1S2 DIDYNAMIA- ANGIOSPERMIA. Antirrhinum. 



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

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

 Elatine. Riv. Monop. Irr. t.86.f.\. DHL Gen. 116. t. 6. 

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

 Falgr. V. 2. bb.f. Camer. Epit. 462./. 



In corn-fields, but rare. 



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

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

 Mrs. Rett. At Binham. Mr. Crowe. In Shepey island. Mr. 

 Sowerby. In Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Mr. Piirton, 



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. FI. on slender, simple, axillary stalks. Cal. 

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

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

 pale greenish hue • upper lip short, violet ; lovver 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 capsule opens by an oblique deciduous segment 

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

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

 too much neglected maxim of Linnaeus, " 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 flowers with 5 spurs, and others partly so, with only 2. 

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

 after. 



3. A. Elatine. Sharp-pointed FUiellin, or Snapdragon. 



Leaves chiefly halberd-shaped, alternate ; lowermost ovate, 

 opposite. Stems procumbent, hairy. 



A. Elatine. Linn. Sp. Pl.SJ). Willd. v.3.234. Fl.Br.658. 



Engl. Bot. V. 1 0. t. 692. Curt. Lond.fasc. \.t.46. Fl. Dan. 



t.426. Ehrh.Herh. 128. 

 A.n. 340. Hall. Hist. v.\.\46. 



Linaria Elatine dicta, folio acuminato. Raii Syn. *282. 

 L. Elatine. Ait. H. Kew. ed. 2 . -y. 4. 1 1 . 

 Elatine. Motth. Valgr.v.2.?,60.f. Camer. Epit. 754. f. 

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

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



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



Annual. July — September. 



Like the' last in general habit and charactere, except being more 



