F1QWORT FAMILY. Scrophularlaceae. 



purplish-pink corolla, streaked with magenta, with yellow 

 ridges on the lower lip and plaits inside the throat. They 

 look exceedingly pretty on the pale sand of the Mojave 

 Desert. 



There are several varieties of this 



!r mmon J ellow common and attractive plant, some tall 



Monkey-flower 



Mimulus an d robust, others very short. The stems 



Langsddrfii are smooth, not sticky, thickish and pale, 



Yellow sometimes branching, about a foot tall, 



Spring, summer and th leayes are f rom Qne to three inch 

 Southwest, Utah, 



etc long, smooth, or slightly downy, especially 



on the under side of the upper leaves, and 

 usually bright green, the veins prominent on the back, the 

 upper leaves without leaf -stalks and more or less clasping, 

 the lower ones with leaf-stalks varying in length. The 

 flowers are from three-quarters of an inch to two inches 

 long, clear bright yellow, the throat nearly closed and hairy, 

 usually with some dark red dots between the hairy ridges 

 on the lower lip. This grows in wet places in the mountains 

 and in canyons, is widely distributed in the West, and has 

 now strayed as far east as Connecticut. 



This plant is more or less hairy and 

 Mimulus seems to be wet all over with slimy dew 



mosch&tus and smells of musk. When the stems are 



Yellow cut and put in water a slimy sort of muci- 



Spring, summer { drj frQm th Jt j about t 



W^6St BtC 



inches tall, with rather pretty yellow 

 flowers, barely an inch long, with some hairs and reddish 

 specks in the throat. This is widely distributed, in we' 

 places, from Ontario westward. 



There are numerous kinds of Orthocarpus, many o: 

 them Californian, difficult to distinguish. Like Castilleja 

 their upper leaves often pass into colored bracts and the 

 calyx is colored, but the corolla is not similar, for the upper 

 lip is small and the three-lobed lower lip is swollen and 

 conspicuous; calyx short, four-cleft; stamens four, two of 

 them short, enclosed in the upper lip; style long, with 

 round- top stigma; leaves without leaf -stalks, usually al- 

 ternate, often cut into three to five narrow divisions; fruit 

 an oblong capsule with many seeds. Perhaps it is called 

 Owl's-clover because, in some kinds, the flowers look like 

 the faces of owls. 



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