136 DIDYNAMIA—ANGIOSPERMIA. Antirrhinum. 



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

 dark green on the upper side 3 paler beneath. Fl. large and 

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

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

 bracteas. Cat. downy and viscid, in 5 ovate, concave, unequal 

 segments. Cor. near H 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, spread- 

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

 three-cleft valve. Seeds hhck, much wrinkled. The whole cap- 

 sule has been compared to the skull of a calf 3 but the old name, 

 Calf's-snout, rather applies to the mouth of the corolla. 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 Kuvox£^aA*oy, or Dog's-head, and is engTaved in Diosc. 

 Ic. t. 103. 



8. A. Orontium, Lesser Snapdragon. 



Corolla scarcely tumid at the base. Flowers loosely spiked. 

 Calyx finger-shaped, longer than the corolla. 



A. Orontium. Linn. Sp. PL 860. inilcl v. 3. 258. Fl. Br. 662. 



Engl. Bot. V. 1 7. ^. 1 155. Curt. Lond.fasc.A. t. 45. 

 A.n.334. Hall.Hist.v.\.\AA. 

 A. angustifolium sylvestre. Rail Syn. * 283. Bauh.Hist.v.3.p.2. 



464./. 

 A. minus. Ger.Em.D49.f. 

 A. minimum. Lob. Ic. 405./. 

 A. arvense. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 82./. 2. 

 A. quartum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 540./ Camer. Epit. 923. f. 



In dry sandy, gravelly, or chalky, fields. 



Annual. July, August. 



Whole herb slightly hairy, more or less branched, about a foot 

 high, with a wavy leafy stem. Leaves lanceolate, somewhat 

 stalked, alternate, except a few of the lowermost. Fl. axillary, 

 nearly sessile, composing loose leafy spikes. Cal. in 5 deep li- 

 near segments, just equal in length to the opening corolla, but 

 soon extended much beyond it. Cor. of a purplish rose-colour, 

 with a yellow palate ; the tube occasionally var^ang to white. 

 Caps, ovate, with 3 pores, each opening by a lid. When nearly 

 ripe it resembles the face of a Monkey, or Bat. Seeds bordered 

 and furrowed. 



