DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Antinhiiium. ]33 



with a recurved spur, the length of its tube, and of the same 

 pale greenish hue; upper lip short, violet; lower yellow, with 

 an orange palate. Abortive stamen minute, shapeless, in the 

 arch of the upper lip. Dillenius, after Rivinus, very rightly ob- 

 serves that the copmle opens by an oblique deciduous segment 

 over each cell, by which they characterize their genus Elaline ; 

 but which is only one of those slight differences, that confirm a 

 too much neglected maxim of Linneeus, " there are few genera 

 in which some part or other of the fructification is not subject to 

 aberration." 

 I have specimens, found by the late Sir John Cullum, having some 

 regular^ott-ers with 5 spurs, and others partly so, with only 2. 

 Sometimes, Hudson says, there are 3 or 4. See A. Linaria here- 

 after. 



3. A. Elathie. Sharp-pointed Fluellin, or Snapdragon. 



Leaves chiefly halberd-shaped, akernate ; lowermost ovate, 



opposite. Stems procumbent, hairy. 

 A. Elatine. Linn. Sp. PL 851. JVilUl. v. 3. 234. Fl. Dr. 6.")8. 



Engl. Bot. V. 10. t. 692. Curt. Lond.fasc. ].t. 46. Fl. Dan. 



t. 426. Ehrh. Herb. 128. 

 A. n. 340. Hull. Hist. v. 1. 146. 



Linaria Elatine dicta^ folio acuminate. Raii Stjn. *282. 

 L. Elatine. Ait. H. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. 1 1 . 

 Elatine. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 360./. Cumer. Epit. 754./. 

 E. altera. Ger. Em. 625. f. 

 E. foemina, folio anguloso. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 372. f. 



In corn-fields after harvest, on a gravelly or chalky soil. 



Annual. July — September. 



Like the last in general habit and characters, except being more 

 slender, with halberd-sliaped, usually smaller, leaves. The 

 /lowers also are smaller and less conspicuous, with similar but 

 paler colours. They have moreover an abortive stamen, and are 

 occasionally regularly five-cleft. The capsule is like the last. 

 Seeds much wrinkled. 



* * Leaves narroisoer. Stems upright. 



4. A. rcpcns. Creeping Pale-blue Toadflax. 



Leaves linear, glaucous, scattered ; partly whorled. Stem 

 panicled. Calyx smooth, the length of the spur. 



A. repens. Linn. Sp. Pl.854. Willd. v. 3. 240. Fl. Br. 658. Engl. 



Bot. V. 18. t. 1253. Hook. Scot. 188. Dicks. Dr. PI. 75. H. Sice, 

 fasc. 17. 18. 

 A. monspessulanum, Linn. Sp. PI. 854. Willd.v.3. 240. TVith. 550. 

 Linaria odorata Monspessulana, Raii Syn. *282. Bauh. Hist. 



v.o.p. 2.45D./ 



