146 California Trees and Flowers. 
MIMULUS. 
M. CARDINALIS Dougl. A showy perennial species, with bril- 
liant large scarlet flowers. 
M. GLuTINosuS Wendi. A low shrub, with bright evergreen 
foliage and a profusion of buff or salmon colored showy flowers. 
M. mMoscHatus Dougl. Musk. A low, musk-scented plant, bear- 
ing large lemon yellow flowers. 
MONARDELLA. 
A genus of many beautiful flowers, well worth extended cultiva- 
tion, showy, often sweet scented, either perennial or annual. 
M. MACRANTHA Gray. An evergreen species with dark glossy 
foliage, a span high, producing showy heads of orange-red flowers. 
M. NANA Gray. Almost identical in habit and general aspect 
with the last, the flowers pure white, sometimes suffused with rose. 
Very beautiful but less showy than the last. 
M. LANCEOLATA Gray. A showy annual, producing masses of 
bright phlox purple flowers, six to eight inches or a foot high, braneh- 
ing, with a strong but pleasant pennyroyal perfume, similar in aspect 
with numerous related forms, like M. Pringlei and many others, all 
of which are well worthy of a place in any garden. 
NEMOPHILA. 
Very pretty annuals, mostly Californian, with tender herbage 
and lovely flowers of delicate blue, violet or white colors. 
N. AuRITA Lindl. Large violet flowers, one of the finest species 
introduced into cultivation. 
N. AURITA ALBA Dougl. A beautiful white form. 
N. INSIGNIS Dougl. Bright blue flowers an inch in diameter. 
N. MACULATA Benth. White, with a strong violet blotch at the 
top of each lobe of the corolla. ‘Love Grove.’ 
NICOTIANA. 
N. GLAUCA Graham. <A slender shrub, a native of South Amer- 
ica, very light green foliage and yellow flowers, considered very 
striking and ornamental among the sub-tropical foliage plants. 
Naturalized in Southern California. 
NOLINA. 
Perennial liliaceous plants, with a thick woody trunk, in aspect 
somewhat resembling the Yucca. The stout flowering stem bears a 
panicle of numerous small creamy white flowers. 
N. BiGgeELovilt Watson. The flowering stem six to ten feet high, 
bearing a dense panicle. The plant sometimes grows ten or more 
feet high. 
N. PALMERI Watson. A cluster of these plants will cover a con- 
siderable area, and with the coarse, grass-like foliage may well be 
mistaken for a patch of some coarse species of grass at a distance. 
Less ornamental than the preceding. : 
