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MIMULUS LUTEUS.
Yellow-ftowered Minmlus.
CLASS XIV. ORDER II.
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX prismaticus, 5-dentatus. Corolla ringens,
labio superiore lateribus replicato. Stigma craisura.
Capsula bilocularis, polysperma.
EMPALEMENT prismatical, 5-toothed. Blossom
ringent, the upper lip folded back at the sides.
Shaft fleshy. Seed-vessel two-celledj manyseeded.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
MIMULUS foliis subcordatis, multi-nervosisj dentatis.
Habitat in Peru.
MONKEY-FLOWER with nearly heart-shaped
leaves, many-nerved and toothed.
Native of Peru.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A radical leaf.
2. The erapalement.
3. A blossom spread open.
4. Seed-bud and pointal.
THE Mimulus liiteus flowers the same year it is sown, like an annual -, but from its habit and manner
of throwing out round the base of the flowering stem prostrate branches, which take root, and from the
extremities of some of them other flowering stems shooting up, we are inclined to think it biennial. It
was long ago described and figured by Father Feuillée in his Flora Peruviana, and quoted from him by
Linnseus, who inserted it in his Species Plantarum under the specific title of luteus. It flowers in the
autumnal months, and enlivens the borders with its successively numerous bright yellow blossoms; is
easily propagated by seeds j and^ according to Bonn' s Catalogue, was introduced in the year 1812.
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