our plate, discoid with an orbicular wing, but minute 
trigonous and deeply transversely grooved. | 
L. pallidifora was raised from seed brought by Mr. Maw 
and myself from Marocco in 1871, and flowered in July of the 
following year. It is a native of Sicily and Cyprus, but was 
discovered by Desfontaines in North Africa, and described and 
figured by him as ZL. heterophylla in 1798. Willdenow, in 
1800, referring all Linarias to Antirrhinum, in which there was 
already an JA. heterophyllum, altered the trivial name to apari- 
noides ; lastly, Chavin, in 1833, restored the plant to Linaria, 
but carelessly adopted Willdenow’s trivial name, in which he 
has been followed by subsequent authors. The L. tingitana 
of Bossier and Heldreich is a more robust variety, with broader 
leaves, which has been gathered by Mr. Ball and myself at 
Cape Spartel. The Mount Atlas specimens are much more 
slender than those found nearer the coast. The L. viscosa, 
Dum., of Spain, is probably another form. 
Descr. A tall annual erect herb, two to three feet high, 
dark green, not glaucous, branching from the base, glabrous 
below, glandular-pubescent towards the tips of the branches 
and throughout the inflorescence. Leaves scattered, spreading, 
one to two inches long, narrow linear or acicular, obtuse, 
rarely narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, rather fleshy, 1-nerved. 
Racemes usually branched at the base, branches slender, not 
leafy, elongating much after flowering, conical in bud. 
Flowers densely packed, shortly pedicelled ; bracts oblong- 
Imear or subspathulate, obtuse, shorter than the pedicels, or 
equalling them, suberect, green. Calyx rather longer than 
the pedicel, one quarter to one third of an inch long; seg- 
ments linear-oblong or spathulate, obtuse, green, erect, not 
spreading, nearly equal. Corol/a, including the spur, an inch 
long, very pale straw-coloured, with a pale golden yellow 
patch; upper lip very long, erect, 2-lobed to the middle, 
keeled in front, the lobes obtuse reflected ; lower lip veined, 
side lobes deflected, midlobe very short, semicircular ; palate 
obtusely conical, 2-lobed; spur slender, very acute, quite 
‘Straight, in a line with and as long as the neck of the corolla. 
Style 2-fid. Capsule very small, equalling the calyx, obtuse, 
compressed. Seeds minute, curved, black, deeply transversely 
grooved.—/J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower: magnified.—N.B. The figure of the fruit and seeds 
(fig. 3) should be cancelled. I suspect that they were taken from 
ose (Tab. nost. 59838), which was collected along with LD. hetero- 
pryta, 
