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nistcefolium, Broom-leaved Toad-Flax; 13. A. tnajus, Great Toad- 

 Flax, or Snap-Dragon; 14. A. bellidifolium, Daisy-leaved Toad-Flax, 

 or Snap-Dragon. 



The first species has a hard woody creeping perennial root: the 

 stems several, from one to two feet in height, full of leaves, round 

 and smooth: the leaves pointed, smooth, and of a blueish colour, 

 growing without order: the flowers yellow with the palate orange, 

 villose, in a thick terminal spike: the nectary long and awl-shaped: 

 the upper segment of the calyx a little longer than the rest: the two 

 lower ones gaping, widest: the capsule cylindric, splitting at the top 

 into several equal divisions. It grows by road -sides, and flowers 

 from June to August. By culture the flowers become larger and 

 finer. 



The second species has a fibrous perennial root, inserting itself so 

 into the crevices of walls and rocks as scarcely to be eradicated: the 

 stalks are numerous, growing in a tuft, creeping at bottom, branched, 

 round, purplish and stringy: the leaves roundish, shining, somewhat 

 fleshy, some opposite, others alternate, frequently purplish: lobes 

 of the lower ones blunt, upper acute, the smallest only three-lobed: 

 the petioles long and grooved above: the peduncles from the axils, 

 one-flowered, round, a little longer than the petioles: the tube of 

 the corolla short: the upper lip purple, with two deeper veins; seg- 

 ments of the lower whitish: the palate yellow: the mouth or entrance 

 into the lube villous and saffron-coloured: the nectary purple and 

 conical, the length of the calyx: the germ purple: the capsule 

 wrinkled, opening at top into several segments: the seeds are black, 

 roundish and wrinkled like the nut of the walnut. The whole plant 

 is smooth, but has a disagreeable smell. 



There is a variety with a white flower. 



The third is an annual plant, which rises with an upright branch- 

 ing stalk near a foot and half high, with oval, smooth, gray leaves, 

 placed often by threes, and sometimes by pairs, opposite at the 

 joints; the flowers grow in short spikes at the top of the stalks; 

 they are shaped like those of the common sort, but have not such 



