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‖ mimulus Bot.|ˈmɪmjʊləs|
Also 8 mimmulus.
[mod.L.; app. dim. of L. mīmus mime n. The application by Linnæus (sense 2) is supposed to allude to the resemblance of the flowers to a mask.]
†1. The Louse-wort or Red Rattle, Pedicularis sylvatica. Obs.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Mimmulus, the Herb Rattle, or Louse-wort. 1727Bailey vol. II. 1794 Curtis's Bot. Mag. VIII. 283 Mimmulus is a classical word for the Pedicularis, or Lousewort.
2. [Linnæus 1741, in Acta Soc. Reg. Scient. Upsaliensis 82.] An annual or perennial herb of the large genus so called, belonging to the family Scrophulariaceæ and widely distributed in America, Asia, and Africa, esp. Mimulus luteus, the monkey-flower, a yellow-flowered perennial, native to western North America but naturalized elsewhere.
M. moschatus is commonly known as the musk plant.
1768P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 8) s.v. Mimulus. Upright Mimulus with oblong linear leaves. 1794Curtis's Bot. Mag. VIII. 283 Linnæus first gave to it [sc. Mimulus ringens] the name of Mimulus. 1824Loudon Encycl. Gardening Index, Mimulus, monkey-flower. 1882Garden 10 June 406/3 Single Mimuluses in variety..have been the most brilliant outdoor hardy flowers I have. 1900L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. II. 1018/1 There is nothing difficult in the culture of Mimulus. Some of the finest plants have been self-sown on a rubbish heap. 1905Longm. Mag. Jan. 253 The showy yellow flowers of the North American mimulus may be seen. 1963Times 25 Apr. 14/6, I think of a turn in a wood and a solitary exquisite butterfly-orchis; of a wide green hillside and a patch of mimulus beside a grooved trickle of water. 1974A. Scott-James Sissinghurst xiii. 143 The mimulus continues as the centrepoint. |