454 SCBOPHULAKIACEAE (FIGWORT FAMILY) 



panulate, in flower about 8 mm. long, often mottled with dark purple, at 

 length much inflated, the 4 lower teeth incurved and closing the orifice: 

 corolla yellow, 2-3 cm. long, funnelfonn; lobes of thei upper lip erect,' oblong, 

 the middle lobe of the lower lip broadly cordate, pendulous; the throat usually 

 spotted with dark red, the pubescent lines running to the base: capsule ob- 

 long; seeds oblong. (M. pvhervlus Greene.) — In wet places in the mountains; 

 New Mexico to Montana and far westward. - 



5. Mimulus Geyeri Tprr. Nicol. Rep. Hydrog. Upper Mississippi 157. 

 1843. Pe'rehhial by stolons, glabrous or'nearly so; stems slender, creeping, 

 rooting at the tiodes,'l,5-5dm. long: leaves bi-oadly ovate, (Jrbicular, or broader, 

 very obtuse, denticjulate or entire, membranous, truncate, subcordate, or 

 rarely narrowed at the base; palinately Veined, short-petioled or the upper 

 sessile, 6-25 mm. broad: peduncles slender, longer than the calyx in fruit: 

 calyx oblique, scarcely toothed, 6-8 inm. long at maturity: corolla 8-12 

 mm. long, the lower lip bearded at the base within, the throat broad: seeds 

 nearly smooth. M.Jamesii. — From Mexico to Montana. ,,, i 



6. Mimtilus moschatus Dougl. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. 13: pi. 1118. 1827. 

 Villous and slimy- viscid, strongly musk-scented; sterns creepmg and ascend- 

 ing; 1.5-3 dm. long: leaves ovate or oblong, short-petioled, denj;iculate, 

 rounded or subcordate at the base, 2-5 cm. long: peduncles slendier, longer 

 than the calyx; flowers 2-5, cm. long: calyx-teetn lanceolate, acuminate: 

 corolla 2-3 times as long as the calyx.— The Musk Pi^nt of gardens and green- 

 houses; also indigenous in. wet places from Colorado and Wyoming to the 

 Pacific States. ' , ; 



7. Mimulus Hallii Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1: 113. 1886. Puberulent 

 or glabrous, more or less branched, usually suberect, rather slender, the stems 

 somewhat angled: leaves and bracts oblong or ovate, obtuse, entire or spar- 

 iligly 'dentate: calyx subglobose-inflated, with rather broad abruptly acute 

 teeth; the upper one twice as large as the others: corolla light yellow, small, 

 6-i'O mm. long, the Slfender tube scarcely exserted. '(M. thermcdis' A. Nels.' 

 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 27: 269. 1900; M. nasutus Greene, as to our range.)— 

 Wet, springy places'; eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. . 



8. Mimulus floribundus Dou^. 1. c. pi. 1125. 'Villous annual with spread- 

 ing white hairs and viscid ; stem rather slender, 5-40 cm. long, at first erect, 

 but soon decumbent and diffusely spreading, flowering from the lowest axils: 

 leaves ovate, or the lower subcordate, the blade 12-25 mm.-' long; rather 

 coarsely toothed, all petioled: peduncles spreading, 1-3 cm. long, exceeding 

 the'leaves: caljrx campanulate, about 6'nini. long, the short, triangular, acute 

 teeth nearly equal: corolla about 12 mm. Itog, li^ht yellow, funnelfotm: cap- 

 sule globose-ovoid, obtuse, sessile: seeds almost globUla;r, light-colored. "(M. 

 membranabea A^ Nels. Bot. Gaz. 34: 30. 1902.)^From the mountaiiis of 

 Colorado and Wyoming to the Paciflc States. ' 



13. RHINAWTHDS L. Yellow Rattle 



Herbs, with erect stem, opposite leaves, and mostly yellow subsessile flowers 

 in, the axils, the upper ones crowded &,hd sebund in a leafy-bracted spike. 

 Calyx ventricose-compressed, 4-toothed, inflated in fruit. CoroUa-tiibe cy- 

 lihdraceous; the upper lip galeate, ovate, obtuse-compressed, entire at apex 

 but m1;h a minute tooth on each side; lower lip shorter, with 3 spreading 

 lobes. Capsule orbicular, compressed. The seeds when ripe rattle iii the in- 

 flated dry calyx. r . 



1. Rhinanthus Crista-galli L. Sp. PI. 603. 1753. Glabrous or nearly so, 

 2-4 dm. high: leaves narrowly oblong to lanceolate, coarsely serrate: bracts 

 incised and the acuminate teeth setaceous-tipped: corolla,' 10-12 mm.: long, 

 only the tip exserted, commonly with a purple spot on one or both of the 

 lips: stamens ascending under the galea; anthers pilose, the cells transverse: 

 seeds suborbicular, winged. — ^From the Rocky Mountains eastward to the 

 .\tlaatic. 



