Plate 248 . 
DOUBLE-FLOWERING MIMULUS. 
Some time since, when visiting Mr. Bull’s establishment for 
new and rare plants at Chelsea, he pointed out to lissome plants 
of what he believed would be considered a great novelty, and 
his anticipations have been fully realized, for no plants of the 
present season have excited more interest than the very remark¬ 
able double or hose-in-hose Mimulus, three of which are re¬ 
presented in our Plate. 
As these very showy flowers have been well described in a 
contemporary, we cannot do better than transfer the description 
here :—“ This is a veritable duplex monkey-flower, a thorough 
hose-in-hose, as though the calyx, justifying the name, had taken 
to mimicking the corolla. In this remarkable curiosity the 
corolla exactly resembles some of the forms commonly known 
in gardens as Mimulus maculosus , but instead of the calyx 
being of its usual form and green colour, this organ is converted 
into a coloured body, almost exactly like the corolla in size and 
form, and, like it, brightly coloured and handsomely spotted. 
Looking at the Mimulus as a decorative plant, this new feature 
is a very great advantage. No one can doubt or dispute the 
beauty of some of the fine varieties of Mimulus, but the defect 
of a plant, from a garden point of view, is that the flowers 
droop too soon,—the beauty is not enduring. Now leaving out 
of question altogether the fact that here the ornamental part of 
the plant is at once doubled in quantity, there remains the very 
important fact that be the corolla ever so fleeting and evanes¬ 
cent, when it falls, the plant, to all intents and purposes, still 
remains in flower: the calyx is virtually in itself a flower, as far 
as ornament is concerned, and this part does not fall like the 
corolla, but lasts as long as its substance will endure. The 
