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MIMULUS CARDINALIS. 
(scarlet-flowered MIMULUS.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
SCROPHULARIN^, 
Generic Character See Vol. I. page 29. 
Specific Character. — A hardy herbaceous plant, growing from four to six feet high. Stem erecf^ 
breaking into many loose, partially upright, axillary branches, the strongest from the four or five 
lowermost buds, covered with long delicate glutinous hairs. Leaves opposite, of a yellowish green 
colour, and of an oblong-ovate figure, irregularly toothed from a little more than the middle of each 
to the point at the base, connate, somewhat attenuated and quite simple, also covered on both sides 
with hairs less glutinous than those on the stem, and shorter. Flowers produced on long, nearly 
erect, solitary, axillary footstalks, hairy like the stem. Calyx alike hairy, strongly ribbed, terminated 
by five acute regular teeth, covered on the outside with dark velvety markings towards the base. 
Corolla consisting of four oblong reflexed lobes, each of which is notched at the end and feathered 
with marginal hairs, the two side ones bent back so as to press not unfrequently on the sides of the 
calyx ; the lowermost lobes the broadest, and likewise reflexed, internally, of a bright scarlet, and 
externally of a reddish yellow colour. Throat streaked and mottled with dark pink upon a yellow 
ground, opposite the front lobe are two rows of glandular hairs which extend from the orifice nearly 
to the base of the tube. Stamens four, two of which are the longest, erect, springing from near the 
base of the corolla. Filaments pale yellow. Anthers yellow and hairy. Style erect, concave,, 
terminated by a kind of two-valved stigma; each valve, when the flower is suflBciently matured, open£> 
apparently for the reception of the pollen. The whole plant emits a slight smell of musk. 
Description of cut 1. Corolla laid open ; 2, The Calyx laid open to show the pistil and seed-vessel ; 
3. Section of the seed-vessel ; 4. Anthers magnified. 
Seeds of this fine plant were forwarded from California to the London Horti- 
cultural Society twelve or eighteen months ago, by our friend Mr. Douglas, to 
whose unwearied exertions in the cause of botanical science we are indebted for 
many choice and beautiful plants now so conspicuous in our collections. 
In the autumn of 1835, we obtained a plant and a little seed from the above society ; 
and having succeeded in raising a few seedling plants, it became our chief object to 
