Tab. 6391. 

 ANTIRRHINUM hispanicum. 



Native of Spain. 



Nat. Ord. Scrophularine.*:.— Tribe Antirrhine.e. 

 Genus Antirrhinum, Linn. {Benth. et Hook,/. Gen. Plant. vol.ii. p. 9 34). 



Antirrhinum (Antirrhinastrum) hispanicum; glanduloso-villosum, caule e basi 

 tortuoso-ramoso, ramulis brevibus adscendentibus, foliis parvis breviter petio- 

 latis plerumque alternis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis v. obtusis, 

 racemo interrupto paucifioro, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis segmentis 

 ovatis v. ovato-oblongis acutis, corolla pollicari pubescente pallide purpurea, 

 palato stramineo, capsula late ovoidea, seminibus rugosis. 



A. hispanicum, Chavanne Monogr. p. 83 ; Benth. in A. DC. Prod. vol. x. p. 291 ; 

 Willk. 3 Lange, Fl. Hisp. vol. ii. p. 584; Boiss. 3 Rent. Pugill I85S, p. 81. 



A. glutinosum, Boiss. 3 Reut. I. c. 82 ; Willk. 3 Lange, I. c 



A. glutinosum var. rupestre, Willk. 3 Lange, I. c. 



A. rupestre, Boiss. 3 Reut. I. c. ; non Bourg. PL Esp. 1851. 



A. molle, Boiss. partim. 



This dwarf species of Snap-dragon forms a small bushy- 

 herb, with copious large flowers of a very delicate colour, 

 and has continued flowering for at least three months oi the 

 present year, whieh has been singularly favourable to the 

 herbaeeous plants at Kew. It is a native of many parts ot 

 Spain, from the Pyrenees southwards, and is found on the 

 walls of the Alhambra. It varies a little in habit, and in the 

 form of the calyx-lobes, as is the case with other species ot 

 the genus; and I cannot, after a comparison of numerous 

 specimens, regard A. glutinosum of Boissier and Renter as 

 anything but a form of it, which is quite indistinguishable 

 in a dry state. Our plant was raised at Kew from seed sent 

 by Mr. Thompson of Ipswich, as A. rupestre, Boiss. and 

 Eeuter, a species reduced by Willkomm and Lange m their 

 " Flora Hispanica," to a variety of A. glutinosum. The A 

 molle, also a plant of Spain, which has been confounded with 

 this, is a very different species, having short procrnnbent 

 branches, and being copiously clothed with white woolly hairs. 



OCTOBER 1st, 1878. 



