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flowering. Pedicels about as long as the calyx. Calyx-segments 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla five or six times as long 

 as the calyx ; spur as long as the corolla, acute, nearly straight, in a 

 line with the under side of the corolla. Capsule globular-ovoid, 

 three times as long as the calyx, each valve splitting into 3. 

 Seeds sub-orbicular, tuberculate, surrounded by a broad concavo- 

 convex smooth wing. Plant glaucous and glabrous, except the 

 rachis and pedicels, which are almost always clothed with short 



gland-tipped hairs. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Plates DCCCCLXII. DCCCCLXIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXXV. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 425. 



Leaves strapshaped, or the lower ones elliptical-strapshaped, 

 indistinctly 3-nerved. Rachis and pedicels generally clothed with 

 gland-tipped hairs. Calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate. 



Yar. /B, latifolia. Bab. 



Plate DCCCCLXIV. 



L. speciosa, Ten. ? Fl. Neap. Tab. CLIX. Fig. 1. Bromf. Phyt. Ser. I. Vol. III. 

 p. 627 ; and Fl. Vect. p. 347. 



Leaves strapshaped-elliptical, or the lower ones narrowly-ellip- 

 tical, distinctly 3-nerved. Uachis and pedicels glabrous. Calyx- 

 segments lanceolate. Plowers considerably larger than var. a, and 

 with the spur slightly curved, the bracts generally larger and more 

 like the leaves. 



Hedges, borders of fields, and waste ground. Common, and 

 generally distributed in England and the South of Scotland. Hare 

 to the North of the Eorth and Clyde, but occurring as far Nortli 

 as Aberdeen, Moray, and Dumbarton. Var. was found by the late 

 Dr. Bromfield on the wooded shore a little to the w^est of Hyde, 

 towards Binstead, Isle of Wight, and by myself in the great 

 chalk-pit at Northfleet, Kent. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 



and Autumn. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, almost woody below. Leaves very 

 numerous, 1 to 2\ inches long. Elowers numerous, crowded, 

 nearly J inch long without the spur, pale-yellow, with the palate 

 orange, sometimes white or nearly white. Seeds ^2" i^cli in 

 diameter, black. 



