THE MONKEY FLOWER 



MIMULUS LUTENS 



THERE is something distinctly un-EngKsh in 

 this showy, quaint plant as it grows in the 

 height of summer among the famiUar httle forget- 

 me-nots down by the water's edge, even though it 



a, sepals, b, petals, c, d, stamens. A, stigma (open), style, ovary. 

 d', stigma (closed), style, ovary, 



seems very much at home there. It is as though 



one caught sight of a foreign face among a crowd of 



one's countrymen. And the impression is correct, 



for it is a native of North America which first came 



to this country about 1826, and which has been 



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