VERBASCCM.] SCEOPHULARINE^. 261 



Waste places in Norfolk and Suffolk, especially about Norwich ; a native ? 

 Watson; fl. July. Habit of V. Lychnitis, but leaves much broader, sessile, 

 with small crenatures and more matted with woolly hairs ; cauline cordate. 

 Flowers -f in. diam., several to each bract, bright yellow, Sepals small, 

 lanceolate. Anthers not decurrent. Capsule small, ovoid. DISTKIB. Europe 

 from Belgium southwards, excl. Greece and Kussia. 



4. V. ni'grum, L. ; stem angular, leaves stellately pubescent, raceme 

 nearly simple, flowers yellow, hairs of filaments pwple. 



Waste places, fields, &c. from Notts and Stafford southwards, but often an 

 escape ; fl. June-Oct. Stem 2-3 ft., and whole plant covered with long 

 hairs, not so matted as in the former species. Radical leaves sometimes 

 1 ft., ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, often cordate, petioled, crenate ; 

 cauline, except the upper, petioled, ovate-cordate, hardly white below. 

 Raceme 1-1^ ft., slender, erect. Flowers ^-f in. diam., many to each bract, 

 pedicelled. Antliers not decurreut. Sepals small, lanceolate, tomentose. 

 DISTRIB. Europe, Siberia. 



5. V. Blatta'ria, L. ; nearly glabrous, stem subangular, panicle with 

 slender branches glandular, flowers yellow, hairs of filaments purple. 

 Waste places, rare, from Norfolk and Stafford southwards, and in S. and W. 



of Ireland; probably always an escape; a denizen or alien, Watson; fl. 

 June-Oct. Stem 8 in. to 4 ft., rather slender, simple or branched. Radical 

 leaves 4-10 in., oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, crenate lobulate or subpinnatifid ; 

 cauline small, sessile, ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate, sometimes cor- 

 date, irregularly toothed or subcreuate. Flowers j-l| in. diam., bright 

 yellow, lax or dense ; lower bracts leafy ; peduncles -1 in. Sepals oblong, 

 often large. Anthers of long stamens decurrent. Capsule nearly globose. 

 DISTKIB. Europe from Holland southwards, N. Africa, W. Asia to the 

 Altai and Himalaya ; introd. in N. America. 



Sub-sp. BLATTA'KIA proper ; upper leaves not decurrent, racemes lax-flowered, 

 pedicels solitary slender longer (often much) than the calyx. Native (?) of 

 iS.W. England, probably introd. elsewhere. 



Sub-sp. VIRGA'TUM, With, (sp.) ; more glandular, upper leaves shortly decur- 

 rent, racemes dense-flowered, pedicels more fascicled shorter than the calyx. 



2. LINA'RIA, Tournef. TOAD-FLAX. 



Herbs, rarely shrubby. Lower leaves opposite whorled or alternate. 

 Flowers in bracteate racemes or spikes, rarely axillary and solitary. Calyx 

 5-partite. Corolla personate, tube spurred ; upper lip erect ; lower with 

 the mid-lobe smallest ; palate sometimes closing the throat. Stamens 

 4 fertile, 5th or rudimentary ; anthers oblong. Stigma notched or 2-lobed. 

 Capsule ovoid or globose ; cells nearly equal, dehiscing by simple or 

 toothed pores. Seeds angled or rugose, sometimes discoid and winged. 

 DISTRIB. Europe, W. Asia ; species 100. ETYM. linum, flax, which some 

 sp. resemble. Flowers sometimes regular (Peloria), with 5 spurs and 

 lobes to the corolla and 5 stamens. 



SECTION 1. Cymbala'ria, Chav. Trailing and creeping. Peduncles 

 axillary, 1 -flowered. Spur short ; palate not projecting. Capsule dehiscing 

 by small 3-fid valves. 



L. CYMBALA'RIA, Mill. ; glabrous, leaves petioled subsucculent broadly 

 reniform irregularly 3-7-angled or -lobed. Ivy-leaved Toad-flax. 



