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upper lip bifid, retiexed, lower 3-cleft, throat closed by the prominent pal- 

 ate, tube inflated, with a spur behind. Caps. 2-celled, bursting below the 

 summit. Herbs. Lower leaves generally opposite, upper alternate. Fls. 

 solitan*, axillary, often forming terminal, leafy racemes. Fig. 70. 



* Stoms prostrate, creeping. Leaves broad, reniform or hastate. Ear Noe. 1, 2 



* Stems erect, with narrow leaves, mostly scattered Nos. 3 5 



* Stems erect, with broad lanceolate leaves, ail verticillate No. 6 



1 Li. C'ynibalaria. Lvs. palmate-veined, reniform, 5-7-lobed, mostly alternate ; fls. 



axillary, small, yellow, spur shorter than tube. U Smooth, delicate. 



2 I*. Elatine L. Hairy; Ivs. feather-veined, hastate, entire, alternate; ped. solitary, 



long ; cor. yellow and purple. (T) Fields. 1 2f. Very slender. Eur. July. 



3 Ij. Caiiadensis Dumont. Lvs. scattered, erect, linear, obtuse ; fls. racemed; st. 



simple ; scions procumbent ; fls. blue. (T) Fields, waysides. 6 12'. Very slender. 

 Flowers small, in a loose raceme. Spur filiform, long, short, or 0. June Sept. 



4 L. vulgarls Mill. Common Toad-flax. Leaves linear-lanceolate, crowded ; spikes 



terminal; fls. dense, imbricate; cal. smooth, shorter than the spur, u Meadows, way- 

 sides. 1 2f. Very leafy, with showy rac. of yellow and orange fls. Jl., Aug. Eur. 

 )3. Perorits. Corolla with 3 5 spurs, and a regular border of 3 5 lobes, with 5 

 stamens. Penn. (Dr. Darlington). Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (Mr. W. R. Gerard). 



5 L. BIPARTITA. Erect ; Ivs. linear, alternate ; ped. much longer than the lance-linear, 



scarions-edged sepals ; cor. 8 10 /r , violet, the palate orange. 



6 L. TRIORNITHOPHORUM. Three Birds. Smooth, glaucous; leaves in3'sand4's; fls. 



whorled, each resembling 3 little birds, u Eur. 2 3f. Curious. 



10. ANTIRRHINUM, L. SNAP-DRAGON. Calyx 5-sepalled. Corolla 

 gibbous (not spurred) at base of tube, throat closed (personate) by the 

 prominent palate, upper lip bifid, reflexed, lower trifid. Sta. 4. Capsules 

 opening by 2 or 3 pores, as in Linaria. Herbs, European, &c., with the 

 lower leaves opposite, the upper alternate. Flowers axillary, large, ra- 

 cemed above. Fig. 502. 



1 A. MAJUS. Erect ; leaves lanceolate ; fls. evidently racemed ; sep. hairy, shorter than 



the cor. tube ; cor. pink, purple, or scarlet, mouth yellow, n 18'. Fls. V. Summer. 



2 A. OR6NTIUM. Low, spreading; Ivs. oblong-lanceolate; fls. smaller than in A. majus 



(6"), the sepals equalling the cor., which is rose or white, with purp. spots. (T) Sum. 



11. MAURANDIA, Ort. Calyx 5-parted. Cor. bilabiate, tube scarcely 

 gibbous at base, throat open, with 2 prominent glabrous folds, upper lip of 

 2 rounded lobes, lower of 3. Sta. 4. Caps, oblique, opening by chinks 

 below the apex. if. Mexican, climbing and twining, with large purple 

 flowers all Summer. 



1 M. ANTIRRHINIFLORA. Leave? mostly triangular-hastate : fls. glabrous, 1', tube some 



gibbous at base,, throat partly closed by the prominent hairy palate. lOf. 



2 1M. SEMPERFI.ORENS. Lvs. cordate-hastate, angular ; calyx glabrous ; cor. be'l-form, 



not gibbous (throat open), If long, pale violet or rose-colored. lOf. 



3 Id. BARCLAYANA. Leaves broadly triangular-cordate or hastate; calyx clothed with 



long glandular hairs ; cor. near 2' long, very oblique, purple, throat open. lOf. 



12. LOPHOSPERMUM, Don. Corolla tubular-campanulate, limb 5- 

 lobed, subregular, throat open, between two hairy lines. Caps, globular. 

 Seeds winged. Otherwise as in Maurandia. Fig. 106. 



