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that it came very near Linaria genistifolia. Profiting by 
this hint, I proceeded to examine books and herbaria; and 
though my impression now is, that the plant is distinct from 
the Antirrhinum genistifolium of Linnzus, there seems no 
doubt that it is a species (or variety of another species) 
which has by some authors been united with A. genistifolium 
Linn. 
I have thus explained the slow progress made towards er 
certaining the plant, before the perfect and well dried speci- 
men from Mr. Hincks was seen, by way of memorandum S 
young botanists, that they ought to collect full length speci- 
mens whenever practicable, preserve their colours in drying; 
and not pass over doubtful plants until well ascertained. The 
last suggestion will perhaps be more strongly enforced by an 
intimation that an imperfect specimen of this Linaria exists 
in the herbarium of Sir J. E. Smith, with a note that it was 
gathered by Mr. Lambert, near Southampton, in 1798 
Smith had probably been puzzled by the specimen, to which ` 
he had attached in pencil the query, * L. vulgaris ? J. E. S5 
Yet, if I am correct in the name here given to it, his herba- 
rium has authentic specimens from Switzerland which might 
bave enabled him to determine the species. 
After being thus found in three such distant counties 4 
Cork, Cornwall and Hants, and keeping its ground in the same 
or neighbouring localities, (Shirley 1840, and Southampton 
1798,) for so many years, there can be little doubt as to the 
propriety of admitting the plant into the British Flora, in ` 
the character of a native, and one that will likely enough be 
found in other places, when brought under the attention of : 
some of our excellent botanical hunters of the present day. - 
But under what name is it to gain admittance? The choice - 
seems to lie between calling it a hybrid variety of L. repens 
and L. vulgaris, as first occurred both to Mr. Hincks and to 
myself, or to regard it as a distinct species identical with - 
Antirrhinum Bauhini, of Gaudin. That it is the species ot | 
Gaudin, I entertain no doubt, not only because his descrip- : 
tion nearly agrees with the English specimens, but also be- , 
