MUWUKI FA/niLY. bcrophularfaceae. 



California Bee- 

 plant 



Scrophularia 

 <Calif6rnica 

 Rd, green 

 Spring, summer 

 Northwest, Cal. 



This is a coarse plant, smooth, or 

 rather sticky and hairy, with several stout, 

 square stems, and forming a large clump, ! 

 from two to six feet high. The little 

 flowers have a quaint appearance, but 

 are usually only about a quarter of an 

 inch long, with brownish-red or greenish 

 corollas, which are neither pretty nor conspicuous, but the 

 variety floribunda, cf southern California, has flowers , 

 which are nearly half an inch long, with rich red corollas, 

 handsome and brilliant in effect. These plants yield a 

 great deal of honey and are common and widely distributed. 

 There are several kinds of Diplacus, much resembling 

 Mimulus, except that they are shrubs, with evergreen j 

 leaves. 



When in full bloom, this is a handsome 

 and very conspicuous shrub, for the 

 flowers are numerous and unusual in 

 coloring, being usually a peculiar shade 

 of salmon-color, which at a distance gives 

 the effect in the landscape of some sort ! 



of exotic rhododendron. It is from two to 

 (varying from pale six f t h{ h hh dark gtick 



yellow to red) 

 Spring, summer usually toothless leaves, with their mar- 



California gins rolled back, dark sticky buds and 



large flowers, which are sometimes three 

 inches long, the corolla varying in color from almost white I 

 to scarlet, with a white stigma. They bloom more or less 

 all the year round and there are several similar, named 

 varieties. 



This is much like the last, and is often 

 very handsome. In the crevices of the 

 sea-cliffs at La Jolla it makes tangled 

 thickets of woody stems and dark green 

 foliage, ornamented with many scarlet or 

 rich deep-red flowers, with a velvety 

 surface like that of a pansy and with 

 orange ribs in the throat. This is common 

 throughout California. 



Sticky Monkey- 

 flower, 



Bush Monkey- 

 flower 



Diplacus longi- 

 florus (Mimulus) 

 Salmon-color 



Bush Monkey- 

 flower 



Diplacus puni- 

 ceus (Mimulus) 

 Red 



Spring, summer, 

 autumn 

 California 



