DIDYNAMIA— ANGiOSPERMIA. Antlnlnnum. 131 



Linaiia. Tourn.t.76. Juss. 120. Desfont Allant.v. 2.37. Br. 

 in Alt. 11. Kew. ed. 2. r. 4. 10. 



Nat. Orel. PersonatiV. Linn. 40. Scrophularice. Juss. 40. 



Cal. in 5 deep, oblong, permanent segments ; the two lower 

 ones rather the most distant from each other. Cor. rin- 

 gent ; tube oblong ; either tumid, or elongated into a 

 spur of various lengths, at the base, which is the nectary ; 

 upper lip cloven, reflexed at the sides ; lower obtuse, 

 three-lobed, with an elevated palate, closing the mouth, 

 and hollow underneath. Filam. concealed under the 

 upper lip ; sometimes accompanied by a fifth abortive 

 stamen. Antli. convermng. Germ, roundish, or ovate. 

 Style thread-shaped, equal to the stamens. Stigma ob- 

 tuse. Caps, roundish, or oval, obtuse, of 2 cells, bursting 

 variously and irregularly at the summit. Seeds numerous, 

 roundish, or angular, or winged, attached to an oblong 

 cylindrical receptacle, in the middle of the partition. 



A numerous genus of annual or perennial herbs ; with round 

 stems; simple, mostly entire, narrow and smooth, leaves; 

 axillary or clustered, particoloured, chiefly blue or yellow, 

 Jlovcers, rarely whitish or I'eddish, the nectary ot which 

 is in some a shallow pouch, in others a spur, differing 

 greatly in length in cUfferent species. The capsule of 

 those whose nectary is a pouch only, ojiens with 3 pores 

 instead of 2, on which Mr. Brown founds a generic dis- 

 tinction for the original Antirrhimim of Tournefort. 

 But the opening of the capsule in the Linaria of these 

 authors is so variously valvular, or so irregularly jagged, 

 as to show that part to be indeterminate, or unfit to give 

 a charactei', in this genus ; the length of the spurs, be- 

 ing, moreover, but comparative. I therefore concur with 

 those who do not separate Linaria, there being no dis- 

 tinction of habit to depend upon, and the name, formed 

 out of Limmii being inadmissible. 



* Leaves dilated. Stemsjlaccid. 



*1. A. Cymbalaria. Ivy-leaved Snapdragon. 



Leaves heart-shaped, five-lobed, alternate, smooth. Stems 

 procumbent. 



A. Cymbalaria. Linn. Sp. PL 851. mild. v. 3. 232. Fl. Br. 656 

 Engl. Bot. V. 7. t. 502. Curt. Lomlfasc. 1. ^ 45. Hook. Scot. 

 188. Bull. Fr. t. 305. Fl. Dan. t. 1220. 



A. n. 339. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 146. 



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