PENTANDRIA-MONOGVNIA. Thesium. 337 



Perennial. June, July. 



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

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



^o tt?; 'r'""^ 'rf f/ ^'""«^'\^^"^-^^> P^-^le underneath, saltish 

 nnnl P .,f '^^^'«^,^-^^ Very short, or scarcely any. StijMa, 

 none. Fl. axillary, solitar>', nearly sessile, flesh-coloured. 



126. THESIUAi. Bastard-toadflax. 

 Linn.Gen.WA. Juss. 7.'). FL Br.269. Lam. t. 142. Ga>rtn.f.S6. 

 Nat. Ord Veprecul^. Linn. 31. El,eagm. Juss. 75. Sa?Ua- 

 lacece. Br. Pr. 350. 



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

 way down into 5 spreading segments, with intermediate 

 notches ; ultnnately closed, coriaceous, permanent Co?- 

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

 base ot each segment of the calyx, in the centre. Anf/i 

 roimdish. Germ, inferior, roundish, ribbed. Sfyle cylindri- 

 cal, as long as the stamens. Slig7na cloyen. Drupa oblono- 

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

 JSiit roundish. 



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

 each stamen. 



Herbaceous, or shrubby, smooth, rigid, witli 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.30\. IVilld. r. 1. 1211. R 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 Sf/n. 202. 



Sesamoides procumbens nostras montanum, linariee folio, fioribus 

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



In high open chalky pastures. 



In Cambridgeshire frequent j also in Sufiblk, on the west side of 

 Bury ; and in Dorsetshire. Found, by the Rev. 11. Forby, on 

 Limekiln hill, near Shouldham, Norfolk'. 



Perennial. Jul?/. 



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. Clnslrrs terminal. 



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