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flowers. (Or AI. Barclay ana, with purple flowers. ' Both 

 introduced American species, commonly cultivated.) 



Observe the one-spurred corolla of Linaria, sometimes 

 becoming five-spurred and regular {Peioria), by the develop- 

 ment of a spur to each petal : the limb of the corolla, quin- 

 quepartite and nearly regular ( Verbascum), quadripartite 

 ( Veronica) ; bilabiate corolla and personate (Snapdragon, 

 Antirrhinnni); ringent {Pedicular is); the anthers with their 

 cells frequently divergent below, or actually separated by 

 the dilatation of the connective in several genera. 



Although this very large Family includes a great many 

 Indian species, I have selected as Type one which is not 

 native, but likely to be generally accessible in gardens, 

 because many of the native species are insignificant weeds 

 and difficult to identify, or else locally distributed. 



The Family approaches Solanaceae very nearly, but it may 

 generally be distinguished from that Order by the deficiency 

 of one or three stamens, the stamens thus becoming fewer 

 than the number of petals cohering to form the corolla. 

 When the fifth stamen is present, as in Verbascum^ characters 

 afforded by the aestivation of the corolla-lobes are made 

 use of technically to separate the Orders. The common 

 Mullein {Verbascnni Thapsus) occurs in waste places in 

 India. Several genera exhibit a partial parasitism, owing 

 to the roots attaching themselves to the roots of plants 

 amongst which they grow. Fediciilaris, of which a large 

 number of species occurs in the Himalaya, and RJmianthus 

 are examples of this condition, which unfits them for culti- 

 vation, although many of them bear very gay flowers. Aegi- 

 netia indica or Aeg. peduncidata may serve as a Sub-type, 

 representing the tribe of Broomrapes {OrobaJichacece). 

 They are scaly parasites, destitute of green leaves, with 

 large purplish flowers and spathe-like calyxes. The ovary 



