DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 143 



little exceeding a foot or two in length, and are foure square, 

 greene, somewhat hairie, and trailing on the ground : the leaves are 

 like to those oi Medica pericarpio piano, not fully so sharpe pointed, 

 without blacke spots, soft, hairy, three on a foot-stalke : the flowers 

 grow alongst the branches, on very small foot-stalkes, forth of the 

 bosomes of the leaves, (not altogether on or neere the tops of the 

 branches) and are very small and yellow, but one on a foot-stalke : 

 after commeth small round writhed fruit, no bigger than a pease, 

 with very short sharpe prickles, wherein is contained yellowish seed 

 of the fashion of a kidney like the former, and is the hardest to be 

 plucked forth of any of the rest : the root is also whitish like the 

 roots of the other, and also perisheth at Winter. — MS. f. 104; Ger. 

 emac. 1200. 



Linaria tJiymifolia DC. ? 

 Antirrhinum minus flore Linariae luteum inscriptum. 3 Augusti 1621 



This hath at the first many very small, round, smooth branches 

 from one root, trayling on the ground, about foure or five inches long, 

 set with many small greene short sharp pointed leaves, like those of 

 Serpilhini, but that these are longer, smooth, and three or foure 

 growing opposite one against another : amongst which rise uf) five 

 or six, sometimes ten or twelve upright round smooth little stalks 

 a cubit high, divided into branches bearing small long smooth 

 greene leaves, growing without order, as narrow as the upper leaves 

 of Oenanthe Angitstifolia : at the toppes of the stalks and branches 

 grow clustering together five six or more small yellow flowers, 

 flowering upwards, leaving a long spike of very small huskes, each 

 huske having a small line or chinke as though two huskes were 

 ioined together, the one side of the huske being a little longer than 

 the other, wherein is contained exceeding small blackish seed. The 

 root is very short, small, and white, with a few threds, and perisheth 

 at winter. 



II This plant is not written of that I can finde. I received seed 

 thereof from M"". William Coys often remembred. — MS. f. 103 ; 

 Ger. emac. 1626. 



Linaria serpyllifolia Lange? 

 Linaria minor aestiva. 3 Augusti lOzi 



The stalkes are round, smooth, of a whitish greene colour, a foot 

 high, weake, not able to stand upright : whereon grow long narrow 

 sharpe pointed leaves, most commonly bending or turning downe- 

 wards. The flowers grow in spikes at the toppes of the branches, 

 yet not very neere together, and are verie small and yellow, with 



