
FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
This is a coarse plant, smooth, or 
eee Bee- rather sticky and hairy, with several stout, 
Scrophalaria Square stems, and forming a large clump, 
Califérnica from two to six feet high. The little 
Rd, green flowers have a quaint appearance, but 
Spring, summer 
Northwest, Cal. are usually only about a quarter of an 
inch long, with brownish-red or greenish 
corollas, which are neither pretty nor conspicuous, but the 
variety floribunda, of southern California, has flowers 
which are nearly half an inch long, with rich red corollas, 
handsome and brilliant in effect. These plants yield a 
great deal of honey and are common and widely distributed. 
There are several kinds of Diplacus, much resembling 
Mimulus, except that they are shrubs, with evergreen 
leaves. 
When in full bloom, this is a handsome 
Sticky Monkey- and very conspicuous shrub, for the 
flower, flowers are numerous and unusual in 
raaigaea ig “coloring, being usually a peculiar shade 
Diplécus longi- of salmon-color, which at a distance gives 
fldrus (Mimulus) the effect in the landscape of some sort 
Salmon-color of exotic rhododendron. It is from two to 
rs axy pale ix feet high, with very dark green, sticky, 
Spring, summer USually toothless leaves, with their mar- 
California gins rolled back, dark sticky buds and 
large flowers, which are sometimes three 
inches long, the corolla varying in color from almost white 
to scarlet, with a white stigma. They bloom more or less 
all the year round and there are several similar, named 
varieties. 
This is much like the last, and is often 
Bush Monkey- ery handsome. In the crevices of the 
flower : 5 
Diplécus puni. Sea-clifis at La Jolla it makes tangled 
ceus (Mimulus) thickets of woody stems and dark green 
Red foliage, ornamented with many scarlet or 
Spring, summer, +ich deep-red flowers, with a velvety 
autumn z : 
California surface like that of a pansy and with 
orange ribs in the throat. This is common 
throughout California. 
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