864 Scrophulariaceae. 
a) Leaves linear. | 
1, Pedicels shorter than the calyx... . 8. L. Haelava. 
2. Pedicels as long as the calyx ... . 9. L. asealonica. 
b) Leaves oblong-lanceolate . ....... 10. L. albifrons. 
1209. (1.) Linaria spuria Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. VIII (1786), p. 15. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.366.— Rehbch. Ic. XVII, tab. 59. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg,, p. 115 no. 777. Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 264. Antirrhinum spurium L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 851. — 
Ic. Dan., tab. 913. — A annual plant, 30—40 cm high, or sometimes 
somewhat more. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, entire, or the lowest 
ones somewhat dentate, round-ovate. Pedicels twice or thrice as 
long as the axillary leaf; calyx-lobes ovate-oblong; corolla yellow, 
with violet upper-lip; spur curved; seeds with gyrate pittings. — 
Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Alexandria, along the Mahmudiya-canal; Damietta; Tukh. 
Also known from the other parts of the Sahara region and Europe 
and Asia. 
1210. (2.) Linaria Elatine Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. VHUI (1786) 
no. 16. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 367, — Flor. Dan., tab. 426. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. dEg., p. 115 no. 778. — Antirrhinum 
Elatine, L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 821. — Limaria caucasica Muss. in 
Spreng., System. I], p. 790. — A slender softly hairy much-branched 
annual; branches up to 60 cm long, prostrate or decumbent, wiry, 
terete. Leaves usually about 1,75 em long and 1 cm broad, ovate. 
truncate, cordate or hastate at the base, minutely mucronate, entire 
or few-toothed near the base; petiole 2—6 mm long. Peduncles 
6—10 mm long, axillary, solitary, slender, subglabrous or villous. 
Calyx 5*/, mm long; segments linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, somewhat unequal. Corolla (including the spur) about 
1 cm long, pale yellow, violet on the inside of the upper lip and 
near the base of the lower lip; spur 61/, mm long straight or 
curved. Filaments pilose; anthers ciliate. Capsule slightly shorter 
than the calyx, globose, minutely puberulous, dehiscing py 2 oblique 
opercula. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Alexandria-West. 
Also known from Kurope, the other parts of North Africa, Madeira 
and the Canary Island. 
var. villosa Boiss. Flor. Or. IV (1879), p. 367. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 115 no. 778. — Linaria bombycina Boiss. 
and Bl. Diagn. Plant. Or., Ser. II fase. I p. 101. — Linaria Prestandreae 
Tineo in Guss. Syn. I, p. 842. — Linaria Sieberi Rchbch. Flor. excurs., 
