136 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Antirrhinum. 



stalks, small and inconspicuous; the tube, upper lip, and very 

 short spur purplish ; lower Up white, with a yellow palate. Caps. 

 ovate, oblique, each cell opening by 3 or 4 short blunt teeth. 

 Seeds ovate, strongly furrowed, with compressed, prominent^, 

 intermediate ribs. 

 The wooden cuts of this species, in the old authors, greatly excel 

 the engraving of Rivinus, which is not accurate in the flowers. 



*** Corolla ^without a 'prominent spur. 



* 7. A. majus. Great Snapdragon. 



Corolla with a rounded prominence at the base. Flowers 

 in. a dense cluster. Leaves lanceolate. Segments of the 

 calyx ovate, obtuse, 



A. majus. Linn. Sp. PL 859. WUld. v. 3. 256. Fl. Br. 661 . Engl. 

 Bot. V. 2. t. 129. Hook, f^cot. 189. Bull. Fr. t. 277. 



A. n.333. Hall. Hist. V. I. 144. 



Antirrhinum. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 82./. 1. Dod. Pempl. 182./. Lob. 

 Ic. 404./. 



A. purpureum sive album. Ger. Em. 540. f. 



A. primum et secundum. Matth. Valgr.v.2. 537 , 538./,/' Ca- 

 mer.Epit. 920, 92\./,/. 



On old walls, and chalk cliff's, but supposed not to be indigenous. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Stem branched, leafy, more or less downy and viscid, of a shrubby 

 habit, but generally destroyed by the winter's cold, as is often 

 the root itself. Leaves opposite or alternate on the same plant, 

 somewhat stalked, lanceolate, acute, recurved, entire, smooth ; 

 dark green on the upper side; paler beneath. Ft. large and 

 showy, rose-coloured or white, with a large, yellow, downy pa- 

 late white in front. They form dense clusters, beset with ovate 

 bracfeas. Cal. downy and viscid, in 5 ovate, concave, unequal 

 segments. Cor. near 1^ inch long, with a short round pouch 

 at the base on the lower side. Caps, ovate, of 2 oblique cells; 

 the lowermost, or larger, protuberant at the base, opening at 

 the top by 2 large pores, each bordered with 3 broad, short, 

 spreading valves ; the upper cell with a single orifice, crowned 

 with a three-cleft valve. Seeds black, much wrinkled. The 

 whole capsule has been compared to the skull of a calf; but the 

 old name, Calf's-snout, rather applies to the mouth of the co- 

 rolla. A fine deep crimson variety is common in gardens, and 

 another with a white tube and crimson lips, but these run into 

 each other on the same root. 



A rude figure of this Antirrhinum, but which cannot be mistaken, 

 exists in the famous Vienna manuscript of Dioscorides, under 

 the name of KuvoKe<pd\ioy, or Dog's-head, and is engraved in 

 Diosc. Ic, t, 103. 



