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12. COLLJNSIA. (Named by Nuttall for the late Zuccheus Collins of 

 Philadelphia.) Flowers handsome, mostly 2-colored. 



C. verna. Wild from Western New York W. : slender, 6' - 20' high, with 

 ovate or lanee-ovutc and toothed leaves, the upper clasping heart-shaped, and 

 slender-pcduncled flowers in early spring, lower lip blue, upper white. 



C. bicolor, of California, and a handsome garden annual, is stouter, with 

 crowded flowers as if whorled, pedicels shorter than calyx, lower lip of corolla 

 violet, the upper pale or white, or in one variety both white. 



13. LINARIA, TOAD-FLAX. (Name from Linum, Fiax, from resem- 

 blance in the leaves of the commoner species.) Fl. summer. 



* Lcams narrow, sessile, and entire : steins erect : flowers racemed. 



L. Canadensis, WILD T. Gravelly and sandy ground, with scattered 

 linear leaves on the slender flowering stems, or ob!ong and in pairs or threes on 

 prostrate shoots, and very small blue flowers, (ij 



Li. vulgaris, COMMON T., RAMSTED, BUTTER-AND-EGGS. A showy but 

 troublesome European weed, of fields and roadsides, l-3 high, with alternate 

 crowded linear or lanceolate pale leaves, and a dense raceme of yellow flowers 

 (!' long) with paler tips. 2/ 



L. triornithophora. Cult, from Europe : glaucous, 2 - 3 high, with 

 ovate-lanceolate leaves in whorls, and rather large slender-peduncled long-spurred 

 flowers, violet and purple-striped. 2/ 



# * Leaves broad, often lobed : stems and branches trailing : /lowers very small, 

 yellow and purple mixed, on /on</ axillary p'duncles : natives of Europe. 



L. Elatine. Nat. in gravelly or sandy soil : hairy, with ovate and halberd- 

 shaped >hort-petioled leaves, the lower ones opposite. 



L. Cymbalaria. Cult, as a delicate little trailing ornamental plant : very 

 smooth, pale, with rooting branches, and thickish almost kidney -shaped 3-5- 

 lobed leaves on long petioles. 2/ 



14. ANTIRRHINUM, SNAPDRAGON. (Name from the Greek, 

 compares the flower with the snout or muzzle of an animal.) Nat. and cult, 

 from Europe : 11. summer. 



1. TRUE SNAPDRAGON, with palate closing the mouth of the corolla, and erect 

 or ascending stems, ttot climbing. 



A. majus, LARGE S. of the gardens; with stems l-3 high, oblong or 

 lanceolate entire smooth leaves, and glandular-downy raceme of showy flowers, 

 the crimson, purple, white, or variegated corolla over 1' long. 2/ 



A. Ordntium, SMALL S. Weed in some old gardens and cult, grounds ; 

 low, slender, with linear leaves, and white or purplish axillary flowers ' 

 long. 



2. MAURANDIA-LIKE S., with palate not so large, nor fully closing the mouth, 

 and stems climbing by the coiling of their slender petio/is and sometimes of 

 the peduncles a/so. 



A. maurandioides, cult, from Texas and Mexico, as MAUKANDIA 

 ANTIRRIIINIFLORA ; smooth, with triangular-halberd-shapcd leaves, or some of 

 them heart-shaped, and showy flowers in their axils, the violet or purple corolla 

 1 ' or more long. 2/ 



15. MAURANDIA. (Named for Prof. .}faitradt/.) Excluding the last 

 preceding species, which has the flower of Snapdragon, and including 

 LOPHOSPERMUM, which has wing-margined seeds. Mexican climbers, with 

 triangular and heart-shaped or halberd-shaped and obscurely lobed leaves, 

 tender, cult, for ornament: fl. all summer. 



1. Corolla naked inside, rather obri<nis(</ -2-lipped. 



M. Barclayana. Stems and leaves smooth ; calyx glandular-hairy, clam- 

 my, its divisions lance-linear ; corolla purple, usually dark, 2' or more long. 



