the present individual, which, though called Canadensis, 
is not only found in all the temperate and warm regions of 
North America, but extends likewise through the greater 
part, if not the whole, of South America,* both on the 
Atlantic and Pacific sides; so that few phcenogamous 
plants can boast so extended a range. If we exclude the 
very dubious Linarra tenella, Pu. (not Cav.) this is the 
only species indigenous to North America; and except 
the Linaria glabrata of Humeoxpr, there seems to be no 
other found in South America. The present species is 
remarkable for the very large lower lip of the corolla and 
the very slightly projecting palate: the faux, however, as 
WILLDENow well observes, is not pervious, whence it dif- 
fers from the Genus Anarruinum. 
Although a plant known since the days of Linnaus, and 
even Gronovius, it does not appear to have been intro- 
duced to our gardens till the spring of last year, when 
Mr. Drummonp sent seeds (as well as specimens) from 
Texas, which produced flowering plants the ensuing sum- 
mer. It is a hardy annual, and, on account of its compara- 
tively large and delicate flowers, well worthy of being 
perpetuated in our gardens. 
Descr. Annual. Stems often several from the same: 
- root, erect, a foot or more high, simple or branched, throw- 
_Ing out several procumbent stolones or barren shoots at 
the base, asin Linarta simplex, and especially L. Pelisseri- 
anum. Leaves linear, alternate, and rather remote on the 
flowering-stems, on the procumbent shoots crowded, often 
ternate and quaternate, all of them perfectly glabrous, 
entire, slightly glaucous. Racemes terminal, of several 
handsome, large, and extremely delicate, pale purple fow- 
ers, streaked with darker veins. Pedicels short. Calyx of 
five deep, glabrous segments. Corolla with the lower lip 
remarkably large and deflexed, cut into three truncated or 
retuse lobes, the disk pale, slightly prominent, but present- 
ing no manifest projection or palate, yet closing the faux. 
Capsule globose, compressed, scarcely longer than the ca- 
lyx, crowned with the short persistent style. 
a ae 
* I have specimens from Lurin, in Peru, gathered by Mr. Marnews; 
_ from Chili, by Mr. CrucksHanxks and Mr. CuminG; from Valdivia, by 
Mr. Bripces; from Paraguay, by Mr. Barr; from Maldonado, by Dr. 
GiLtigs ; and from Rio Grande do Sul, by Mr. Tweepre: whilst SELLOW 
a detected it in other parts of South Brazil, according to CHaMrsso in 
, Linnea, v. 2. p. 591. 
