MIMULUS CARDINA‘LIS. 
CARDINAL MONKEY FLOWER. 
as = A DICOTYLEDONES. 
Some es 
NATURAL ORDER, SCROPRULARIACEA. 
page | DIDYNAMIA, 
WAS | ANGIOSPERMIA, 
my A iii sae ot OF LINNEUS. 
No. 2. 
GENUS. Mrmvcoes. Lannevs.. Catyx pilangttcte” CoroLta gre 
aoe limbo bi-tri-lobato, Io baequalib bus. Sricma bilamellatum. Dis- 
sepimenta lateribus placentifera. - SPRENGEL. 
"SPECIES. Mimvnvs CARDINA LIs. Dovetas. Cavxe erecto,laxé ramoso, 
Fours obovatis dentatis, basi cobestis Frorigus axillarib bus, ped- 
COROLLIFLORE, 
OF > 
DECANDOLLE. 
is brevioribus, calyce costato quinque dentato. Corouta. eGecinea, bila- 
ata, labii superioris laciniis reflexis. | 
_ CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, fe fpaapiienl Cor- 
OLLA somewhat campanulate, two or three bas ,lo y equal. 
Sricma of two Bistes. ar lamelle. Piepinenaylerstivoe at the 
margins, es 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Fericns: Min CARD] 
two and a half to three feet high, erect, | 
with long delicate hairs. Leaves of a pale eotewich green, hairy ovate 
regularly toothed, soft and hairy. Coroua internally of a bright 
scarlet, but of a pale reddish yellow on the outside ; its border is divi- 
ded into four rather convex lobes, all of which are oblong and notched 
at the end, and the lowermost is the widest. Along the base of each 
segment passes a short ~ reddish a line which loses itself in the 
tube. 
ionably, rexcited the 
greatest interest. amongst floes Mise 4 Its flowers possess much 
beauty, and their colour is‘by no aan a common one in the garden. 
They exhibit the same irritability in the stigma, which the other species 
of Mimulus are known to possess. The two plates of the stigma, at an 
early period in the stage of flowering, are separate and apart, but so soon 
as the pollen falls upon the inner surface they collapse, and it has heen | 
thought never again open. This latter circumstance is, however, depen- 
dent on contingencies, for if its collapse take place at an early period 
_ REFERENCE TO THE Dissgcrions.’ 
3 4.48. 2, Cor. 
olla nope to shew the stamens winched thereto. 3, oe anther ovement 4, an anther after the 
discharge of its pollen. 5, 
