Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Volume 26 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...with abortive anthers: style puberulent above; capsule cartilaginous, very gibbous, laterally compressed, narrowed from a moderately broad base, acute, deeply furrowed on the sides; seeds minute, acute at each end.--Collected by Sir. J. W. Congdon, in Mariposa County, California, at Zimmerman's Ranch, in March, 1887, in April, 1888 (flowers and fruil), and in May, 1888 (fruit); also at Stockton Creek, March, 1889 (flowers); and at Agua Fria (fruit). The diminutive size and nearly acaulescent character of flowering specimens of this plant made it at first appear probable that it represented merely a dwarfed, early-spring form of one of the larger-flowered species. The constant characters of Mr. Congdon's specimens, however, collected as they were at different dates and localities, and representing very different stages of development, prove it a normal form and a distinct species. While the vegetative habit is much like that of M. Kelloygii, Curran, it is distinguished from that species by its much shorter corolla-tube and smaller limb, as well as by its acute and not at all oblong capsules. From M. pulcfiellus, Greene, it differs in its smaller rose-purple corolla without the yellow lip, in its much shorter calyxteeth, and in other ways. In its short corolla-tube and very gibbous capsule it resembles M. latifolius, Gray, but differs in its smaller size, in its habit of branching from the base, (the stem of M. latifolius although branching above is simple below, ) in its very slender calyxtube, longer and usually reflexed peduncles, and relatively slender and more acute capsules. Like M. latifolius, this species is somewhat intermediate between (Enoe and Eunanus. Mimulus Gracilipes. A delicate annual, 3 to 5 inches high; stem usually simple, glan...