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Antirrhinum Triornitiiophorum. Three- 

 Bird-Bearing Snap-Dragon. 



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Clafs and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cah 5-phylIus. Corolla bafis deorfam prominens, neftarifera. 

 Cap/. 2-locularis. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



ANTIRRHINUM triornithophorum, foliisquaternis [ternifque] 

 lanceolatis, caule ere6to ramofo, floribus 

 [ternis] pedunculatis. Spec. PI. 853. 



LINARIA Americana maxima, purpureo flore. Herman. 

 Lugdb. 377. 



LINARIA florc purpureo Americana. Riv. mon. t. 84. 

 'Jig. bona. 



It is rather furprifmg that this Antirrhinum, the moft 

 ihewy perhaps of the whole genus, though apparently neither 

 particularly tender nor difficult of propagation, mould be al- 

 rnoft unknown in this country*; notwithftandingit was cultivated 

 ■y Profeffor Herman, in the Botanic Garden at Leyden, more 

 than a century fincc. The Profeffor remarks, that it has a 

 creeping root, by which it diff'ufes itfelf widely, and puts forth 

 frefh fhoots every year, by which we may underftand, that it is 

 sufficiently hardy to bear the Dutch winters; he tells us alfo, 

 'hat it grows to the height of a man. Kept in a pot and treated 



. It is not mentioned in the Kew Catalogue ; we find, however, that it was 

 * Dr. Fothergill's Garden at Upton, in the year 1779. 



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