FIGWORT FAMILY 
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1. D. glutinosus Nutt. Bush Monkey-flower. Leaves oblong-lan¬ 
ceolate ; corolla salmon-color, 3.6 cm. long or more.—Canon sides. 
5. MIMULUS L. Monkey-flower 
Herbs with showy yellow or red flowers, solitary and axillary, or in 
terminal racemes. Corolla tubular to funnelform, 2-lipped or the lobes 
only silghtly irregular, a pair of bearded or naked ridges running down 
the lower side of the throat. Stamens 4. Stigmas as in Diplacus. Pod 
splitting open on one or both sides, or remaining closed. (Diminutive 
of the Latin mimus, a comic actor, on account of the gaping or grinning 
corolla.) 
Flowers red or scarlet. 
Dwarf annuals, as if stemless or nearly so, the leaves basal; corolla large 
for the size of plant. 
Plant 2.4 to 4.8 cm. high; stems apparently none. 
Upper lip of corolla exceeding the lower; throat funnelform. 
1. M. angustatus. 
Lower lip of corolla almost none ; throat campanulate or urn-shaped.. 
2. M. subuniflorus. 
Stem often with branches 7.2 to 9.6 cm. long.3. M. tricolor. 
Robust perennials with leafy stems. 
Pedicels very short.4. M. bolanderi. 
Pedicels 2.4 to 6.6 cm. long.5. M. cardinalis. 
Flowers yellow or white. 
Herbage glabrous or merely pubescent.6. M. guttatus. 
Herbage slimy or viscid-pubescent. 
Pubescence viscid ; leaves lanceolate or linear.7. M. brevipes. 
Pubescence with soft long hairs. 
Stems weak and reclining ; leaves short-petioled.8. M. moschatus. 
Stems erect; leaves sessile; lower lip of corolla with brown-purple 
spots.9. M. exilis. 
1. M. augustatus Gray. Leaves linear, 2.4 cm. long or less; corolla 
crimson, dotted with purple and yellow, its limb broad (the upper lip 
exceeding the lower), its tube very slender or thread-like, 2.4 to 3.6 cm. 
long.—Borders of surface streams. 
2. M. subuniflorus Greene. Leaves rhombic-ovate to oblong; corolla 
crimson, 3.6 cm. long, the tube slender, the throat narrowly bell-shaped; 
lower lip of corolla almost none, the upper lip conspicuous, erect.—Wet 
hillsides. 
3. M. tricolor Hartw. Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong; 
corolla red, 3.6 to 4.8 cm. long; lips little unequal; throat broadly fun¬ 
nelform, with crimson and yellow markings.—Edges of vernal pools, 
plains and valleys. 
4. M. bolanderi Gray. Tobacco Mimulus. Simple or with many 
erect branches, 1 to 4 dm. high, very viscid; leaves lanceolate or oblong, 
sessile; upper teeth of calyx much the longest; corolla dark red, its 
lips nearly equal.—Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada. 
5. M. cardinalis Dough Branched from the base, 2.8 to 8.6 dm. high; 
leaves elliptic-ovate, 4.8 cm. long or more, toothed; flowers solitary in 
the axils, much shorter than the pedicels; corolla strongly 2-lipped, scar¬ 
let, 3 to 4.8 cm. long, the tube little exserted from calyx.—Stream banks 
or about springs. 
