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FLOWERS OF WASTE PLACES, ETC. 



The flower is very similar to that of the Common Toadflax but 

 smaller, and violet and white, less conspicuous except in patches, and 



Photo. Flatters & Garnett 



CREEPING TOADFLAX (Linaria refiens, Mill.) 



the spur is blunt. The capsule breaks up by numerous valves, and 

 allows the seeds to fall out around the parent plant. 



It is a sand-loving plant addicted to a sand soil, or a lime-loving 

 plant growing freely on lime soil, being found on Lias limestone, and 

 chalk, or Oolite. 



The second Latin name refers to its creeping habit. 





