FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



Scarlet Monkey- 

 flower 

 Mimulus 

 cardindlis 

 Red 



Spring, summer 

 Southwest. Oreg. 



An exceedingly handsome kind, some- 

 times nearly five feet high, much like the 

 last, but with vivid scarlet corollas, 

 decidedly two-lipped, the upper lip erect 

 and the lower lobes turned back, the 

 stamens protruding from the tube. I 

 first saw these gorgeous flowers glowing 

 like bits of flame among the ferns and grasses that bordered 

 a beautiful spring in a cave in the Grand Canyon, where 

 icy water fell on them drop by drop through a crevice in 

 the rocky roof far above them and kept them glistening 

 with moisture. This is often cultivated in gardens. 



A charming little plant, from three to 

 six inches tall, with pretty delicate flowers, 

 from half an inch to an inch long, the 

 corolla-lobes all alike, bright yellow, often 

 dotted with crimson, growing singly on 

 the tips of very slender flower-stalks, 

 springing from a cluster of bright yellow- 

 ish-green leaves, usually toothed, smooth, or sometimes 

 hairy. This grows in moist mountain meadows. 



A delicate little plant, from three inches 

 to a foot high, rather hairy and sticky, 

 with very slender branching stems, 

 yellowish-green, toothless leaves, and 

 bright flowers, about three-quarters of an 

 inch long, with almost no flower-stalks; 

 the corolla-lobes pink, veined with purple, the tube 

 crimson, with two yellow ridges in the throat. A patch of 

 these little flowers scattered over a sandy slope in Yosemite, 

 sometimes growing with a tiny blue and white Lupine 

 that likes the same sort of place, is an exceedingly pretty 

 sight. It grows in the mountains, preferring moderate 

 altitudes, becoming lower and deeper in color in higher 

 places. 



A charming little plant, something 

 like the last but prettier, three or four 

 inches tall, with very slender, stiff, pur- 

 plish, branching stems and smooth, thickish, 

 light green leaves, purplish on the under 

 side. The flowers are nearly an inch 

 across, with a hairy calyx and bright 

 494 



Little Yellow 



Monkey-flower 



Mimulus 



primuloides 



Yellow 



Summer 



Cal., Oreg. 



Little Pink 



Monkey-flower 



Mimulus Torreyi 



Pink 



Summer 



California 



Desert Monkey- 

 flower 

 Mimulus 

 Fremontii 

 Pink 

 Spring 

 California 



