LINAEIA 365 



LINARIA, Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 7 (1762) (Tournefort, Inst. t. 76^ 



li. Cymbalaria, Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 8, n. 17 (1768). Oxford Weed, 

 Ivy-leaved Toad-flax. 

 Cymbalaria, Matth. Antirrhinum Cymbalaria, Linn. Sp. PI. 612 (1753). 

 Comp. Cyb. Br. 541. Syme, E. B. vi. 133, t. 955. Nyman, 543. Baxt. 35. 



n. Oxf. 216. 

 Denizen. Eupestral. Old walls, brickwork of eanal-sides and river- 

 locks, &e. Common and widely distributed. P. April-Nov. 

 First record. Antirrhinum Cymbalaria. On old walls about the shores of 

 the Thames as well as at Oxford, E. B. n. 502, 1790. On the 

 walls of Windsor Castle, Rev. Br. Goodenough, Sm. Fl. Brit. 1800. 

 On the ruins of Park Place, Br. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 L. Cymbalaria occurs plentifully in all the districts, and is still 

 growing on the walls of Windsor Castle. It is an ornament to some 

 of the river-locks. Occasionally the flowers are white with a yellow 

 palate. 



' From Oxford to Teddington we are continually meeting with the 

 flowery festoons of this pretty plant wherever old stone work is found 

 in proximity to the water,' Hall's Book of the Thames, 133. 

 L. Cymbalaria is found in all the bordering counties. 



L. Cymbalaria is the plant whose structure and relations Linnaeus, during 

 the interview he had with Dillenius in the Oxford Botanic Garden, explained 

 in so clear a manner as to remove the prejudice against him, and to constrain 

 Dillenius to admit that Linnaeus was not the man to bring Botany into con- 

 fusion. 



Ii. spuria, Miller, 1. c., n. 15 (1768). Fluellin. 



Elatine folio subrotundo, C. B. Pin. 252. Antirrhinum spurium, Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 613. Veronica foemina, Matth. F. foemina Fuchsii sive Elatine, 

 Gerard, 501. 



Top. Bot. 295. Syme, E. B. vi. 135, t. 957. Nyman, 543. Fl. Oxf. 215. 



Native. Agrestal. Arable fields, chiefly on light soils. Local. A. 

 June-December. 



First record. The female veronica growes amongst corn almost every- 

 where, MS. note in Lyte's Herball, 1660. (The accompanj'ing de- 

 scription suggests that this plant is meant.) Definitely recorded 

 from Merley in Mr. Baxter's MS. of 1812, and published by Mr. 

 T. B. Flower in Robertson's Env. of Reading, 1843. 



1. Isis. Merley, Baxter, 1812. Carswell, Miss M. Niven. Appleton. 



Cumnor. 



2. Ock. Between Hen Wood and Ferry Hinksey. Boar's Hill, 



with a peloria form. Sister Jane Frances. Chilt> n, Hewett's Hist. 

 Marcham, Walker. Between Kingston and Charney. Dench- 

 worth, Wait. Chawley. Near Cumnor Hurst. Eadley. Pusey. 

 Wantage. South Hinksey. 



