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MIMULUS cardinalis.
Scarlet Monkey-flower.
Linnean Class and Order. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Natural Order. SCROPHULARINEiE. Trib. 3. GRATIOLEiE. D.
Don in edinb, phil. journ. July 1835, p. 111.
MIMUL US. Suprà fol. 210.
M. cardinalis, villosa, viscosa ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis dentatis, pedunculis
calyce longioribus, dentibus calycinis acutis, corollae lobis emarginatis,
antberis bispidis.
Mimulus cardina ■is. Lindl. in hort. trans. n. s. vol. 2. p. 70. t. 3.
Plant herbaceous, copiously clothed with long, shaggy,
soft, white, jointed, viscid hairs, emitting on being passed
through the hand a slight musky odour. Root fibrous.
Stem erect, cylindrical, pale green, branched, spreading,
from 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves opposite, spreading, ovate-
lanceolate, acute, sharply and unequally toothed and serrated,
5-nerved, of a thin texture, pale green, from 2 to 5 inches
long, and from one to two in breadth, rather rough above;
lower ones narrowed towards the base; upper ones amplexicaul.
Flowers axillary, solitary, pedunculated. Peduncles
filiform, longer than the leaves, becoming straight and rigid
after flowering. Calyx tubular, membranous, villous, an inch
long, with 5 prominent, green angles; teeth 5, broadly ovate,
acute, couduplicate, nearly equal. Corolla tubular; tube
orange, slightly compressed, longer than the calyx, marked
within with several carmine stripes, and on the lower side
furnished with two broad lines of cylindrical, blunt, yellow
hairs; limb 5-lobed, bilabiate, scarlet above, buif-coloured
bene ath; upper lip erect, 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed ;