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purple, and with an orange palate. From Z. repens the 
present one differs in the yellow colour and larger size of its 
corolla, and by the longer spur. From L. vulgaris it may 
be distinguished by its smaller, paler, and striated flowers, 
and by the longer and narrower divisions of the calyx. The 
usually verticillate lower leaves of L. repens, and the fre- 
quently pubescent-glandular calyx of L. vulgaris, may assist ` 
in the distinction, but are neither of them invariable. From 
both species, the broader and more obtuse lower leaves wil ` 
give a distinctive character, if found constant; but the state 
of my specimens, as before explained, leaves this doubtful. 
L. Bauhini would seem to be a variable plant, the spec 
mens from the different localities having each a peculiar cha- 
racter. Those from Cornwall were distinguished by ps ` 
(almost white) and more striated flowers, with a straight — 
spur nearly the length of the corolla; and in their dry and |. 
colourless state they might readily pass for small-flowered — 
specimens of L. vulgaris. In the Shirley specimens, on the ` 
contrary, the flowers were more yellow in colour, with à 
shorter and somewhat curved spur from one-third to two ` 
thirds the length of the corolla; the plants in other respects ` 
approximating to L. repens more than to the common species — 
The Swiss specimens have the spur longer and incurved, and ` 
perhaps still deeper coloured flowers. Gaudin writes, “CO ` 
rolla saturate lutea, calcare incurvo, corollam æquante vel d 
superante.” The greater or less curvature in the spur may - 
be in part caused by unequal pressure in the process 9 ` 
drying. 
. lam not certain whether Linaria italica, (Trev. Act. Leo- 
pold.), of Koch's Synopsis Flore Germanice, be the same aS ` 
our English species. He refers to Gaudin's Antirrhinum — 
Bauhini, and also to Linaria genistifolia of De Candolle's 
Flore Francaise; but this latter author gives a reference t0 ` 
Ant. genistifolium of Linnaeus, and seems to have had that ` 
species in view in his description, while Koch makes it a dis- 
tinct species from his £L. italica. Both species (genistifolia E 
and italica or Bauhini), apparently include some strongly : 
