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

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

 paler colours. They have moreover an abortive s/r/me^, and are 

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

 Seeds much wrinkled. 



** Leaves ?iar rower. Stems upright. 

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



Leaves linear, glaucous, scattered ; partly whorled. Stem 

 panicled. Calyx smooth, the length of the spur. 



A. repens. L/«?i. % P?. 854. ^i/W.y.3.240. FLBr.GnS. Engl. 



Bot. V. \S.t.\ 253. Hook. Scot, 1 88. D'cks. Dr. PL 75. H. Sice. 



fasc. 17.18. 

 A. monspessulanum. Linn. Sp. PI. 854. ff'illd.v.3.240. With. 550. 

 Linaria odorata Monspessulana. Rail Syn.* 282. Bauh. Hist. 



V. 3. p. 2. 459./. 

 L. CcErulea, foliis brevioribus et angustioribus. Rail Syn. *282. 

 L. angustifolia, flore cinereo striato. Dill. Elth. 198. t. \G3.f. 197. 

 L. minor repens etinodora. failLPar. 1 18. 

 L. repens. Jit. H. Kew. ed. 2. i\4. 13. 

 Biueish Sweet Toadflax. Pet. H. Brit. t. 35. f. 0. 



On chalky banks, or on rocks near the sea, but rare. 



Near Penryn, Cornwall. Ray. F. Borone. Abundantly by the road- 

 side between Llandovery and Trecastle, South Wales. Rev. T. 

 Butt. In an old slate quarry, near Bandon, County of Cork. 

 Mr. J. T. Mackay. On the chalk hill going down to Henley- 

 u))on-Thamcs, where ii was observed in the time of Dillenius, 

 ])lentifully. 



Perennial. July — Sej)teniber. 



Root whitish, creeping extensively. Herb smooth and glaucous. 

 .Stems numerous, erect, round, branched and ])anicled, leafy. 

 Leaves linear, or somewhat lanceolate, entire, an inch long, or 

 more, erect, often 4 or 5 in a whorl, but as frequently oi)po.sitc, 

 or scattered ; the ui)per ones mostly alternate. Fl. numerous, 

 in ]janicle(l upright clusters^ with a small leafy bravtea under 

 each partial stalk. They are certainly sweet-scented, as Vaillant 

 asserts, though he uses the definition of Tournefort, which savs 

 otherwise. Cat. with smooth lanceolate segments. Spur coni- 

 cal, very pale grey, as well as the lower Up; palate yellow; 

 u})pcrlip and tube striped with blue. Caps, globose, opening by 

 several lanceolate equal valves. Sveds angular, rugged, black. 



A. monspessulanum and A. repens of Linnaeus being the very same 

 plant, the latter name is retained as by far the most eligible ; 

 nor can I perceive how any doubt could arise respecting John 

 Bauhin's synonym, nor how Hay came to describe so distinct a 

 species twice over, Linnieus wits led into the same error by 

 him and Dilleniub , and the latter, by saying he had gathered 



