Tas. 7285. 
ANTIRRHINUM cuvtinosum. 
Native of Spain. 
Nat. Ord. ScRopHULARINES. Tribe ANTIRRHINEA. 
Genus Antirruinum, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 934), 
Antirguinum (Antirrhinastrum) glutinosum; perenne, prostratum, glanduloso- 
pilosum, ramis fragillimis, foliis alternis breviter petiolatis elliptico- 
oblongis -ovatisve obtusis utrinque pilosis, sensim in bracteis abeuntibus, 
floribus majusculis axillaribus erectis modice pedicellatis, calycis seg- 
mentis oblongo-linearibus glandulis sessilibus et stipitatis obsessis, 
corolle albze tubo piloso limbo equilongo, limbi labio superiore erecto 
bilobo rubro striolato, inferiore paulo latiore, palato magno prominente 
2-fido lobulis apice aureis, ovario strigoso, capsula viscida apice subin- 
curva calycem superante. 
A. glutinosum, Boiss. & Reut. Pugill. Pl. Nov. 1852, p. 82 (non Brotero). 
A. molle, Boiss. Voy. Esp. 747 (partim). 
A. hispanicum, Webb It. Hisp.; Benth in DC. Prod. vol. x., p. 291 ex parte 
(non Chav. Monog). 
The geographical distribution of the genus Antirrhinum 
is one of the most remarkable of the vegetable kingdom, 
and as far as I am aware it has not hitherto been brought 
to notice. Of about fifty-six well-determined species 
more than half are European, most of them confined to 
the western half of the continent, the Spanish Peninsula 
having ten, which are all but peculiar to itself. Three only 
are found as far Hast as Asia Minor, Syria, and Arabia 
respectively, and one, the English A. Orontium, reaches 
North-Western India as a weed of cultivation.* With 
the exception of two South African species, all the rest, 
twenty-three in number, are restricted to Western-North 
America, and almost exclusively to California. None 
inhabit the Eastern United States, Canada, Mexico proper, 
or South America. It might have been expected that the 
. * Mr. Hemsly informs me that the common Snapdragon, A. majus, is found 
in China, but doubtless as a cultivated plant. 
Maxcu Isr, 1893, 
