MIM'ULUS MOSCHATUS. 
MUSK MONKEY-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHCLARINEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Columbia. 
4 inches. 
June, Sept. 
Perennial 
in 1826. 
No. 283. 
When words are deduced from the ancients, it of- 
ten becomes difficult to determine their origin. Mi- 
mulus has been thought to have been derived from 
mimus, a masked actor, on -account of the ringent or 
grinning flowers, which, according to botanical de- 
scription, are possessed by some species of Mimulus. 
Or, it may be, that the seeds of the original Mimulus 
of the Greeks, bore some resemblance to a monkey ; 
thus the word mimo, a monkey, would form the ori- 
ginal. Moschatus, in allusion to its musk-like scent, 
which is more predominant in this plant than in any 
vegetable production with which we are acquainted. 
It is a delightful little plant, that spreads very 
freely; rooting as it increases; and forms complete 
tufts of foliage and flowers, during the summer, either 
in the open ground, or in pots. 
It affords abundance of increase by division ; and 
as it matures its seeds, from these also, it may be 
raised with ease. It is only requisite to sow them 
in the spring, in a pot of light compost. A hotbed 
would be of advantage in forwarding them; and 
when half an inch high, the plants should be potted, 
or planted out separately. 
Bot. Reg. 1118. 
