Sticky Monkey-Flower
Mimulus Glutinosus, Wend. Figwort Family
Glutinous shrubs two to six feet high. Leaves.—Narrowly oblong to linear; one to four inches long; with margins at length rolled backward. Flowers.—Corn-color to red; eighteen lines to three inches long. Calyx.—Irregularly five-toothed. Corolla.—Funnel-form; five-lobed; the lobes gnawed. Stigma.—White. (See Mimulus.) Hab.—San Francisco to San Diego, and southward.
STICKY MONKEY-FLOWER—Mimulus glutinosus.
During a walk upon the hills, at almost any time of year, we may find the corn-colored blossoms of the sticky monkey-flower, but they are most abundant in spring and summer. When in full flower the small bushes are very ornamental, as they are a perfect mass of bloom. They are said to be especially handsome as greenhouse plants.
The flowers vary through a wide range of color, from almost white to a rich scarlet, but the commoner hue is the corn-color. The scarlet-flowered form, found at San Diego, constitutes the var. puniceus, Gray. Another form, with red-brown to salmon-colored flowers on very short pedicels, is the var. linearis, Gray. The very long-flowered form is the var. brachypus, Gray. The sensitive lips of the stigma close upon being touched or after receiving pollen.