ORD. XX. Personate. 371 
- ANTIRRHINUM LINARIA. COMMON TOAD-FLAX. 
SYNONYMA.  Linaria. Pharm. Geoff: tii. 730. Dale. 193. 
Rutty. 289. Bergius. 545. Murray. ii. 183. Lewis. 395. Ed. 
New. Dispens. 222. Linaria vulgaris lutea, flore majore. Bauh. 
Pin, 212. Linaria lutea vulgaris. Gerard. Emac. 550. L. vul- 
garis nostras. Park. 458. . Raii. Hist. 752.  Synop. 281. An- 
tirrhinum Linaria. Huds. Ang. 238. Withering. Bot. Arr. 648. 
Curt. Flor. Lond. i. 5. i 
Didynamia Angiospermia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 750. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. basis deorsum prominens, nec- 
tarifera. Caps. 2-locularis. 
Sp. Ch. A. foliis lanceolato-linearibus confertis, caule erecto, spicis 
terminalibus sessilibus, floribus imbricatis. 
ROOT perennial, woody, crooked, creeping, white, fibrous. 
Stalks round, erect, simple, tapering, smooth, from one to two feet 
in height. Leaves nearly linear, pointed, smooth, entire, thickly 
scattered over the stalk. Flowers large, yellow, and partly orange, 
crouded over each other in a terminal spike. Calyx divided into 
five small oval segments, of which the uppermost is the largest. 
Corolla monopetalous, bilabiated, or ringent, yellow, consisting of 
a short tube, and a limb composed of two lips; upper lip bifid, 
having its segments bending down, afterwards turned back, and 
closing together ; lower lip divided into three segments, of which 
that in the middle is the least; the mouth is closed by a palate, 
which is bifid, prominent, villous at the hottom,.and of a saffron 
‘colour. Filaments four, white, two long and two short, glandular 
at the base: antherz yellow, bifid, joined in pairs. Germen round. 
Style filiform. Stigma clubbed. Capsule of a cylindrical form, 
opening by several divisions at the top, divided into two ceils, con- 
taining numerous black irregularly shaped seeds, 
