MONKEY FLOWERS 



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for tlu'in. Tlit'V ^lioiilfl ))(■ uivni a sumiy posit ion, and br protected from 

 excess of moisture. Z. lych nnha is pidpa^'atcil l)y cuttiiiu-s or divisions 

 of the root. Cuttings sliouM be taken at the end'of sunnm-r and stvuek 

 in a cold frame. The annual species are oTown from se.-d sown in the 

 border in June : in pots in Soptend)or, and kept in the oivenliouse through 

 th(5 winter ; or on a gentle hot-bed in ^[arch, to be aft<'r\vards planted out 

 in the open air. Z. sdoijlooidcs from its low stature and abundant ilowers 

 makes a good edging, and is also useful as a pot-plant. 

 Description of Zduziaiiskya sel<i(jin(>i<h>i. Fig. 1 !> a ilowcr detached 



MONKEY FLOWERS ^ 



Natural Order ScROPHULARiNE^. Genus Mimulus 



MoiULUS (Greek, mimo, an ape, from supposed resendjlanee of corolla). 

 A genus of about forty species of erect or prostrate aunu;d or perennial 

 hardy or half-hardy herbs, with opposite leaves, and solitary flowei-s 

 produced in the axils. The calyx is tubular, five-angled and five-toothed : 

 the corolla two-lipped— the upper one two-lobed and more or less erect, 

 whilst the lower is three-lobed and spreading. Stamens four, stigma 

 two-lobed, capsule two-valved. Most of the species are American, and a 

 few belong to Australia and New Zealand ; one naturalised in Britain. 



The Common Musk, Mimulus mosckatus, is accoimted 

 such a thoroughly old-fashioned flower that it must come 

 to many persons as something in the nature of a shock to be told that 

 the year of its introduction .to our gardens was no farther back than 

 seventy-one years from the time of writing, when it came from North 

 America. At the same time, and from the same region, came M. luteus, 

 the Monkey Flower, which would probably be considered as quite a 

 new-fashioned flower. This species took to fresh soil so readily that it 

 became naturalised by the sides of our rivers, and probably got its seeds 

 dispei-sed by using the water as a carrier, and so to-day it may be found 

 widely distributed in Britain south of Skye, and in Ireland. But there 



