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tinct to entitle it to rank as a new species. Specimens of the 

 plant collected by Dr. Allman were seen in London by Mr. 

 H. C. Watson, who recognized them as identical in species 

 with a Linaria, gathered by himself in two English localities, 

 and, moreover, that they corresponded with the Antirrhinum 

 Bauhin of Gaudin's Flora Helvetica, L. Italica, Koch. In 

 accordance with these views, a paper by Mr. Watson ap- 

 peared in the second Number of Sir W. J. Hooker's London 

 Journal of Botany, adding L. Bauhini to the Flora of Britain. 



To the claim, however, of L. Bauhini to be admitted into 

 the British Flora, Dr. Allman could not assent; so far at 

 least as this claim depended on the identity of the Irish with 

 the Continental plant. He had carefully examined the Irish 

 Linaria, and convinced himself not only of its distinctness 

 from L. Bauhini, but of its claim to rank as a new species. 

 To Linaria repens it is closely allied, indeed there is some 

 difficulty in separating it from this plant as a distinct species. 

 Dr. Allman, however, conceived that specific characters 

 would be found in the flowers, which not only differ in colour 

 from those of L. repens, but also in their larger size, and in 

 the greater relative as well as absolute length of the spur. 

 To the new Linaria he gave the specific name sepittm, and 

 described it as follows: 



Linaria sepium. Lin. radice repente, foliis subglaucis 

 lineari-lanceolatis, calcare incurvo corollam gequante, semi- 

 nibus trigonis. 



Radix repens. Caulis erectus simplex v. subramosus, 

 paniculatus. Folia subglauca, lineari-lanceolata, sparsa, 

 inferiora saepe verticillata. Braclece lanceolatae, pedicello 

 breviores, Cali/cis lacinite lanceolatae. Flores in paniculam ex 

 racemis erectis constantem dispositi, et odorem suavem at 

 tenuem exhalentes. Calcar incurvum corollam aequans, la- 

 bium superius, tubus et calcar grisei, slriis palide purpureis 

 eleganter signati : labium inferius dilute luteum, striis pa- 

 lide purpureis et parum distinctis notatum: palatium villis 



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