380 SCROPHULAEIACEAE. 



2 to •"• I i IK'S long, the teeth ( ■_. line long, hardly ini«'<|ii:i I ; corolla light yellow, 



exceeding the calyx, mostly twice as Long; capsule globose-ovate, obtuse. 



Springy places and stream shores in the mountains: Sierra Nevada; Coast 

 Ranges (but sot reported from the Bay region). May-June, There are dwarf 

 forms - t.i :'» in. high. 



15. M. moschatus Dougl. var. sessilifolius Gray. More or less villous, 

 the whole plant wet as if with slimy «lew, strongly musk-scented; stems weak. 



reclining, sometimes slender with long internodes, rooting at the nodes, 1 to 2 



ft. long, from perennial creeping rootstocks; leaves sessile or shortly petioled, 



ovate, remotely dentate, about 2 in. Long; flowers only in the upper axils; 



pedicels 1 to 2 in. long or more; calyx-teeth lanceolate, 2 to 3 lines long, nearly 

 or quite % the length of the tube, moderately unequal; corolla yellow, much 

 exceeding the calyx, 1 in. long; capsule ovate, acute. — (M. inodorus Greene.) 



Along streams and about springs in the mountains and north and south along 

 the coast: Santa Cruz Mts. ; Marin Co.; Howell Mt.; Lake < 'o. ; not reported 

 from the inner Coast Ranges. June-Aug. 



10. MIMETANTHE Greene. 



Erect branching annual with long villous white hairs. Flowers small, yellow. 

 Calyx short-campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, its tube slightly 5-sulcate, not pris- 

 matic angled or even carinate. Corolla obscurely bilabiate, its lobes plane. 

 Stamens 4, 2 fertile, or all 4 fertile. Capsule pointed, loculicidal, dehiscent 

 the whole length of the upper side and on the lower side along the apical at- 

 tenuation; placentae tardily separating, borne on the shortly 2-cleft valves. 

 (Greek mimetes, an imitator, and anthos, blossom, on account of the resemb- 

 lance to Mimulus. The resemblance is so close as to weaken the genus greatly.) 



1. M. pilosa (Benth.) Greene. At length much branched, leafy, flowering 

 from near the base, mostly about 8 to 10 in. high; herbage glandular-viscid 

 and with disagreeable solanaceous odor; leaves lanceolate or narrowly oblong- 

 ox ate, entire, sessile; flowers on slender pedicels, the lower pedicels surpassing 

 the leaves; upper tooth of calyx often longer than the others, equaling the 

 tube; corolla bright yellow, its lower lobe usually with brown spots, slightly 

 exceeding the calyx, 3 to 4 lines long; capsule oblong-ovate, attenuate. — 

 (Mimulus exilis Durand. M. pilosus Wats.) 



Moist stream and river beds: Coast Ranges; Sacramento and San Joaquin 

 valleys; Sierra Nevada foothills ami southward. July-Sept. Rather common. 



11. LIMOSELLA L. Mudwort. 

 Diminutive tufted annuals. Stems creeping in the mud (never ascending), 

 bearing at intervals clusters of leaves ami scapes. Leaves narrow, entire. 

 fleshy. Scapes naked, 1-flowered. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla nearly regular, 

 open-campanulate, 5-cleft. Stamens 4, all fertile. Style short. Capsule 

 globose, 2 celled only at base, many-seeded. (Latin limus, mud. and sella, seat, 

 the species growing in moist localities.) 



1. L. aquatica L. Tufts 1 to 1% in. high; leaves exceeding the scapes, 



narrowly Oblong, i? to (! lines long, on long petioles (."> to 12 lines); corolla 

 very small (less than 1 line Long), white or purplish. 



Muddy Bhores of ponds and lakes: San Mateo Co.; San FrancisCOj Pt. 



Beyes. Ji -July. 



12. MONNIERA P. Br. 



Perennial herbs with opposite leaves and solitary axillary flowers. Calyx of 



."> almost distinct imbricated sepals, the upper broadest. Upper lip of the 



