Stems.—Three to twelve inches high; erect; spreading. Leaves.—Opposite; sessile; palmately five- to seven-parted; seemingly whorled. Flowers.—In terminal clusters. Corolla.—Salver-shaped; rose-pink, lilac, or white, with a yellow or dark throat; its tube filiform, about an inch long; limb eight to ten lines across. Filaments and style slender; exserted. (See Gilia.) Hab.—Throughout the western part of the State; into the Sierra foothills.
The delicate flowers of this little plant may be found nestling amid the grasses of dry hill-slopes in late spring, often making charming bits of color. It is usually rather a low plant, but in specially favorable situations it rises to a foot in height. Its fragile flowers vary from pure white to lilac and a lovely rose-pink, and look like small phloxes.
Mimulus Douglasii, Gray. Figwort Family.
Flowering at half an inch high; later becoming a span high. Leaves.—Ovate or oblong; three- to five-nerved at base; narrowed into a short petiole. Flowers.—Rich maroon, with deeper color in the throat and some yellow below. Calyx.—Five-toothed. Corolla.—An inch to eighteen lines long; with dilated throat. Lower lip much shorter than the ample, erect, upper one; sometimes almost wanting. (See Mimulus.) Hab.—Throughout California.
This little Mimulus is quite common upon gravelly or stony hills. Its pert little maroon flowers, with their very long tubes and erect lobes, so ridiculously out of proportion to the size of the tiny plant, give it the look of some very important small personage.
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