CLASS XIV. ORDER II.) LINARIA. 861 



Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 238.— Lindley, Synopsis, p. 

 191. — Antirrhinum spurium, Linn.— English Botany, t. 691.— English 

 Flora, vol. iii. p. 132. 



Root of branched fibres. Stems numerous, long, prostrate, much 

 branched and leafy, round, downy, slender. Xeaws roundish, ovate, 

 obtuse, with a minute point, downy, entire, or very rarely with one or 

 two notches, the footstalks short, slender, alternate, or the lower ones 

 sometimes opposite. Inflorescence solitary, axillary flowers, on slender 

 hairy pedicles^ about as long as the leaves. Calyx large, in five ovate 

 lanceolate downy segments. Corolla small, the upper lip short, 

 purple, deeply cleft, the lower reflexed, yellow, of three unequal 

 ovate lobes, the palate prominent, of two swollen deep orange coloured 

 downy protuberances. Stamens inclosed of unequal lengths beneath 

 the upper lip, and between the perfect stamens is an abortive one. 

 Capsule smooth, sub-globose, enclosed in the enlarged calyx. Seeds 

 numerous, ovate, brown, most beautifully reticulated over with pale 

 elevated lines. 



Habitat. — Corn fields, rare; Norfolk, Sufi'olk, and the South-east 

 coast of England. 



Annual ; flowering from July to September. 



A remarkable variety of ihis species is sometimes found having the 

 flowers in five regular clefts, five spurred, and in which ihe fifth 

 stamen is developed ; or in place of the whole five divisions being 

 developed, two or three of them only may be found so. 



3. L. Ela'tine, Desf. (Fig. 996.) sharp -pointed Fluellin, or Toad- 

 flax. Leaves hastate, acute, the lower ones ovate, entire, downy, 

 mostly alternate; stems prostrate; peduncles long, slender, smoolb; 

 spur of the flower subulate, straight. 



Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 238. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 

 191. —Antirrhinum Elatine, Linn. — English Botany, t. 692. — English 

 Flora, vol. iii. p. 133. 



Root small, fibrous. Stems numerous, long, prostrate, scarcely 

 branched, leafy, downy, slender. Leaves alternate, broadly halbert- 

 shaped, acute, the lobes lanceolate, downy, the petioles short, the lower 

 leaves roundish ovate, and mostly opposite. Inflorescence solitary 

 axillary flowers, on slender smooih pedicles, longer than the leaves. 

 Calyx in five ovate lanceolate downy segments. Corolla small, with a 

 pale greenish yellow tube, and straight awl-shaped spur, upper lip 

 short, erect, dark purple, two lobed, the lower reflexed, short, of three 

 unequal lobes, palate yellow, downy, of two prominent swollen pro- 

 tuberances. Stamens four, with an abortive one between the two 

 upper ones. Capsules sub-globose, smooth, enveloped in the persistent 

 enlarged calyx. Seeds numerous, ovale, brown, beautifully reticulated 

 with pale elevated lines like those of the last species. 



Habitat.— Covn fields, especially in a dry soil ; frequent in England 

 and Ireland. 



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