Mmulus. SCR0PHULARIACEJ3. 5G9 



with calyx-tenth as long in proportion as those of M. bicolnr. In the dehiscence of the mem- 

 branaceous capsule the placenta sometimes splits into two portions adnate to the valves, hut as 

 commonly is barely 2-cfeft at the summit. The whole plant is often purplish. 



+- -f- Leafy-stemmed, viscid/ y villous or pilose : leaves all petioled, thin and broad. 

 toothed, more or less pinnately veined: corolla yellow: calyx slightly if at all 

 oblique. 



20. M. floribundus, Dougl. Annual, erect or with numerous ascending 

 branches, a span or two high, flowering from the base : leaves ovate (half to a full 

 inch long), the lower slightly cordate : upper peduncles longer than the leaves : 

 calyx short-campanulate, becoming ovate in fruit (barely a quarter of an inch 

 long) ; the teeth short, equal, broadly triangular : corolla barely half an inch long : 

 capsule globose-ovate, obtuse. — Lindl. P>ot. Keg. t. 1125. 



Moist ground, throughout the Sierra Nevada region {Bvjclow, Lcmmon, linthrock) ; thence to 

 Oregon and the Rocky Mountains. 



2 1 . M. moschatus, Dougl. Animal, or perennial by the creeping stems, diffuse 

 and di-i-uinlii-iit, beset with very soft long hairs, strongly musk-scented : leaves ovate 

 or oblong, short-petioled (an inch or two long), mostly exceeding the peduncles : 

 calyx short-prismatic, ohlong-campanulate in fruit (a third of an inch long) ; tin- 

 teeth somewhat unequal, rather long, acuminate : corolla two thirds to a full inch 

 long : capsule ovate, acute. — Lindl. Bot. Keg. t. 1118. 



Wet and muddy ground; common in the mountains, especially northward, extending to 

 liritish Columbia, and eastward to Utah. The Californian specimens of this, the Musk-plani of 

 the gardens, incline to have a longer corolla, fully thrice the length of the calyx, and twice the 

 size of that of the plant in common cultivation. 



-f- -t- +- Scapose. 



22. M. primuloides, Benth. Perennial by stolons, dwarf : leaves sessile, from 

 broadly obovate to linear-oblong, entire or toothed, 3 — 5-nerved, obtuse (a quarter 

 to a full inch long), all crowded in a radical tuft at the base of the filiform (1 to 3 

 inches loug) scape, or, in large and vigorous plants, in several approximate pairs 

 on a stein which is as long as the one or two peduncles (1 to -1 inches): calyx 

 narrow (in fruit oblong and at most 3 .lines long), with short and equal teeth, less 

 than half the length of the funnelform golden yellow corolla. — Regel, Gartenfl. 

 1872, i. 739. 



Wet meadows in the Sierra Nevada, from Mount Whitney northward to Oregon, and in 

 Nevada; only at considerable elevations. Leaves at first villous with long and soft jointed 

 hairs : peduncles and calyx glabrous. Corolla varying from :; to 8 line.-* in length. 



§ 5. Corolla, Ac, of Minn/Ins proper : calyx short and 5 cleft, not prismatic nor with 

 earinate angles or lobes: capsule and divided placenta as of ttu section 

 Eunawus: low annual. — Mimtjloides, Benth. under Herpestis. 



23. M. pilosus, Watson. Annual, a spun or more high, much branched from 

 the base, leafy, villous throughout with long and sofl white and somewhat viscid 

 hairs, dowering from almost all the axils: leaves lanceolate or almost oblong, entire, 

 sessile, the later ones about the length of the peduncles: calyx oblique, the upper 

 tooth longest and about the length of the tube, all oblong or ovate : corolla yellow. 

 ■"' or I Hues long, little exceeding the calyx ; the lips short and with equal lobes, a 

 pair of brown-purple spots on the lower: capsule oblong-ovate, acute. Bot. King 

 Exp. 225. Herpestis {Mimuloides) pilosa, Benth. in Coinp. Bot. Mag. ii. .">7. a 

 DC. I. e. 394. Mimulus exilis, Durand, in Pacif. R, Rep. \. 12, t. 12. 



Gravelly banks ol streams; very common, extending into tlii bordci ol Nevada. Lobes of 

 the calyx plane and nearlj nerviJess; the tube without ribs, n slight inflexion corresponding 



with the sinuses. The anthei cells are oblong i "linear." The stigma is bill Hate, as in 



the genus i " i ntire. " 



