ANTIRRHINUM. 
A. podocephala, quite common in the limestone and dolomite cliffs 
(especially on Northern exposures), between 2000 and 3000 feet, in 
the mountains of Malaga, forms a bush of a foot or two of fluffy foli- 
age, with really splendid, many-headed big clusters of golden blooms 
emerging on long stems from the axils of the leaves. 
A. rosea is yet another Spanish beauty—a dense tight tuffet of 
gleaming silver, with big hemispherical heads, on short stems, of 
large flowers, pink in the wing and violet in the keel. This belongs to 
limestone precipices about 3000 feet up in the Sierra de Mallorca. 
A. tejedensis is akin to A. podocephala, but cosily neat and close 
and dwarf and declining, and perfectly snowy-white in its foliage. 
The stems of the flower-heads are shorter, and the flowers themselves 
range from bright gold to rich violet, looking incomparably charm- 
ing upon the wide low mats of light silver that the plant achieves 
in the same rocky soils and situations as those affected by A. podo- 
cephala, but much higher up, at about 7000 feet in the mountains 
of Granada and the Sierra Nevada. In cultivation there should be 
little doubt as to the hardiness, with luck, of A. rosea and A. podo- 
cephala, in warm dry rock-work, but none at all about that of the 
alpine A. tejedensis. 
A. Vulneraria, the English Ladies’-fingers, is an ornamental enough 
thing from grassy rocks, locally abundant all over the country. It 
has further forms, however, that vary from the yellow of the type. 
Not very notable is the rather lymphatic white, but A. illyrica is a 
goodly violet development. Then there is a rose or red variety, 
called rubriflora or Dillenit, which may be seen on the rocks of Corn- 
wall. Finally there is a little completely prostrate form of this last, 
called minor, with smaller red flowers on longer stems. But A. 
Vulneraria is a vast and tangled name, its many developments 
requiring systematic treatment. 
Antirrhinum.—The common Snapdragon is gorgeous enough in 
its home-bred forms of cream or salmon, or scarlet or crimson; but 
for those who prefer unsophisticated pure species, there are the 
following—omitting annuals and weeds : 
A. Asarina should more rightly now be called Asarrhina Loebelit, 
this being the name that has prior authority. However, it is so near 
Antirrhinum, and as A. Asarina has rooted itself so deep in our 
lists and walls, that perhaps the more convenient later name may be 
allowed to stand. It makes a mass of frail and fleshy stems, twisting and 
depending from the rocks in which it must be put. The leaves are 
opposite to each other, ivy-shaped and with scalloped edge, large and 
soft and sticky-grey like the whole fat and brittle plant. The flowers 
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