FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
purplish-pink corolla, streaked with magenta, with yellow 
ridges on the lower lip and plaits inside the throat. They 
look exceedingly pretty on the pale sand of the Mojave 
Desert. 
There are several varieties of this 
common and attractive plant, some tall 
and robust, others very short. The stems 
Common Yellow 
Monkey-flower _ 
Mimulus 
Langsd6r fii are smooth, not sticky, thickish and pale, 
Yellow sometimes branching, about a foot tall, 
Spring, summer 
Southwest, Utah, 
etc. 
and the leaves are from one to three inches 
long, smooth, or slightly downy, especially 
on the under side of the upper leaves, and 
usually bright green, the veins prominent on the back, the 
upper leaves without leaf-stalks and more or less clasping, 
the lower ones with leaf-stalks varying in length. The 
flowers are from three-quarters of an inch to two inches 
long, clear bright yellow, the throat nearly closed and hairy, 
usually with some dark red dots between the hairy ridges 
on the lower lip. This grows in wet places in the mountains 
and in canyons, is widely distributed in the West, and has 
now strayed as far east as Connecticut. 
This plant is more or less hairy and 
Musk-plant 7 : 
Mamulas seems to be wet all over with slimy dew 
moschatus and smells of musk. When the stems are 
Yellow cut and put in water a slimy sort of muci- 
Spring, summer 
Wiest, <otk lage drips from them. It is about ten 
inches tall, with rather pretty yellow 
flowers, barely an inch long, with some hairs and reddish 
specks in the throat. This is widely distributed, in wet 
places, from Ontario westward. 
There are numerous kinds of Orthocarpus, many of 
them Californian, difficult to distinguish. Like Castilleja, 
their upper leaves often pass into colored bracts and the 
calyx is colored, but the corolla is not similar, for the upper 
lip is small and the ‘three-lobed lower lip is swollen and 
conspicuous; calyx short, four-cleft; stamens four, two of 
them short, enclosed in the upper lip; style long, with a 
round-top stigma; leaves without leaf-stalks, usually al- 
ternate, often cut into three to five narrow divisions; fruit 
an oblong capsule with many seeds. Perhaps it is called 
Owl’s-clover because, in some kinds, the flowers look like 
the faces of owls. 
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