CALCEOLARIA. 



cordate, very spreading. Flowers pale yellow. — Leaves said to be 

 purgative and emetic. 



LINARIA. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla personate, with a short inflated 

 tube, calcarate at the base, with the palate prominent or occa- 

 sionally depressed. Stamens hairy at the base. Style thickened 

 at the apex or bifid ; stigma emarginate or 2-lobed. Capsule 

 opening by pores, or opercular valves, or teeth. 



1054. L. vulgaris Ait. hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 17. Chavannes 

 monogr. p. 131. — Antirrhinum Linaria Linn, sp.pl. 858. Eng. 

 Bot. t. 658. Woodv. t. 221. Smith Eng. Fl. iii. 134.— Com- 

 mon in Europe by the sides of hedges and ditches. (Toadflax.) 



Root creeping, somewhat woody. Herbage smooth, bright green, 

 scarcely at all glaucous. Stems 2 feet high, densely clothed with 

 scattered narrow acute leaves, terminated by a spike of rich yellow 

 large flowers. Palate of the corolla downy and orange-coloured; spur 

 pendulous, as long as the tube, and twice as long as the calyx. Calyx 

 smooth. Capsule opening with 4 or 5 lanceolate valves to each cell. — 

 Reputed to be purgative and diuretic. It is bitter. Its flowers have 

 been recommended in decoction as a wash for chronic diseases of the 

 skin ; and that it would not be an inactive lotion seems probable from 

 the fact that in London the plant is occasionally boiled in milk for the 

 purpose of destroying flies. Burnett. 



1055. L. Cymbalaria Ait. hort. Ketv. ed. 2. iii. 10. Chavannes 

 monogr. p. 98. — Antirrhinum Cymbalaria, Linn. sp. pi. 851. 

 Eng. Bot. t. 502. Smith Eng. Fl. iii. 131. — On old walls in 

 many parts of Europe, especially the southern. (Ivy-leaved 

 Snapdragon.) 



Stems long, pendulous, filiform, very much branched and entangled, 

 smooth, hanging from old walls in graceful festoons. Leaves cordate, 

 5-lobed, alternate, smooth, not unlike those of Ivy. Flowers solitary, 

 on long axillary stalks, small, variegated with violet and blue ; the palate 

 yellow, the spur short and pointed. Capsule roundish, much and 

 irregularly torn at the top. Seeds black, wrinkled. — Has a warm 

 cress-like flavour, and has been recommended as an antiscorbutic. 

 Hamilton says, that in India it is given with sugar in cure of diabetes, 

 and from the report of its influence over that disorder, it well deserves 

 to be tried by the European practitioner. It is, however, probable that 

 Dr. Hamilton's remarks do not apply to this plant, which does not 

 grow in India, but to L. ramosissima Wall., a nearly allied species. 



1055 a. Linaria Elatine Ail. is said to be bitter and purgative. 



VANDELLIA. 



Calyx tubular or campanulate, nearly equal, 5-toothed or 

 5-parted. Corolla exserted, bilabiate, 5-cleft ; upper lip shortest. 

 Stamens didynamous, the 2 upper shortest with entire filaments, 

 the 2 lower inserted at the base of the lower lip, with long curved 

 filaments having a tooth-like or filiform appendage at the base. 

 Anthers adhering in pairs, 2-celled, with diverging or divari- 

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