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Pennsylvania. Certainly an escape from cultivation on Long 

 Island, but in the mountain habitats it appears as if native. A 

 native of the Rocky Mountains, occurring eastward in northern 

 Michigan, Newfoundland and northern New England. 



2. MlMULUS GUTTATUS DC. 



Meadows and along streams, rarely escaped from cultivation; 

 seen from Litchfield County, Connecticut, and Delaware County, 

 New York. Native of western North America. 



3. Mimulus alatus Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 361. 1789. "Nat. 



of North America. Introd. 1783, by Mr. William Mal- 

 colm." 

 Flowering from late July to early September, and soon ripen- 

 ing fruit. 



Shaded swamps and along streams, in potassic soil, frequent, 

 becoming rare northward, through the area above the Fall-line; 

 occasional in the Middle District of the Coastal Plain of New 

 Jersey. Ranges from Connecticut to Ontario and Kansas, 

 southward to Florida and Louisiana. 



4. Mimulus ringens L. Sp. PI. 634. 1753. "Habitat in Vir- 



ginia, Canada . . . Hort. ups. 176. t. 2." In the Hortus 

 L T psalensis 176, pi. 1, 1748, Linne described and figured 

 our plant. 

 Flowering from early July to mid-September, and soon ripen- 

 ing fruit. 



Open swales and along streams, more rarely in shaded swamps, 

 in potassic and calcareous soils, common throughout the area 

 above the Fall-line, of more rare occurrence through the Middle 

 District and Coast Strip of the Coastal Plain. Ranges from 

 Nova Scotia to Alabama, Minnesota and Kansas. 



8. Ilysanthes Raf. Ann. Nat. 13. 1820 

 Type species, I. riparia Raf., of the Ohio valley. 



Leaves 1-3 cm. long, obviously attenuate at base. Pedi- 

 cels relatively stout, at least in fruit, shorter than the 

 bracts. Sepals usually finely pubescent, usually about 

 equaling the capsule. 

 Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, usually only the 

 lowermost obtuse. Fruiting pedicels 5-10 mm. 

 long. Plant diffuse. 1. /. dabia. 



