33S PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Thesium. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root of many long, thick, zigzag fibres. Stem erect, 3 or 4 inches 

 high, branched, round, smooth, densely clothed with elliptic- 

 oblong, convex, entire, smooth leaves, pale underneath, saltish 

 to the taste. Footstalks very short, or scarcely any. Stipulas 

 none. Ft. axillary, solitary, nearly sessile, flesh-coloured. 



12G. THESIUM. Bastard-toadflax. 



Linn. Gen. 114. Juss.75. R Br. 269. Lam. t. 142. Gcertji. t.86. 



Nat. Ord. Vepreculce. Linn. 31. Elceagni. Juss. 75. Santa- 

 lacece. Br. Pr. 350. 



Cal. superior, of 1 leaf, internally coloured, divided half 

 way down into 5 spreading segments, with intermediate 

 notches ; ultimately closed, coriaceous, permanent. Cor. 

 none. Filam. short, awl-shaped, erect, inserted into the 

 base of each segment of the calyx, in the centre. AntJi. 

 roundish. Germ, inferior, roundish, ribbed. Style cylindri- 

 cal, as long as the stamens. Stigma cloven. Drupa oblong, 

 angular, dry, coriaceous, crowned by the inflexed calyx. 

 Nut roundish. 



Mr. Brown describes a small tuft of hairs at the outside of 

 each stamen. 



Herbaceous, or shrubby, smooth, rigid, with scattered, nar- 

 row leaves. Fl. clustered, or panicled, bracteated, small, 

 whitish, or yellowish. 



1 . T. linophyllum. Flax-leaved Bastard-toadflax. 



Cluster branched. Bracteas three together. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate. Tube of the calyx very short. 



T.linophyllum. Linn. Sp. PL 301. Wittd-v. 1. 1211. Fl.Br.269. 

 Engl. Bot. v.4.t.247. Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 11.5. 



T. pratense. Ehrh. Herb. 12. 



Linaria montana, flosculis albicantibus. Bauh. Pin. 213. 



L. adulterina. Raii Syn. 202. 



Sesamoides procumbens nostras montanum, linariae folio, floribus 

 albicantibus. Moris, v. 3. 601. sect. 15. t. 1 ./. 3. 



In high open chalky pastures. 



In Cambridgeshire frequent - } also in Suffolk, on the west side of 

 Bury ; and in Dorsetshire. Found by the Rev. R. Forby, on 

 Limekiln hill, near Shouldham, Norfolk. 



Perennial. July. 



Root woody, yellowish. Stems widely spreading, angular, leafy, 

 a span or more in length. Leaves turned to one side, rough- 

 edged, light green, an inch long at most. Clusters terminal, 



