408 SCEOPHULAEIACEyE. 



15. M. moschatus Dougl. var. sessilifolius Gray. More or less 

 villous, the whole plant wet as if with slimy dew, strongly musk- 

 scented; stems weak, reclining, sometimes slender with long inter- 

 nodes, rooting at the nodes, 1 to 2 ft. long, from perennial creeping 

 rootstocks; leaves sessile or shortly petioled, ovate, remotely dentate, 

 about 2 in. long; flowers only in the upper axils; pedicels 1 to 2 in. 

 long or more; calyx-teeth lanceolate, 2 to 3 lines long, nearly or 

 quite J the length of the tube, moderately unequal; corolla yellow, 

 much exceeding the calyx, 1 in. long; capsule ovate, acute. — (M. 

 inodorous Greene.) 



Along streams and about springs in the mountains: seaward Coast 

 Ranges (Santa Cruz Mountains; Marin Co.; and north and south 

 along the coast); middle North Coast Ranges (Howell Mountain; 

 Horse Mountain, Lake Co.); not reported from the inner Coast 

 Ranges. June-Aug. 



10. MIMETANTHE Greene. 

 Erect branching annual with long villous white hairs. Flowers 

 small, yellow. Calyx short-campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, its tube 

 slightly 5-sulcate, not prismatic-angled or even carinate. Corolla 

 obscurely bilabiate, its lobes plane. Stamens 4, 2 fertile. Capsule 

 pointed, looulicidal, dehiscent the whole length of the upper side and 

 on the lower side along the apical attenuation; placentee tardily 

 separating, borne on the shortly 2-cleft valves. (Greek mimetes, an 

 imitator, and anthos, blossom, on account of the resemblance to 

 Mimulus.) 



1. M. pllosa (Benth.) Greene. At length much branched, leafy, 

 flowering from near the base, mostly about 8 to 10 in. high; herbage 

 glandular-viscid and with disagreeable solanaceous odor; leaves lanceo- 

 late or narrowly oblong-ovate, entire, sessile; flowers on slender pedi- 

 cels, the lower pedicels surpassing the leaves; upper tooth of calyx 

 much longer than the others, equaling the tube; corolla bright 

 yellow, its lower lobe usually with brown spots, slightly exceeding 

 the calyx, 3 to 4 lines long; capsule oblong-ovate, attenuate. — 

 (Mimulus exilis Durand.) 



Moist stream and river beds: North Coast Ranges (Putah Creek, 

 Lake Co., Russian River, etc.); South Coast Ranges; Sacramento and 

 San Joaquin Valleys and southward. July-Sept. 



11. LIMOSELLA L. Mttdwokt. 



Diminutive tufted annuals. Stems creeping in the mud (never 

 ascending), bearing at intervals clusters of leaves and scapes. 

 Leaves narrow, entire, fleshy. Scapes naked, 1-flowered. Calyx- 

 5-toothed. Corolla nearly regular, open-eampanulate, 5-cleft. Sta- 

 mens 4, all fertile. Style short. Capsule globose, 2-celled only at 

 base, many-seeded. (Latin limus, mud, and sella, seat, the species 

 growing in moist localities.) 



1. L. aquatica L. Tufts 1 to IJ in. high; leaves exceeding the 



