: _ bloffoms is a fine rich brown, inclined to purple. » 2 
with us, bat it muft not be too tenderly treated, as it lofes 
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-ANTIRRHINUM TRISTE. MELANCHOLY oF 
BLACK-FLOWER’D TOAD-FLAX. 
Clafs and Order. 
DipYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
‘Generic Charaéfer. 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. bafis deorfum prominens, neCtarifera, 
Capf. 2. locularis. | 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
ANTIRRHINUM ¢r#fe foliis linearibus fparfis inferioribuss 
oppofitis neétariis fubulatis, floribus fub- 
feffilibus. Lzn. Sy/. Vegetab. 2. BEG. ; 
LINARIA triftis balpanica. Dill. Elth. 201. 4 164. f. 199 
Receives its name of friffe from: the fombre appearance of 
its flowers; but this muft be underftood when placed at fome 
little diftance, for, on a near view, the principal colour of the” 
Is a native of ‘Spain, and of courfe a green-houfe plant 
much of its beauty when drawn up, it fhould therefore be 
_ kept out of doors when the feafon will admit, as it only re 
_ quires fhelter from fevere froft, and that a common hot-bed 
frame will in general fufficiently afford it. 4 
It flowers during moft of the fummer months; as it rarely 
_Or never ripens its feeds with us, the ufual mode of propaga- 
ting it, is by cuttings, which ftrike readily tis in the come- 
_ Mon way. 
Mi cer relates that it was firft sntwantonds into thi COU 
by Sir Cuarres Wace, from Gibraltar feeds. 
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