360 SCROPHULARfNVE* 



Appearing early in spring, and resembling a Calceolaria, this is 

 tlie most ornamental British species. — Fl, April — June. Perennial. 



*5. MfMULUS (Monkey-flower). — Herbs with square stems, 

 opposite leaves, and conspicuous, solitary, axillary flowers ; calyx 

 S-cleft, 5-angled ; corolla 2-lipped, gaping, the upper lip 2-lobed 

 and reflexed ; seeds many, (Name from, the Greek iitiino, an ape, 

 from the form of the flower.) 



I.* M. Langsdorfli (Yellow ^Monkey-flower). — A pretty North 

 American plant, with hollow creeping stems, ovate, veined leaves, 

 and large, yellow, funnehshaped flowers, which has escaped from 

 cultivation and become naturalised by the sides of many streams. 

 Some of its cultivated varieties have the flowers blotched with 

 brown or red. — Fl. June — September. Perennial. 



6. LiMOSKLT.A (Mudwort). — Small, tufted, creeping, glabrous, 

 aquatic plants, with radical, linear lecm'S and niinule, solitary, 

 axillary flowers ; corolla short, bell-shaped, 5-cleft, nearly pol)'sym- 

 metric ; stamens 4, with i-chambered ai'jtkers. (Name from the 

 Latin limus, mud, from the character o£ the places in which the 

 plant grows.) 



I. L. aqiidlica (Common Mudwort). — The only British species, 

 a small plant, throwing up from the roots a number of smooth, 

 spathulate leaves on long stalks, and minute, pale pink or white 

 flowers on shorter stalks. — \\^atery places.; not common. — Fl. July 

 — .September. Annual. 



7. Sii>,THuRPi.\ (Cornish Money-wort). — Slender, creeping, hair>- 

 plants, with rounded, lobed, stalked leaves, and small, solitar)-, 

 axillary flowers ; calyx in 5 deep, spreading segments ; corolla short, 

 rotate, 5-cleft, nearl)' polysymmetric ; anthers 2-chambered : capsule 



