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cause there are two indifferent Swiss specimens in Smith’s 
herbarium, sent by Mr. Duval as undoubtedly Haller’s, No. 
337, (which is referred to by Gaudin,) and which correspond 
as closely with the English specimens, as the latter do with 
each other. One of the Swiss specimens is wild, the other a 
garden one of the same plant. The Cornish specimens 
closely resemble the latter, while the Shirley specimens agree 
nearly with the wild Swiss ones. Gaudin adds also the 
synonym of “ Ant. genistifolium, (non L.) Sut. Fl. Helv. 
2, p. 34.” 
From the Antirrhinum genistifolium of the Linnean her- 
barium, which is well figured in the Botanical Magazine, No. 
2183, both Swiss and English specimens widely differ. In- 
dependently of other points, the leaves of A. genistifolium 
(L.) are comparatively very broad at the base, and taper up- 
wards into an acuminated point, while in my English speci- 
mens the form of the leaf is linear-lanceolate, with a narrow 
insertion on the stem, and without the long acuminated point. 
But the English botanist will rather require characters of 
distinction between this novel Linaria and his old acquaint- 
ances L. repens and L. vulgaris; and though characters 
cannot be given so satisfactorily as might be wished, from 
my few and imperfect specimens, the following description 
may suffice :— 
Stem diffuse branched, leaves scattered linear-lanceolate 
(ovate-lanceolate near the base of the stem?), flowers racemose, 
divisions of the calyx oblong-lanceolate nearly equalling the 
capsule, spur straight or slightly curved more than one-third 
the length of the corolla. In hedges. Perennial. Flowering in 
August and September. 
The leaves have a purplish-glaucous tint like those of £. 
repens, are small and narrow in the Shirley specimens, larger 
ànd more lanceolate in those from Penryn, but with respect 
to the * ovate.lanceolate" lower leaves, I write only from 
recollection of the Irish specimen, on which they are broader 
and more obtuse than any that I have seen on specimens of 
L. repens or L, vulgaris. Flowers pale yellow, striated with 
