ANTIRRHINUM. 
are big, borne by themselves in the axils of the leaves, pale citron 
yellow, and the lip striped with red. It blooms, like the others, all 
the summer through, and is so saxatile that some of the happiest and 
oldest specimens seen in our gardens spring and wax huge from some 
seed strayed into a microscopic crack of cliff or ancient wall where 
there appears not to be any sustenance. 
A. Barrelieri grows straight and stiff and rather graceful, attaining 
2 or 3 feet, with rather few and sparse narrow dark leaves, and long 
loose spikes of rather smaller variable Snapdragons. (Eastern border 
of Spain, and so Westward in South Europe.) It is hardy, like the 
rest, yet cultivators must remember where the Snapdragons come 
from. They demand full sun and drought; they hate shade and 
damp, more especially in winter. 
A. Charidemii should be a pretty rock-plant, from crevices of 
Almeria, attaining 2 or 3 feet, with rather narrow alternate leaves, 
oval and more or less downy. The pink, crimson-striped dragons are 
carried in specially lax spires. 
A. glutinosum, a frail cliff-lover, very glandular and sticky, almost 
woody at the base, densely branchy and twisting and flopping and 
leafy, the uprising shoots at the end being quite short, and the whole 
spray thickly clothed in short expanded, little egg-shaped leaves. The 
flowers are as in the last, but a trifle smaller. There is also a variety, 
A. g. rupestre, which has a much tighter habit, and rose-pink Snap- 
dragons. A. glutinosum is found on walls and rocks at low levels 
in Castille and Nevada, scarcely attaining even to the sub-alpine 
region. Yet it will happily stand our climate, if it has the advan- 
tage of a well-drained sheltered corner that is dry in winter. Seed 
or cuttings. 
A. hispanicum is offered in cultivation, but looks doubtful. 
The true typical species is close akin to A. Barreliert (but with foliage 
broader, though no less pointed), from which it is easily known by 
being sticky, especially near the tops of the shoots. It is a twisting 
branchy thing, attaining to 2 or 3 feet, with flowers nearly the size of 
Majus, ample and pale yellow with orange lip. The species abounds 
in the walls of Spain, and varies into broader-leaved and less viscid 
forms. No doubt the colour may vary also. 
A. latifolium is the common Snapdragon of the Riviera. Its 
blossoms are yellow, but it may at once be known from A. majus by its 
broader leaves, which are clothed in a fine down instead of being bald 
as those of the common Snapdragon. Akin to this is the rare A. 
meonanthum (with a bigger variety A. Hwuettiz), with flowers half the 
Size. 
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