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XL Note upon Mimulus cardinalis ; a new, hardy, herbaceous 

 plant. By John Lindley, Ph.D. F.R.S. &c. &c. Assistant 

 Secretary. 



Read Nov. 4th, 1835. 



From the Californian seeds most lately received by the Society 

 from Mr. Douglas, has been raised an apparently hardy herbace- 

 ous plant, the beauty of which is so remarkable as to have induced 

 the Council to direct a figure of it to be prepared for publication 

 in the Transactions. 



It is a species of Mimulus, to which the name of cardinalis was 

 added by its lamented discoverer, in consequence of the brilliant 

 scarlet of its blossoms. Its stems are from one and a half to two 

 feet high, erect, loosely branched, and covered with long delicate 

 hairs. The leaves, which are of a pale yellowish green, are also 

 hairy, of an obovate figure, with regular toothings, and connate at 

 their base, which is their narrowest part. The flowers grow singly 

 in the axils of the leaves, which are shorter than the hairy pedun- 

 cles. The calyx is strongly ribbed, obliquely five-toothed, soft and 

 hairy. The corolla is internally of the brightest scarlet, but of a 

 pale reddish yellow on the outside ; its border is divided into four 

 rather convex lobes, all of which are oblong and notched at the 

 end, and the lowermost is the widest. Along the base of each seg- 

 ment passes a short, deep, reddish brown line, which loses itself in 

 the tube. 



Cultivated in the open ground, this plant flowered abundantly 

 from July to the end of September. It appeared to prefer a moist 

 rich soil, and did not suffer at all from the ardent sun to which it 



