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3. S. Scorodonia, Linn. (fig. 744). Balm-leaved S.—Very nearly 
allied to S. aquatica, in all essential characters, and distinguished 
chiefly by its downy, wrinkled leaves, and by the panicle more leafy at 
its base. It isalso usually a rather smaller plant, and the angles of the 
stem are never expanded into wings, and sometimes scarcely perceptible. 
A west Huropean species extending southwards to Madeira, and 
northwards to Jersey, the extreme south-west of England, and Kerry 
in Ireland. £. summer. 
4, S. vernalis, Linn. (fig. 745). Yellow S.—A hairy perennial, very 
different in aspect from the three preceding species, and not near so 
coarse. Stems seldom 2 feet high; the leaves nearly orbicular, cordate 
at the base, coarsely toothed, and of a light green colour. Peduncles 
almost all axillary, bearing a small cyme of yellow flowers; the 4 
upper lobes of the corolla nearly of equal size, without any scale or 
barren stamen inside ; the lowest lobe rather larger. Stamens longer 
than the tube of the corolla. 
On roadsides, and waste or stony places, in the hilly districts of 
Kurope, extending from France to the Caucasus. Occasionally found 
in England, but introduced. Fl. spring. 
V. MIMULUS. MIMULUS. 
Herbs, with opposite leaves, and yellow, purple, or pink flowers, 
erowing singly on axillary peduncles. Calyx tubular, with 5 prominent 
angles, and 5 short teeth. Corolla with a broad tube, and 5 flat lobes 
arranged in 2 lips; the upper one 2-lobed and sometimes erect ; the 
lower one spreading and 3-lobed, the central lobe often notched. 
Stamens 4. Capsule opening in 2 valves in the middle of the cells. 
An American genus, which, besides the species now naturalised in 
Europe, comprises the Musk Mimulws and some others occasionally 
cultivated in our gardens. 
1, M. luteus, Willd. (fig. 746). Yellow Mimulus.—A perennial, with 
a shortly creeping rootstock, and erect or ascending stems, either 
glabrous or slightly downy, seldom above a foot high. Leaves ovate, 
coarsely toothed, glabrous. Peduncles 2 inches long or more, bearing 
a showy yellow flower, above an inch long, usually marked inside with 
several small purple spots at the mouth of the tube, and sometimes 
with a large purple-red or pink spot upon each lobe. 
On the banks of streams, and in moist, shady places, in north-western 
America and Chili; long cultivated in our flower-gardens, and now 
naturalised in boggy places in many parts of Britain. Fl. all summer. 
VI. LIMOSELLA. LIMOSEL. 
Small, tufted or floating annuals; the leaves and minute flowers 
mostly radical. Calyx 5-toothed or lobed. Corolla regular, campanu- 
late, 5-lobed. Stamens 4. Anthers 1-celled. Capsule globular, with 
a very thin pericarp, scarcely dehiscent. 
Besides our European species the genus comprises but very few from 
southern Africa and Asia. 
1, L. aquatica, Linn. (fig. 747). Common Limosel.—A glabrous 
