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Pennsylvania. Certainly an escape from cultivation on Long 
Island, but in the mountain habitats it appearsas if native. A 
native of the Rocky Mountains, occurring eastward in northern 
Michigan, Newfoundland and northern New England. 
2. MimuLus 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 aatus 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. Pl. 634. 1753. ‘‘Habitat in Vir- 
ginia, Canada . . . Hort. ups.176.t.2.’’ Inthe Hortus 
Upsalensis 176, pl. 1, 1748, Linné 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 I-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. I. dubia. 
