since adopted by Willdenow, Persoon, and other systematic 

 writers. The older botanists were sensible that it did not 

 perfectly accord with the genus Linaria, to which, however, 

 with Clusius, they generally united it. Linnaeus added it 

 to his too extensive genus of Antirrhinum, in which he 

 included Linaria and Orontium of former authors ; but later 

 botanists are now pretty generally agreed in again separating 

 the former of these. 



The only figure of our plant quoted in the Hortus Kewensis, 

 is the very erroneous one of Dodon^eus, which represents 

 the corolla with a very long spur : Clusius, Lobel, Gerard, 

 Parkinson, and Tabern,emontanus, all made use of the same 

 block or copies of it ; but Caspar Bauhin, in his Prodromus, 

 and John Bauhin, in his Historia, have given original figures 

 of our plant, and, although the latter is upon a very small 

 scale, yet both are far better than that of DodonjEus. 



Our observation accords with the description of most 

 botanists, who attribute a minute recurved spur to the corolla, 

 which both the Bauhins described as destitute of any. 



It does not seem to have ever had any title to the epithet 

 odorata, being quite scentless, as has been remarked by almost 

 every author that has given any description of it since Clusius, 

 who describes it as being a little sweet-scented ( aliquantulum 

 odorata) in warm climates, though scentless when cultivated 

 in Germany and Holland. • 



A hardy annual, or at most biennial. Flowers from June 

 to October. Communicated by Mr. William Anderson, 

 from the Apothecaries Botanical Garden in Chelsea. 



Our drawing was taken from a weak plant : it sometimes 

 attains the height of two feet, and is much branched. 



