522 SCROPHULARIACE.E mimulus 



cid-puberulent or pubescent annual : stem slender, 6-18 inches high : leaves 

 ovate to lanceolate, the blade 4-6 lines long, usually acute, abruptly con- 

 tracted into rather broad petioles, purple beneath and prominently 3-5- 

 yeined from the base : peduncles slender, 1-2 inches long, erect or ascend- 

 ing : calyx tubular-campanulate, about 4 lines long, truncate at the apex, 

 the short acute teeth equal : corolla yellow, 5-10 lines long, the pubescent 

 lines extending to the base of the throat: capsule oblanceolate, very short- 

 stipitate, obcompressed : seeds globular. In moist shady places, eastern 

 Oregon and Washington. 



M. Suksdorfli Gray Syn. Fl Supp. 450. A small annual 1-3 inches 

 high; whole herbage often reddish-hued; obscurely puberulent-viscidulous : 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear, 3-6 lines long, thickish, entire, narrowed 

 below but scarcely petioled: peduncles filiform, usually shorter than the 

 leaves : calyx tubular-campanulate, in fruit 3-4 lines long, truncate at the 

 apex, the short and broad teeth all equal: corolla yellow or reddish, about 

 3 lines long, little exserted from the calyx the limb less than 2 lines wide 

 all 5 lobes obcordate-emarginate ; throat beardless or . nearly so. Bare 

 places on mountains, eastern Washington to California and Utah. 



■ M. rubellus Gray Bot Mex. Bound. 116. Small annual 1-6 inches 

 high : very minutely and rather sparingly glandular-puberulent but not 

 viscid : leaves narrowly oblong, entire or with a few prominent teeth, nar- 

 rowed at base but sessile, 6-10 lines long, : peduncles very slender, exceed- 

 ing the leaves : calyx cylindraceous, the teeth oblong, obtuse, ciliolate, 

 equal : corolla rose-color to yellow, 3-4 lines long, the unequal lobes scarcely 

 spreading. In moist places, eastern Washington to California, Colorado 

 and New Mexico. 



M. floribundus Dougl. Lindl. Bot. Keg. t. 1225. Villous with spread- 

 ing white hairs and viscid: stem rather slender, 2-20 inches long, at first 

 erect, but soon decumbent and diffusely spreading, flowering from the 

 lowest axils : root annual : leaves ovate, or the lower subcordate, the blade 

 6-12 lines long rather coarsely toothed, all petioled : peduncles spreading, 

 about an inch long, exceeding the leaves : calyx campanulate, about 3 lines 

 long, the short triangular acute teeth nearly equal ; corolla about 6 lines 

 long, light yellow, f unnelform : capsule globose- ovoid, obtuse, sessile : 

 seeds almost globular, light-colored. On wet banks and shady places, 

 Washington to California and the Rocky Mountains. 



M. moschatus Dougl. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1118. Conspicuously villous 

 and viscid throughout: stems slender, weak and declined or ascending, 

 6-18 inches long: leaves broadly ovate 1-2 inches long, all petioled: spar- 

 ingly dentate : peduncles slender, an inch long, shorter than the leaves : 

 calyx tubular, 6 lines long, the subulate teeth subequal, half as long as the 

 tube : corolla yellow, the narrow throat about % longer than the calyx the 

 lobes nearly equal and rotately spreading ; the throat striate and spotted 

 with maroon, the pubescent lines not extended to the base: stamens not 

 exserted: capsule lanceolate, acute: seeds globular. In springy places, 

 Brit. Columbia to Oregon and the Rocky Mountains. 



M. primnloides Benth. Scroph. Ind. 29. Stems K-3 inches high, 

 glabrous or pilose-pubescent with white hairs : perennial by stolons : leaves 

 ovate to broadly lanceolate, entire or more or less dentate, narrowed below 

 but sessile, 6-12 lines long, glabrous both sides: peduncles filiform, 2-4 

 inches long, erect, usually only one to each stem: calyx tubular-campan- 

 ulate, 3-4 lines long, the broad acute teeth all equal : corolla yellow, about 

 8 lines long, funnelform ; lobes of the almost regular limb deeply emargin- 

 ate or obcordate. In mountain marshes, eastern Washington to California. 



M. pilosellus Greene Eryth. iv, 22. Very small and depressed : stems 

 2-6 lines high: perennial by stolons: leaves obovate to oblong, 2-6 lines 



