FIG WORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 





California Bee- 

 plant 



Scrophularia 

 Calif or nica 

 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, of 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 

 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 tc 



Sticky Monkey- 

 flower, 



Bush Monkey- 

 flower 



Diplacus longi- 

 flbrus (Mimulus) 

 Salmon-color 



(varying from pale six feet h{ h with dark 



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 

 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 ofter 

 very handsome. In the crevices of the 

 sea-cliffs at La Jolla it makes tangled 

 thickets of woody stems and dark greer 

 foliage, ornamented with many scarlet 01 

 rich deep- red flowers, with a velvetj 

 surface like that of a pansy and with 

 orange ribs in the throat. This is commor 

 throughout California. 



490 



Bush Monkey- 

 flower 



Diplacus puni- 

 ceus (Mimulus) 

 Red 



Spring, summer, 

 autumn 

 California 



