862 LINARIA. LcLASS XIV. order ii. 



Annual ; flowering from July to September. 



The flowers of this species, like the last, are sometimes found in five 

 equal parts, with five spurs, and the abortive stamen developed. It is 

 a much more frequent plant than the last, and is readily distinguished 

 by the halbert-shaped leaves, the slender smooth pedicles, and the 

 straight spur of the corolla. 



** Stem erects leaves narrow^ linear or lanceolate. 

 . 4. L. re'pens, Ait. (Fig. 997.) creeping pale blue Toadflax. Whole 

 plant smooth ; stem erect, panicled ; leaves linear lanceolate, the 

 lower whorled, the upper scattered ; racemes lax ; calyx with lanceo- 

 late acute segments, shorter than the capsule; spur short, obtuse; 

 corolla striated ; seeds triangular, ovate, rough, and pitted. 



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

 191. — Antirrhinum repensy Linn.— English Botany, t. 1253. — English 

 Flora, vol. iii. p. 133. — Linaria striata, De Cand. 



Root of long twisted stout branches, putting up now and then 

 flowering branches. Stems mostly several, round, smooth, from one 

 to two feet high, erect, leafy, branched in a paniculated manner above. 

 Leaves linear lanceolate, pale, somewhat glaucous green, quite smooth, 

 paler beneath, with a mid-rib, and sometimes obscurely two lateral 

 veins, the lower ones somewhat petiolated, and in whorls of about four 

 each, the upper more or less irregularly scattered. Inflorescence pani- 

 culated racemes of numerous flowers. Bracteas awl-shaped, shorter 

 than the erect slender pedicles^ smooth, as well as the oblong acute 

 segments of the calyx. Corolla a pale blue, striated with purple, the 

 tube broad, somewhat dilated upwards, the spur short, conical, obtuse, 

 yellowish, as well as the reflexed three lobed under lip, the upper erect, 

 deeply two lobed, the palate of two large swollen protuberances. 

 Stamens arising from the base of the tube. Filaments awl-shaped. 

 Capsule smooth, globose, enveloped by the persistent calyx, and 

 crowned by the withered style. Seeds not very numerous, triangular, 

 ovate, rough, with reticulated lines, and pitted. 



Habitat. — Stony banks and rocks near the sea, rare ; in the South of 

 England and Ireland ; near Cobzean, Ayrshire, and near Musselburgh, 

 Scotland. 



Perennial ; flowering from July to September. 



The flowers of this species are very pretty, small, and delicate, and 

 sometimes are found in five regular parts, as is the case with some 

 of the others, or perhaps occasionally all the species. 



.6. L. vulgaris, Mcench. (Fig. 998.) common yellow Toadflax. 

 Smooth, erect, leaves linear lanceolate, acute, numerous, crowded ; 

 raceme terminal, crowded ; calyx of oblong lanceolate acute segments, 

 shorter than the spur; seeds with a flat orbicular wing, rough and 

 tub.erculated in the centre. 



