MIM'ULUS ROSEO-CARDINA'LIS. 
SCOTCH HYBRID MIMULUS. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMI A . 
Natural Order. 
SCR0PI1ULARIACE.E. 
Hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers 
Duration, 
Raised 
Origin. 
18 inches. 
June to Sep. 
Perennial. 
in 1840. 
No. 813. 
The name of this genus is deduced from the 
Greek, mimo, a monkey, or masked actor. It is 
by no means certain on what account the name was 
given to a plant by the ancients ; Linneus, how- 
ever, may be supposed to have hereby alluded to the 
gaping corolla of the genus. The specific appel- 
lation, roseo-cardinalis, is a compound, indicating 
that this hybrid variety has arisen from the union 
of the two species — Mimulus roseus, and Mimulus 
cardinalis. It is true that this combination of terms 
produces long names, but the advantage arising 
out of the practice, by the indication of the origin 
of such plants, when this is known, is too obvious 
to admit of a question. This method of naming 
we first proposed, under No. 385, in describing an 
interesting hybrid Potentilla, raised in our own 
garden. The practice is, we are glad to observe, 
now adopted by botanists generally ; although 
amongst nurserymen and gardeners human nature 
seems to display itself in the exhibition of desire for 
immortality ; for here we usually see those plants 
which may be considered their own children, intro- 
duced to public notice under their own family 
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