ISO DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Antirrhinum. 



ed J radical ones ovate, undivided, crenate, recurved. Fl. of a 

 more uniform rose-colour than the last ; the lobes of their lower 

 lip not fringed, Cal. more oblong and tubular, with 4 larger 

 angles, and as many intermediate smaller ones ; the margin un- 

 equally cut into 5 notched segments. Unquestionably a most 

 distinct species, though Willdenow expresses some doubts on 

 the subject. 

 The Marquis of Stafford found one regular salver-shaped Jlower, 

 with 6 segments, and as many stamens, 4 of them long, and 2 

 short, on a wild specimen, near his castle of Dunrobin in Su- 

 therland, North Britain, in 1808. See Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 10. 

 227. Dr. Hooker and Mr. Borrer met with a similar flower, in 

 the same neighbourhood, the following season. 



309. ANTIRRHINUM. Toadflax, or Snap- 

 dragon. 



Linn. Gen. 309. Juss. 120. Fl. Br. 656. Tourn. t, 7b. Lam. t. 531. 



G(Ertn. t.bZ. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 144. 

 Linaria. Tourn. t. 76. Juss.\20. Desfont.Atlant.v.2.37. Br. 



in Ait. H. Kew. ed. 2. u. 4. 10. 



Nat. Ord. Personated. Linn. 40. Scrophularice, Juss. 40. 



Cdl. 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. Anth. converging. Germ, roundish, or ovate. 

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

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

 variousl^fc 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, 

 flowers^ rarely whitish or reddish, the nectary of which 

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

 greatly in length in different species. The capsule of 

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

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

 tinction for the original Antirrhinum of Tournefort. 

 But the opening of the capsule in the Linaria of these 



