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ANTIRRHINUM LINARIA. | COMMON TOAD-FLAX. 
SYNONYMA. Linaria. Pharm. -Geoff. iii. 730. Dale. 193. 
Rutty. 2809. Bergius. 545. Murray. ii. 183. Lewis. 395. Ed, 
New Difpenf. 222. Linaria vulgaris lutea, flore majore. Baub. 
Pin. 212. Linaria lutea vulgaris. Gerard, Emac. 550. L. vul- 
garis noftras. Park. 458. Rai. Hit. 752. Synop. 281, Antirr- 
hinum Linaria. Hud/ Ang, 238. Withering. Bot. Arr. (048. Curt. 
Flor. Lond. i. §. 
Didynamia Angiofpermia. Lin, Gen. Plant. 750 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. bafis deorfum prominens, netarifera. 
Caps. 2-locularis. 
Sp. Ch. A, foliis lanceolato-linearibus confertis, caule credo, fpicis | 
| terminalibus feffilibus, floribus imbricatis. 
ROOT perennial, woody, eboked, creeping, white, fibrous. Stalks 
round, erect, fimple, tapering, fmooth, from one to two feet in height. 
Leaves nearly linear, pointed, fmooth, entire, thiokly feattered over 
the flalk. Flowers large, ‘yellow, and partly orange, crouded over 
each other in a terminal {pike. Calyx divided into five {mall oval 
fegments, of which the uppermoft is the largeft. Corolla monope- 
talous, bilabiated, or ringent, yellow, confifting of a fhort tube, and a 
limb compofed of two lips; upper lip bifid, having its fegments bend- 
ing down, afterwards turned back, and clofing together ; lower lip 
divided into three ferments, of which that in the middle is the leaft ; 
the mouth is clofed by a palate, which is bifid, prominent, villous 
at the bottom, and of a faffron colour. Filaments four, white, two 
long and two fhort, glandular at the bafe: anther yellow, bifid, 
joined in pairs. Germen round. Style filiform. Stigma clubbed. 
Gules of-a cylindrical form, opening by feveral divifions at the 
top, 
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