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DIDTNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
bidentata ; calycibus 
deorsum truncatis. 
with 2 setaceous teeth; 
calyx obliquely trun- 
cated. 
Sp.pl. 3. p. 211. Walt. p. 171. Mich. 2. p. 18. Pursh2. p. 425. 
Hoot perennial, creeping. Stem 6 — 12 inches high, terete, succulent 
and very pubescent. Radical leaves crowded, stem leaves alternate, all 
lanceolate in their outline, pinnatifid, with the segments notched and tooth- 
ed, somewhat reticulate uhderneath, when young very pubescent, when 
old glabrous. Petioles compressed and slightly fringed. Flowers 
in crowded leafy spikes. Bracteas resembling the leaves. Calyx slight- 
ly angled, 2-cleft at the summit, obliquely truncated backwards so as to 
have no under lip. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, yellowish, tinged 
with purple, the lower lip 3-lobed, the intermediate lobe the smallest. 
Stamens a little shorter than the corolla, the 2 longer filaments bearded 
near the summit. Style longer than the corolla. Stigma slightly capi- 
tate. Capsule compressed and opening at the summit. Seeds few in each 
cell, slightly angled. 
Grows in rich shaded soils, rare along the sea coasts % 
flowers March — April. 
MIMULUS. Gen. Pl. 1049, 
Calyx prismatieus, 
5-dentatus. Corolla 
ringens, labio superi- 
ore lateribus replicato. 
Stigma crassum. 
Capsula 2-locularis, 
polysperma, 
1. Ringens, 
M. erectus, glaber; 
foliis sessilibus,lanceo- 
latis, acuminatis, ser- 
ratis; pedunculis ax- 
il] aribus, oppositis, 
fore longioribus; den- 
Calyx prismatic,, 
5-toothed. Corolla 
ringent, the upper lip 
with the sides folded 
back. Stigma thick. 
Capsule 2-celled, ma- 
ny seeded. 
Erect, • glabrous ; 
leaves sessile, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, ser- 
rate ; peduncles axil- 
lary, opposite, longer 
than the flowers ; 
