SCROPHULARIACE 77 
lowing :—V. montanum, Schreb.; resembling 7hapsus, 
but flowers larger, filaments of all the stamens woolly, 
leaves not so strongly decurrent; hilly woods. V. ¢hap- 
siforme, Schrad.; resembling 7hapsus, but flowers much j 
larger (1} in.), leaves more distinctly crenate and acumi- 
nate; Switzerland, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. V. phlomozdes, 
L.; similar, but leaves not so strongly decurrent, tomen- 
tum yellow; rare. 
2. LINARIA: L. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, or in racemes; corolla per- 
sonate with a spurred tube; stamens 4; stigma notched 
or 2-lobed; capsule of two nearly equal cells, dehiscing 
by pores; lower leaves sometimes opposite or in whorls. 
Nearly all the species of Toadflax are lowland plants. 
A. Flowers yellow, in racemes:—JL. vulgaris, Mill; 
our common English Yellow Toadflax; hedge-banks, 
common (flowers sometimes regular, with 5 spurs and 
5 stamens, var. Peloria). V. ttalica, Trev.; flowers 
smaller and paler, axis of raceme and flower- stalks 
glabrous; mountain valleys; Southern Switzerland, 
Styria, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. JL. supzna, Desf. (including 
pyrenaica, DC.); racemes short, stem glandular-pubes- 
cent, leaves linear, somewhat fleshy, the lower often 
in whorls, annual; sub-alpine; Piedmont, Dauphiny, 
Pyrenees. JL. szmplex, DC.; flowers very small, in short 
terminal racemes, leaves linear; Pyrenees. 
£. Flowers purple or violet, in racemes :—JL. alpina, 
Mill (Pl. 90); stem glabrous, somewhat prostrate, flowers 
in a loose raceme, violet with yellow throat, leaves 
linear, somewhat fleshy, in whorls of 4; high, fre- 
quent. V. arvensis, Desf.; annual, flowers very small, 
