward. Runs into many 

 varieties, such as 



Var. puniceus. Gray, 1. c. Flowers from orange-red to scarlet, often slender-pedi- 

 celled: corolla-lobes commonly obcordate. — Diplacus puniceus, 'Swit. I.e.; Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3655. D. glutinosus, var. puniceus, Benth. in DC. 1. c. "VV. California. 



Var. linearis. Gray, 1. c. Flowers very short-pedicelled, red-brown to salmon- 

 color: calyx commonly pubescent: leaves linear, more rigid, and revolute-margined. — M. 

 linearis, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 27. Diplacus leptanthus, Nutt. 1. c. ; Benth. 1. c. — From Mon- 

 terey southward. 



