FIGWOET FAMILY. 403 



strongly bilabiate limb or with merely slight inequality of lobes, a 

 pair of bearded or nalsed ridges running down the lower side of the 

 throat. _ Stamens 4. Stigma mostly of 2 flat lobes closing together 

 when irritated. Capsule dehiscent by both sutures, dehiscent on 

 one side only, or cartilaginous and indehiscent. Seeds many. 

 (Diminutive of the Latin mimus, a comic actor, on account of the 

 gaping or grinning corolla.) 



A. Flowers red, crimson, or scarlet. 

 Acaulescent or short-caulescent dwarf annuals, glabrous or nearly so; 

 corolla red, very large for the size of the plant, with long and often 

 filiform tube; capsule cartilaginous, indehiscent. 

 Corolla-limb broad; upper lip exceeding the lower; tube filiform, 4 to 6 



times the length of the funneHorm throat 1. M. angustatus. 



Lower lip of the corolla almost none; upper lip conspicuous, erect; throat 



narrowly campanulate or urn-shaped 2. M. subuniflorus. 



Corolla-limb not very Irregular; throat open-funnelform, about U the 

 length of the tube ; branches (when manifestly caulescent) decumbent. 



3. ^^. tricolor. 

 Caulescent (as all the following) and erect. 

 Pedicels 1 or 2 lines long or less; corolla red; capsule dehiscent down the 

 upper suture and a little past the apex (rarely to the base) on the lower 

 suture; herbage more or less glandular- or viscid-pubescent. 

 Corolla-lips strongly unequal. 

 Calyx narrowly cylindrical, scarcely plicate, orifice very oblique; 



lower lip of corolla J.<as long as upper 4. M. Kelloggii. 



Similar but smaller; corolla limb IJ^ to 2 lines in diameter. . . . 



5. J/. Congdoni. 

 Corolla-lips little unequal. 

 Corolla-tube exserted from calyx. 

 Calyx strongly plicate, the orifice very obliqae and the broad teeth 



unequal 6. J/. Bolanderi. 



Calyx scarcely plicate, the teeth subequal, acute and slender . 



7. J/. Laynex. 

 Corolla-tube not exserted from calyx; calyx similar to no. 6 , . . . 



8. J/. Kattani. 

 Pedicels 1 to 25^ in. long; capsule dehiscent by both sutures (as in all the 



following). 

 Robust perennial; corolla bright scarlet, strongly bilabiate, 1^4 to 2 in. 



long ■ 9. .V. eardf'nalis. 



Slender annual; corolla crimson, scarcely bilabiate. . 10. ^f. androsaceus. 

 B. Flowers yellow or white. 

 Glabrous or somewhat pubescent, at least not viscid-slimy; stems erect; 

 flowers yellow or white. 

 Corolla small, subregular and 



Straw-yellow; dwarf annual . 11. .1/. rubellv^. 



Nearly white or slightly yellowish; annual 12. M. latidens. 



Corolla large, golden yellow, purple-dotted or splotched, strongly bila- 

 biate; annual or perennial: vars. of IS. M. Langsdorffii. 



Slimy viscid-pubescent herbs, with mostly weak and decumbent stems and 

 light yellow subregular corollas. 

 Annual; corolla ^ in. or less long; calyx-teeth short, X line long; leaves 



petioled 14. J/, fioribundits. 



Perennial; corolla about 1 In. long; calyx-teeth I4 length of the tube; 

 leaves mostly sessile . .15. AT. mosckatus. 



1. M. angustatus Gray. Acaulescent, glabrous; leaves linear, 

 J to 1 in. long; calyx 2 to 3 lines long; the teeth little unequal; the 

 corolla crimson, purple and yellow-dotted, with filiform tube 1 to IJ 

 in. long, 4 to 6 times the length of the short funnelform throat; limb 

 broad, upper lip exceeding the lower; capsule short^ovate, not flat- 

 tened, almost as long as thick; seeds favose-pitted. 



