144 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Calyx-segments elliptical-strapsliaped, obtuse, clothed with gland- 

 tipped hairs. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx ; spur shorter 

 than the corolla, blunt, straight, making an obtuse angle with the 

 lower side of the corolla. Capsule ovoid-globose, gibbous on the 

 under side at the base, opening at the apex by 2 semicircular 

 pores, which are split at margin into several unequal teeth. 

 Seeds oblong-obovate, with longitudinal acute slightly anasto- 

 mosing ridges. Plant dull-green, clothed with gland-tipped hairs, 

 especially on the stem, peduncles, and sepals. 



In cornfields, especially in chalky and sandy districts. Not un- 

 common in England, at least in the South ; rare in Scotland, where 

 it only occurs in the counties of Berwick, E/Oxburgh, and Lanark ; 

 also said to be naturalized in Kinross-shire ; Cork, Carlow, and 

 near Dublin, Ireland.* 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stem rather wiry, 3 to 18 inches high, often very much 

 branched, with the branches ascending. Leaves J to 1 inch long, 

 narrowed at the base, the lower ones indistinctly stalked, those in 

 the axils of which the flowers are produced not differing from the 

 others. Elowers J inch long, glandular-hairy, pale reddish-purple, 

 with the lower lip yellowish-white. Capsule oblique, somewhat 

 like that of Antirrhinum. Seeds similar to those of L. Cymbalaria. 



Least Toadflax. 

 French, Linaire Naine. German, Kleiner Frauenjlaclis. 



Tribe V.— GHATIOLEtE. 



Corolla tubular, bilabiate, not saccate or spurred at the base ; 

 upper lip generally, but not always, covering the lower in aestiva- 

 tion. Stamens 4, didynamous. Inflorescence simple, indefinite. 

 Leaves, or at least the lower ones, opposite. 



* The publication of Dr. D. Moore and Mr. A. G. Mora's important work, " Con- 

 tributions towards a Cybele Hibernica," enables me for the future to give the general 

 distribution of species in Ireland. 



