132 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Antinlnnuni. 



Linaria hederaceo folio glabro, sen Cyml)alarla vulgaris. Tourn. 

 Inst. 169. Dill, in liaii Syn. *282. 



L. Cymbalaria. Jit. H. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. 10. 



Cymbalaria. Matth. r(tlgr.v.2.468.f. Camer. Epii. 860./. Kiv. 

 Monop. Irr. t. 86./. 2. Bank. Pin. 306. 



C. italica. Ger. Em. 529. f. Lob. Ic. 6\5.f. 



Umbilicus Veneris Officinarum. Lonic. Kreuterb. 9.5./. 1. 



On old walls, having been introduced from Italy. 



On walls bordering the Thames, having escaped, as Dillenius 

 thought, from Chelsea garden. It is become no less common 

 about O.xford and Cambridge, and within a few years at Nor- 

 wich. 



Perennial. May — November. 



Root fibrous. Steins trailing or pendulous, very much branched, 

 round, smooth, leafy, hanging from old walls in rich, dense, 

 flowery festoons. Leaves alternate, stalked, ivy-like, of a deep 

 shining green, often tinged with violet, and, like every other part 

 of the plant, quite smooth. Ft. solitary, on long axillary stalks, 

 not large, but very elegant, variegated with violet and blue j their 

 palate yellow ; spur short, though pointed. Caps, roundish, much 

 and irregularly torn at the top, to let out the black wrinkled seeds. 



2. A. spurnim. Round-leaved Fluellin, or Snapdragon. 



Leaves ovate, downy, chiefly alternate. Stems procum- 

 bent, hairy. 



A. spurium. Linn. Sp. PL 851. IVilld. v. 3. 235. H. Br. 6o7. 



Engl. Bot. V. 10. t.69\. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. /. 37. Fl. Dan. 



t. 913. 

 A. Elatine. Bull Fr. t. 245. 

 A. n.341. Halt. Hist. v. 1. 147. 



Linaria Elatine dicta, folio subrotundo. Rail Syn. *282. 

 L. spuria. Jit. H. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. 11. 

 Elatine. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 86./. 1. DHL Gen. WG.t. 6. 

 Veronica foemina. Fuchs. Hist. 167. f. Ger. Em. 625. f. Matth. 



Valgr. V. 2. 55. f. Camer. Epit. 462. f. ' 



In corn-fields, but rare. 



About London rare. Curtis. Frequent in Suffolk. Mr. fFoodward. 

 Hampshire. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. At Seething, Norfolk. Mrs. 

 Kett. At Binham. Mr. Cyouje. In Shepey island. Mr.Sowerby, 

 In Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Mr. Purton. 



Annual. July — September. 



The whole herb is downy, or finely hairy. Root fibrous, small. 

 Stems spreading and procumbent, branched, leafy. Leaves on 

 short stalks, ovate, either blunt or acute, entire, except an oc- 

 casional notch or two, mostly alternate, a few of the lowermost 

 only being opposite. Fl. on slender, simple, axillary stalks. Cat. 

 with ovate segments, enlarged after flowering, downy. Ccfr, 



