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by the fall of an operculum. Seeds ovoid, with a network of 

 strongly elevated ridges. Plant (with the exception of the pedun- 

 cles up to the bend at their apex) clothed with short bristly-woolly 

 hairs, intermixed on the stem witli shorter gland-tipped ones. 



In cornfields and waste places, on chalky and sandy soils, more 

 rarely on wet ground. Common in the South of England ; more 

 rare in the North, extending to Yorkshire and Lancashire ; on the 

 ballast-hills at the mouth of the Tyne, but there introduced. 



England, Ireland. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Central stem at first erect, afterwards prostrate ; branches very 

 slender, prostrate, spreading in all directions, G inches to 2 feet or 

 more long. Longest leaves not above 1 inch long ; earliest leaves 

 opposite ; the rest alternate, decreasing in size towards the apex of 

 the branches, truncate and hastate or sagittate-hastate at the base. 

 Peduncles divaricate, very slender, stiff, bent round at the apex. 

 Elowers f inch long, of which the spur is nearly half, pale yellow, 

 with the inner face of the upper lip violet, the lower lip slightly 

 touched with violet towards the base ; spur nearly straight, forming 

 an obtuse angle with the lower side of the corolla, directed outwards 

 from the bending at the apex of the peduncle. Capsule about the 

 size of a sweet-pea seed. Seeds irregularly honeycombed. Plant 

 green, with the leaves slightly hairy, ciliated with longer hairs ; 

 stem with long white jointed hairs and shorter gland-tipped ones ; 

 peduncles glabrous except above the bend ; sepals bristly hairy ; 

 corolla with a few hairs. 



Sharp-leaved Fluellin. 



French, Linaire Elatine. German, Spiesshllittriger Frauenjlachs. 



SPECIES III!— LIN ART A SPURIA. Mill. 



Plate DCCCLVII. 



Rdch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXX. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 595. 

 Antirrhinum spurium, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 691. 



Annual. Stems slender, branched from the base ; branches 

 elongated, procumbent, not rooting. Lower leaves and most of 

 those on the main stem, up to those which have flowers in the 

 axils, opposite or nearly so ; the rest alternate ; all very shortly 

 stalked, oval, roundish-oval, or ovate-oval, not hastate or sagittate 

 at the base, obtuse or sub-obtuse and apiculate, entire or remotely 

 serrate - dentate. Pedicels ascending - spreading, elongated, the 

 upper ones exceeding the leaves, clothed throughout with stifif 



