278 SCROPHULARIACE^. Mimulus. 



= = Cauline leaves mainly closely sessile by a broad base. 

 M. inconspicuus, Gray. Glabrous, 2 to 7 inches high, simple or branched from the 

 base: leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, somewhat 3-5-nerved (quarter to half inch 

 long) : pedicels as long as flower : corolla 5 lines long, with rather small limb, yellow 

 or rose-color : fructiferous calyx oval, 4 or 5 lines long, appearing as if truncate ; the 

 teeth very short. — Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 120, & Bot. Calif. 1. c— Damp hillsides or rocks, 

 Los Angeles to the Sacramento, California, Bigelow, &c. 



== = == Cauline leaves sessile or nearly so by a narrowed obscurely 3-nerved base : plants 

 minutely viscid-pubescent or glandular, erect, branched from the base, from 2 to 10 inches high. 

 M. bicolor, Benth. Viscid-pubescent: leaves lanceolate or linear-oblong, sometimes 

 spatulate, mostly denticulate, an inch long or less ; the upper shorter than the pedicels : 

 corolla half to three-fourths inch long, with ample limb, yellow, or lower lip commonly 

 white : calyx narrowly oblong, purple-dotted, in fruit 4 lines long; the teeth comparatively 

 large (a line long), triangular, acute. — PI. Hartw. 328; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 568. M. 

 Prattenii.'DuTa.nd in Jour. Acad. Philad. n. ser. ii. 98. — Calif ornia, through the foot-hills of 

 the Sierra Nevada. 

 M. Palmeri, Gray. Viscid, but hardly at all pubescent : leaves lanceolate or the lower 

 spatulate, mostly entire, half inch or so long, all shorter than the filiform pedicels : 

 corolla nearly three-fourths inch long, ample-funnelform, crimson, thrice the length of the 

 calyx; the lobes all about equal and equally spreading: fructiferous calyx 3 or 4 lines 

 long, narrowly oblong; the teeth broad and obtuse. — Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 82. — S. E. 

 California, on the Mohave River, Palmer, Parry & Lemmon. Corolla in shape and color as 

 of the Eunanus section, foliage, aspect, and capsule of the present group. 

 M. rubellus, Gray. Viscid and sometimes pubescent : leaves from spatulate-oblong to 

 linear, entire, rarely with a few salient teeth, a quarter to two-thirds inch long, commonly 

 equalling the pedicels; the lower sometimes obovate or ovate: corolla 3 or 4 lines long, 

 from one-third to twice the length of the calyx, yellow or rose-color, sometimes yellow 

 varying or changing to crimson-purple : fructiferous calyx oblong, 3 lines long ; its teeth 

 mostly short and obtuse. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 116, & Bot. Calif. I.e.; Watson, Bot. 

 King, 225. M. montioides, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 380, in part. — Gravelly moist banks, 

 "Washington Terr, to Arizona, Colorado, and E. New Mexico, chiefly in the mountains. 



Var. latiflorus, Watson, 1. c. Stems an mch or two high : leaves from linear to 

 oblanceolate : corolla yellow, half to two-thirds inch long, with slender exserted tube, funnel- 

 form throat spotted with brown-purple, and comparatively large limb, resembling that of 

 M. bicolor. — M. montioides, Gray, 1. c, mainly. — W. Nevada, on the eastern side of the 

 Sierra Nevada, &c., Anderson, &c. Adopted in this form in Bot. Calif. 1. c. ; but probably 

 a distinct species. 



-1- -I— Leafy-stemmed, villous and viscid, diffuse : leaves membranaceous, more or less pinnately- 

 veined and petioled, denticulate or serrate: corolla nan-ow, light yellow: calyx slightly if at all 

 oblique ; the teeth nearly equal. 

 M. floribundus, Dougl. About a span high from an annual root, flowering from 

 almost the lowest axils, at first erect, the lateral branches diffusely spreading: leaves 

 ovate and the lower subcordate, an inch long or less ; the upper shorter than the some- 

 what racemose pedicels : calyx short-campafnulate, becoming ovate or oblong and truncate 

 in fruit, 3 or 4 lines long ; the teeth short and triangular : corolla 3 to hardly 6 lines long, 

 about twice the length of the calyx: capsule globose-ovate, obtuse. — Lindl. Bot Reg. t. 

 1125; Benth. in DC. I. c. 372; Gray, 1. c. M. peduncidaris, Dougl. in Benth. Scroph. Ind. 

 29. Cupraria pusilla, Torr. in Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. 36. — Moist soU, Rocky Mountains of 

 Colorado and Wyoming to California and Oregon. 

 M. moschatus, Dougl. (Musk Plant.) More villous and viscous, musk-scented: 

 stems spreading and creeping, thus perennial, a foot or so long : leaves oblong-ovate, an 

 inch or two long, mostly exceeding the pedicels : calyx short-prismatic, oblong-campanu- 

 late in fruit, 4 or 5 lines long; the teeth half the length of the tube, broadly lanceolate 

 and acuminate, somewhat unequal : corolla usually two-thirds inch long and barely twice 

 the length of the calyx: capsule ovate, acute. — Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1118; Benth. 1. c; 

 Gray, I. c. — Wet places, along brooks, British Columbia to California and Utah. 



Var. longiflorus. Corolla elongated, reaching an inch in length, thrice the length 

 of the calyx: later peduncles surpassing the leaves. — The usual form in California, also 

 in Oregon. 



