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It is quite hardy, and grows readily in a warm dark situation and peat earth. The seeds should be sown very 
thinly; but from their small size it is very difficult to do this without mixing them with sand, or wood-ashes 
before they are sown. When the young plants come up, they should he thinned out. The flowers are produced 
in great abundance; but they are generally of very short duration, and usually close about mid-day. The 
calyx, however, becomes inflated, and ribbed with red, when the seeds are swelling ; so that it is rather 
ornamental after the flowers have dropped. We do not know where seeds are to be procured. 
OTHER SPECIES OF MIMULUS. 
M. PARYIFLORUS, Lindl., Bot. Reg. t. 874. 
A procumbent plant, rooting at the joints, and somewhat resembling M. moschatus , the common musk-plant, 
but with smaller flowers, and larger leaves. A native of Chili, introduced in 1824, but now lost to our gardens. 
Douglas discovered several other species of Mimulus in California, which appeared to him annual, but none of 
them have as yet been introduced. All the kinds require a moist shady situation, and peat earth. 
GENUS X. 
ALONSOA, Ruiz et Pavon. THE ALONSOA, OR MASK-FLOWER. 
Lin. Syst. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character. — Corolla subrotate, resupinate from the twisting of the pedicels. 
1.—ALONSOA LINEARIS, Ruiz et Pavon. THE LINEAR-LEAVED ALONSOA, OR MASK-FLOWER. 
Synonymes. —Celsia linearis, Jacq. ; Hemimeris coccinea, Willd. ; 
H. linariacfolia, II. It. et Kuntli ; Hemitomus fruticosus, L’Herit . 
Derivation. — The genus is named in honour of Don Zanoni 
Alonso, a Spanish consul in South America. 
Engravings _Bot. Mag. t. 210 ; Swt. Brit. Plow. Card. 2nd Ser., 
t. 240 ; ? Bot. Cab. t. 1456 ; and our fig. 7, in Plate 44. 
Specific Character. — Glabrous ; leaves opposite, or three in a 
whorl, linear, entire, or remotely denticulated.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c.— Nothing can exceed the brilliant colours of the flowers of this little plant, which, though 
generally considered a greenhouse shrub, is found to succeed quite well when grown as an annual in the 
open air. It is a native of Peru, whence it was introduced in 1790, and was at first called Celsia linearis , by 
which name it is still generally known in the nurseries and seed-shops. It was first treated as a hothouse shrub ; 
it was then removed to the greenhouse, and afterwards, being found to ripen abundance of seeds, it was grown as 
a tender annual; but it is now found to succeed even if sown in the open ground. To secure a fine show of 
flowers, it is, however, generally thought best to raise the seeds on a slight hotbed, and to plant them out in May, 
and thus treated, the plants will produce a succession of brilliant flowers throughout the whole summer. 
A. intermedia , Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1456, is a hybrid between this and the following species, A. incisifolia. 
2.—ALONSOA INCISIFOLIA, Ruiz et Pavon. THE CUT-LEAVED ALONSOA, OR MASK-FLOWER. 
Synonymf.s. —Celsia urticifolia, Curt. ; Hemimeris urticifolia, Specific Character. —Glabrous ; leaves opposite, ovate, acute, 
Willd. ; Alonsoa grandiflora, Hort. deeply toothed, or serrated.—(G. Don.) 
Engraving. —Bot. Mag. t. 417. 
Description, &c. —Larger and stronger-growing than A. linearis , but with rather darker and less splendid 
flowers. It is a native of Chili, introduced in 1795, and requires the same treatment as the preceding species, 
but is hardier. Both kinds require a loamy soil and an open situation. Seeds may he purchased in the seed- 
shops under the name of Alonsoa grandiflora. 
