Foxglove and Toadflax 263 
“Ah!” said the other; “I see you have only half 
learnt your trade—I always steal mine ready-made !” 
Kyebright, Bartsia, and Co. may some day go the way 
of Toothwort and Broomrape, which have given up 
all pretence to honesty, and no longer put forth leaves 
or any other green organ. Flowers they must have 
as a means of perpetuating their kind, and these are 
brown or purple, like the rest of the plant; but the 
leaves are merely represented by scales. 
One word in the title of this chapter has not yet 
been mentioned, but as we commenced with the 
Foxglove we will end with the 
Toadflax. And first let us 
refer to a species that is not 
really British, but which has 
taken so kindly to old walls 
and stone dykes throughout 
the country that it is at least 
as noticeable as any of the 
truly indigenous species of 
Linaria. This is the Ivy- 
leaved Toadflax (Linaria 
cymbalaria), represented in 
our plate, a plant that has been 
introduced from the Continent 
either as a salad or a green- 
house trailer, and has then 
effected its escape to the 
garden walls, where it roots in the crevices, and 
the tender thread-like stems trail down, whilst the 
wall is well covered by its comparatively large and 
somewhat fleshy leaves, which are lobed in a fashion 
suggestive of the ivy-leaf. From beneath the leaves, 
Ivy-leaved Toadflax 
