190 SCROPHULARIACEAE., Vou. LIT. 
Erect ; branches spreading ; leaves ovate; flowers 1’ long. 3. MM. Langsdorfit. 
Diffuse ; leaves nearly orbicular ; flowers about 6” long. 4. A. Geyeri. 
Plant villous and viscid, diffuse, musk-scented. 5. M. moschatus, 
1. Mimulus ringens L. Square-stemimcd 
Monkey-flower. Fig. 3775. 
Mimulus ringens L. Sp. Pl. 634. 1753. 
Glabrous, perennial by rootstocks ; stem erect, 4-sided 
or somewhat 4-winged, usually much branched, 1°-3° 
high, Leaves oblong, lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, 
pinnately veined, acuminate or acute at apex, serrate, 
auriculate-clasping at the base, or the lower merely 
sessile, 2’-4’ long, 4’-1’ wide; peduncles slender, 1’-2’ 
long in fruit, 2-4 times as long as the calyx; calyx- 
teeth lanceolate-subulate; corolla violet, rarely white, 
about 1’ long, the throat narrow, exceeding the calyx; 
base of lower lip puberulent within; fruiting calyx 
oblong, 6”-8” long; seeds oblong, minute, reticulated. 
In swamps and along streams, Nova Scotia to Vir- 
ginia, Tennessee, Manitoba, Nebraska and Texas. As- 
cends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. June-Sept. 
2. Mimulus alatus Soland. Sharp-winged 
Monkey-flower. Fig. 3776. 
Aiaielis alatus Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 361. 
1759. 
Similar to the preceding species, glabrous; stem 
sharply 4-angled, the angles more or less winged. 
Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or oblong, acute 
or acuminate at the apex, dentate-serrate, nar- 
rowed at the base, petioled, 2’-5’ long, 9’’-18” 
wide; petioles }’-1’ long, narrowly margined; 
peduncles stout, shorter than the calyx; corolla 
violet, 1’ long; calyx-teeth short, broad, abruptly 
mucronulate; seeds smooth. 
In swamps, Ontario to Connecticut, Illinois, Kan- 
sas, Georgia and Texas. June-Sept. 
3. Mimulus Langsd6érffii Donn. 
Langsdorff’s Yellow Monkey- 
flower. Fig. 3777. 
Mimulus Langsdorfii Donn; Sims, Bot. Mag. 
pl. 1501. 1812. 
Marpates guttatus DC, Cat. Hort. Monsp. 127. 
1818, 
Perennial by stolons, glabrous or puberu- 
lent; stem rather stout, simple or branched; 
branches spreading. Leaves ovate to obo- 
vate, dentate or denticulate, obtuse at the 
apex, rounded, narrowed or cordate at the 
base, 1’-3’ long, the lower short-petioled, 
the upper smaller, sessile or clasping; pe- 
duncles shorter than or equalling the flow- 
ers; calyx oblique; corolla yellow, 1’-2’ 
long, the lower lip bearded at the base, 
often blotched with red or purple; fruiting 
calyx about 4’ long; seeds longitudinally 
striate. 
In_wet meadows, Norfolk, Conn., and south- 
ern New York, introduced from California. 
Summer, 
