Figwort Family 357 



calyx ovate, 5-6 mm. long; corolla yellow, about 15 mm. broad; 

 filaments all bearded with violet woolly hairs; capsule subglo- 

 bose, about 6 nun. in diameter. 



Frequent along roadsides and in waste places, especially in the interior 

 valleys. San Gabriel; El Monte; Lordsburg; Pomona. May-August. 



2. LINARIA Juss. 



Herbs with alternate leaves or the lower opposite or 

 verticillate, and regular flowers in terminal bracted 

 racemes or spikes. Calyx 5-parted, the segments imbri- 

 cated. Corolla spurred at the base or the spur rarely 

 obsolete, 2-lipped, the upper lip erect, 2-lobed, the lower 

 spreading, 3-lobed, its base produced into a palate often 

 nearly closing the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 ascending, included ; filaments and style filiform. Cap- 

 sule ovoid or globose, opening by usually 3-toothed pores 

 or slits below the summit. Seeds numerous, rugose, 

 angled or sometimes winged. 



1. Li. Canadensis (L.) Dumont. (Wild Toad-flax.) Bien- 

 nial or annual, glabrous; flowering stem erect or ascending, very 

 slender, simple or branched, 2-7 dm. high, the sterile shoots 

 spreading or procumbent leafy; leaves linear or linear-oblong, 

 1-5 cm. long, entire, sessile ; flowers 6-8 mm. long in slender 

 long racemes ; pedicels 4-6 mm. long, erect and appressed in 

 fruit, minutely bracted at the base ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, about 

 equaling the capsule; spur of the corolla filiform, curved, as long 

 as the tube or longer; palate white, corolla otherwise blue. 



Occasional in cultivated fields, especially in sandy soil. 



3. ANTIRRHINUM L. Snap-dragon. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with alternate leaves or 

 the low T er opposite, and mostly rather large flowers in 

 terminal racemes or solitary in the upper axils. Calyx 

 5-parted. Corolla irregular gibbous or saccate at the 

 base, 2-lipped, the upper lip erect, 2-lobed, the lower 

 spreading, 3-lobed, its base produced into a palate nearly 



