A charming little plant, from three to six inches tall, with pretty delicate flowers, from half an inch to an inch long, the corolla-lobes all alike, bright yellow, often dotted with crimson, growing singly on the tips of very slender flower-stalks, springing from a cluster of bright yellowish-green leaves, usually toothed, smooth, or sometimes hairy. This grows in moist mountain meadows.

Desert Monkey-flower. M.Fremontii. Little Yellow Monkey-flower-Mimulus primuloides. Little Pink Monkey-flower-M.Torreyi. FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae.