BOTANICAL NOTES. 261 



Bryant, from Guadalupe Island, and by Mr. Brandegee, 

 from Santa Craz Island, proves not to be so different from 

 the rest of the section as was supposed, the tube of the 

 corolla below the expanded throat being nearly twice the 

 length of the calyx. 



§ Eqnanus Gray. 



Of the species properly belonging to this section, most of 

 them running too closely together, and probably by ample 

 collections and more study reducible at least by one-half, the 

 following have their capsules in dehiscence separated by the 

 whole length of the posterior suture, remaining coherent by 

 the Avhole or the greater length of the anterior one— 71/. 

 brevi'pes, Bolanderi, Tovreyi, Raltani, subseciuidus, Laynece, 

 Blgelovii, Parryi, Fremontl, nanus and Aastince. 



M. mephiticus and 31. leptaleus — if correctly identified — 

 open to the base by both sutures, and M. Whitneyi is too 

 scantily represented in our herbarium to admit of study. 



§ EuiMiMULUS Gray, including Mlmuloides Gray, Erytli- 

 ranthe and Simiolus Greene. 



* Placenta, more or less separated at the top, in one 

 species nearly to the base. 



M. rubellus (including Eananus Breiueri), Suksdor/ii, 

 montioides, Palmerl ( including exiguus d: androsaceus ), 

 primidoides, cardinalis , Lewisii, Parishii and pilosus. 



M. PEIMULOIDES Benth. — This plant is not always scapose, 

 especially at lower altitudes, often having a stem as long as 

 the peduncles with 6-9 pairs of leaves and two or more 

 peduncles springing from different axils. I have not ob- 

 served it to be viscid or slimy, though growing in damp 

 meadows; its long hairs are dewy in the morning and wet 

 the hands when passed over it. 



