DIDYXAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Ai.tinliinum. l.'il 



authors is so variously valvular, or so irregularly jaggeJ, 

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

 a character, 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 Linum, being inadmissible. 



* Leaves dilated. Stems Jlaccid. 



*1. A. Cymhalar'ia, Ivy-leaved Snapdragon. 



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

 procumbent. 



A. Cymbalaria. Linn. Sp. PL 85 1 . M'illd. v 3. 232. Fl. Br. C)')6. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 7. t. 502. Curt. Land. fasc. 1 . f. 45. Hook. Scot. 

 188. BuU.Fr.t.305. FL Dan. t. \220. 



A. n.339. Hall. Hist. V. \.\46. 



Linaria hederaceo folio glabro, seu Cvmbalaria vulgaris. Tourn. 

 Inst. 169. Dm. in Raii Syn. *282. ' 



L. Cymbalaria. Alt. H. Keiv. ed. 2. v. 4. 10. 



Cymbalaria. Matth Falgr. v.2. 4(i8.f. Corner. Epif. 860./. Riv. 

 Monop. Irr. t. S6.f. 2. Bauh. Pin. 306. 



C. italica. Ger.Eni.320.f. Lob. Ic. 615 f. 



Umbilicus \'eneris Officinarum. Lonic. Krenterh. 95./. 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 Oxford and Cambridge, and within a iiiw years at Nor- 

 wich. 'B-ri^y^'^' 



Perennial. Mmj — yovemher. 



Root fibrous. Stems trailing or |)endulo\is, 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, (piite smooth. Fl. solitary, on longuxillary stalks, 

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

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

 and irregularly torn iit tin- toj),to let out the black wrinkled .vee^Av. 



2. K spuriu?n. Round-leaved Fliielliii, or Snapdragon. 



Leaves ovate, downy, chiefly alternate. Stems procum- 

 bent, hairy. 



A. spurium. Lmn. Sp. PI S5 I . If'ilM v. 3. 23.i. Ft. Br 657. 



Fngl. Bot. V. 10. f. 691. Curt. Loud. f'asc.'S. t.'S7. Fl.Dan. 



^913. 

 A. Elatine. Bull. F. t.2\h. 

 A. n. 3 11. Hall, list r. I. 117. 



