66 Mimulus alatus.
a rib running down from the point to the base. Peduncles scarce exceeding
an eighth of an inch or a quarter of an inch long, situated in
the axils of the leaves. Flowers numerous and showy. Corolla campanula
purple. Grows along the banks of meadows, drains, and rivulets,
delighting in shady and boggy soil—flowering in August.
This and M. ringens resemble each other so nearly, as to be easily
confounded together. A decided specific difference however, exists
in the petiolated leaves and nearly sessile flowers in the present species,
contrasted with the sessile leaves and long pedunculate flowers
of the M. ringens; besides this, the stem is not winged in the latter.
The table represents a portion of the plant as large as nature.
