1893 



* ANTIRRHfNUM glanduI6sum. 

 Glandular Snapdragon. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Scrophulariaceje. 



ANTIRRHINUM L. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla personata, tubo crasso 

 vel elongate, basi saccato. Capsula 3 poris valvulatis, v. rarius 2 foraminibus 

 irregularibus sub apice dehiscens. Chavannes Monogr. 74. 



A. glandulosum ; undique pilis capitatis subviscidis conspersum ; foliis alternis 

 petiolatis anguste ovato-lanceolatis, racemo denso folioso, calycis lobis 

 lineari-lanceolatis inaequalibus. 



Caulis bipedalis, erectus, ratnosus, Icete viridis, glandulis pilorum den- 

 sissimorum rufescens. Folia subsucculenta, superne lucida, in spontaned 

 parva et fere linearia. Racemus cylindraceus, terminalis, densissimus, brac- 

 teis foliaceis longe ultra Jiores inferiores projicientibzis. Flores solitarii 

 brevi-pedunculati. Sepala lineari-lanceolata, tubo corollce duplo breviora, 

 incequalia ; dorsali lateralibus longiore. Corolla tubo cylindraceo labioque 

 superiore roseis, labio inferiore ochroleuco, basi antice gibboso ; labii infe- 

 rioris laciniis cequalibus rotundatis. Stamina tubo cequalia, filamentis basi 

 oblique tortis et dilatatis inferiorum basi barbatis, superiorum pubescentibus ; 

 antheris glaberrimis. Capsula immatura subrotundo-ovata, papyracea, pilosa ; 

 maturam non vidi. 



This, if not a very pretty plant, is something of a geogra- 

 phical curiosity, it being the first species of the genus 

 Antirrhinum which has yet been found certainly wild in the 

 New World ; the specimens of A. orontium that have been 

 met with in the United States, are believed to have been 

 introduced from Europe. 



* The avrtpp/voj' of Theophrastusand Dioscorides was probably Antirrhinum 

 Orontium. The name, which may be literally rendered Snoutwort, has obviously 

 been derived from the appearance of the corolla, which resembles the snout of 

 some animal. 



