
110 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 
sought-for specimens that it may be, gladden his mind; but on 
approaching it he finds the little buffoon. Fooled again, he 
laments, and the one in his buttonhole has dropped off from 
itsstem. For all of these are the pranks of the monkey-flower. 
CARDINAL MONKEY=FLOWER. (Plate Lae 
Mimulus cardinalzs. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR - RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Figwort. Bright, brick red. Scentless. West of Minnesota. Summer. 
Flowers: solitary ; axillary. Ca/yx: prism-shaped ; five-toothed. Corolla: 
funnel-formed; two-lipped. Stamens: tour. /%stil: one. Leaves: opposite; 
clasping : oblong; serrated. Stem: one to two feet high; rather clammy. 
If possible, the M. cardinalis is even more impertinent than 
the M. ringens. It is not quite so prankish, as its vermilion 
red could not easily be mistaken for that of any other flower ; 
but it has its lower lip thrust out as though it were making 
faces at one. In fact, its manners in this respect are so bad 
that we have quite a mind to pry into its up bringing. Then 
we remember that it is one of the figworts and they are a fam- 
ily that look as they please. 
TURTLE-HEAD. SNAKE-HEAD. (Pilate Z/7.) 
Chelone glabra. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Figwort. Pinkish white. Scentiless. General. Late sumer. 
Flowers: axillary; growing in spike-like racemes on a leafy flower-stalk. 
Calyx : of five overlapping, green sepals with similar bract-like leaves under- 
neath. Corolla: two-lipped; inflated; slightly open; shaped like a turtle’s 
head; the upper lip slightly notched at the apex; the lower lip three-cleft with 
the centre division appearing like a small tongue; delicately bearded in the 
throat. Stamens: four, perfect with hairy filaments and united by woolly an- 
thers that when touched let fly a misty pollen. A shorter, sterile stamen is 
also present. Leaves: opposite; long; lanceolate; serrated. Stem: smooth; 
square; branching. 
The only thing that detracts from the turtle-like appearance 
of these blossoms is their waxy, pinkish colouring. If they 
had better imitated their patron in this respect it would have 
been an excellent safeguard, as no one would have ventured his 
fingers within reach of their snappish little tongues. They 

