shaped, yellow hairs ; lobes transverse, spreading, even, entire,
glabrous, each marked with a large oblong spot and
dots of a dark fulvous red. Siamens A, didynamous, enclosed.
Filaments awl-shaped, glabrous, pale yellow; lower pair
lono-est. Anthers cordate, bilocular, with a convex, fleshy
connectivum; cells divaricate at the base, distinct at the
apex, and opening hy a marginal suture. _ Ovarium oblong
bilocular. Style filiform, glabrous. Stigma composed of
two broad, flat, papillose lobes, becoming revolute, the lower
°'^ThisÎingularly beautiful variety was raised at Miss W ilson’s,
Stanhard House, Stamford Hill, from seeds of the M.
luteus. „ , ■ ■ t, J
Like the other varieties of the same species, it is a hardy
perennial, growing freely in a mixture of peat and loam, and
readily increased by division and by slips.
Our drawing was taken in July last.
The name Mimulus was borrowed from Pliny, and was
applied by Linnæus to the present genus, most of whose
species are American. The word is derived from mimus,
and alludes to the personate or masked corolla. D . Don.