SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



4. Linaria repens (L.) Mill. Pale- 

 blue Toad-Flax. Fig. 3746. 



Antirrhinum repens L. Sp. PI. 614. 1753. 



Linaria repens Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 6. 

 1768. 



L. striata DC. Fl. France, 3: 586. 1805. 



Glabrous, perennial by a horizontal or 

 creeping rootstock ; stem erect, or the base 

 decumbent, 8'-3o' high, usually branched, 

 the branches slender. Leaves linear, en- 

 tire, short-petioled or sessile, i'-2' long, 

 I "-2" wide, narrowed to both ends, the 

 lower crowded, sometimes whorled, the 

 upper more scattered ; flowers in slender 

 terminal elongating racemes ; pedicels 2"- 

 5" long; bracts narrowly linear, acute; 

 corolla nearly white, but striped with blue 

 or purple, about 6" long ; spur short, conic; 

 capsule subglobose ; seeds wrinkled, wing- 

 less. 



Newfoundland, and in ballast about the 

 Atlantic seaports. Adventive from Europe. 

 Summer. 



6. ANTIRRHINUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 612. 1753. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with alternate leaves, or the lower and those of sterile shoots 

 opposite, and mostly large red purple yellow or white flowers, in terminal racemes, or soli- 

 tary in the upper axils. Calyx 5-parted, the segments imbricated. Corolla irregular, gibbous, 

 or saccate, but not spurred at the base, 2-lipped, the upper lip erect, 2-lobed, the lower spread- 

 ing, 3-lobed, its base produced into a palate nearly or quite closing the throat. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, included; filaments filiform, or dilated at the summit. Style filiform. Capsule 

 ovoid or globose, opening by chinks or pores below the summit. Seeds numerous, oblong, 

 truncate, rugose or smooth, not winged. [Greek, nose-like.] 



About 40 species, natives of Europe, Asia and western North America. Besides the following 

 introduced species, some 18 others inhabit the western United States. Type species: Antirrhinum 

 ma jus L. 



Flowers i' ij' long; calyx-segments ovate, much shorter than the corolla. 

 Flowers 5 "-7" long; calyx-segments linear, as long as the corolla. 



i. Antirrhinum majus L. Great Snap- 

 dragon. Lion's-mouth. Fig. 3747. 



Antirrhinum majus L. Sp. PI. 617. 1753. 



Perennial, glabrous below, usually more or 

 less glandular-pubescent above; stem branched 

 or simple, i-3 high. Leaves lanceolate, linear 

 or oblong-lanceolate, entire, short-petioled, acute 

 at both ends, rather firm, glabrous, i'-3' long, 

 i"-S" wide; flowers racemose, purplish-red (of 

 a variety of colors in cultivated forms), i'-ii' 

 long; pedicels rather stout, 3"-6" long, erect in 

 fruit ; calyx-segments oval to ovate, obtuse, 2"- 

 3" long; capsule obliquely ovoid, 4"-s" high, 

 opening by 2 pores just below the summit or 

 at length apically 2-valved, much longer than 

 the calyx. 



In waste places, sparingly escaped from gardens 

 in the Atlantic States. Adventive from Europe. 

 Other English names are rabbit's mouth, bonny rab- 

 bits, calf-snout, dragon's-, tiger's-, dog's- or toad's- 

 mouth. Bulldogs. Lion's-snap. June-Sept. 



1. A. majus. 



2. A, Orontium. 



