FIGWORT FAMILY 



THE LEAVES: alternate, those on the flowering stem scat- 

 tered; erect; linear or somewhat oblong; smooth on both 

 surfaces; acutish at the apex; stemless; entire; the leaves 

 on the sterile shoots opposite. 



THE FLOWERS: in slender, long and loose racemes, spurred; 

 the lower lip large and three-lobed with a white, convex 

 two-ridged throat; the upper lip with two acute divisions; 

 the spur curving and thread-like, rarely pink, frequently 

 white. 



THE FRUIT: a capsule. 



A low and very straight plant, which has thin branches 

 (if it is branched at all) and very few leaves on the slender 

 flowering stem. It stands stiffly erect in the sandy ground 

 or often in pure gravel. It is the small lavender flowers 

 that make the plant attractive. They grow in a long and 

 loose cluster down the stem; they are two-lipped and 

 spurred and carry a dainty touch of white at the throat. 



SCROPHULARIACE^: FIGWORT FAMILY 



Linaria vulgaris, Hill. 



Yellow and orange Butter and eggs, Devil's Flower, 



Yellow Toad Flax, Brideweed, 



July- September Wild Flax, Ramsted, 



Devil's Flax, Ramcid, 



Flaxweed, Deadmen's-bones, 



Eggs and Bacon, Jacob's Ladder, 



Bread and Butter, Impudent Lawyer. 

 Wild Snap-dragon, 



Linaria: for derivation see canadensis. 

 Vulgaris: Latin for common. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: dry ground, dumps. 



THE PLANT: erect, one foot to two and a half feet high; 

 the stem slender, pale green, very leafy with a slight 

 bloom, hairless or with a few short, soft hairs. 



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