262 SCROPHULARINEJE. [LIXAUIA. 



Old walls, from the Forth and Clyde southwards, and in Ireland ; an alien, 

 Watson ;fl. May-Sept.- Perennial. Branches 6-24 in., slender. Leaves f^m. 

 d_iam. ; lobes acute. Flowers $ in., blue-purple ; peduncles slender. >'< //f ,/. 

 linear-lanceolate. Palate yellow, closing the throat. Capsule small, globose. 

 Seeds wingless, testa wrinkled. DISTRIB. Europe from Holland southwards, 

 excl. Turkey. Eaten as a salad in S. Europe. 



SECTION 2. Elatinoides, Chav. Diffuse. Peduncles axillary, 1- 

 flowered. Spur as long as the corolla ; palate projecting. Capsule de- 

 hiscing by pores which are furnished with deciduous valves. 



1. Zi. spu'ria, Mill. ; hairy or villous and glandular, leaves shortly 

 petioled ovate or orbicular entire or obtusely toothed. Male Fluellin. 

 Sandy and chalky cornfields, from Lincoln and Notts southwards ; a colonist, 



Watson; fl. July-Oct. Annual. Stem 4-18 in., erect; branches many, 

 prostrate, slender. Leaves ^1 in., opposite or alternate, rarely cordate, 

 acute or apiculate. Peduncles longer than the leaves. Sepals oblong or 

 ovate-cordate. Corolla Jin., yellow, throat purplish above; spur at right 

 angles to the tube. Fifth stamen a small scale. Capsule subglobose. N >/.< 

 with broad deep pits. DISTRIB. Europe from Holland southwards (excl. 

 Turkey), N. Africa, W. Asia ; introd. in N. America. 



2. L. Elat'ine, Mill. ; hairy or villous and slightly glandular, leaves 

 shortly petioled, cauline alternate broadly hastate acute. 



Sandy and gravelly cornfields, from Anglesea and Yorkshire southwards ; S. 



and W. of Ireland, rare ; a native or colonist, Watson, ; fl. July-Oct. Annual. 



Branches 6-30 in., many from a very short stem, prostrate, very slender. 



Leaves, radical and lower opposite, ovate ; cauline J-l in., sometimes toothed 



towards the very acute basal lobes. Peduncle* capillary, longer than the 



leaves, curved at the top. Sepals oblong-lanceolate. Corolla ^- in., yellow ; 



upper lip purple within. Capsule globose. Seeds much as in L. sj>'/i i". 



DISTRIB. Europe from Denmark southwards, N. Africa to Abyssinia, W. 



Asia to the Himalaya ; introd. in N. America. 



SKCTION 3. Iiinarias'trum, Chav. Flowers racemed. Spur long or 

 short ; palate prominent. Capsule 4-10-valved at the top. 



3. Zi. vulga'ris, Mill. ; perennial, erect, almost glabrous glaucous, 

 leaves linear or lanceolate, sepals ovate or lanceolate shorter than the spur 

 or capsule, corolla yellow. 



Waste ground from Moray and Dumbarton southwards, rarer hi Ireland ; fl. 

 July-Oct. Rootstock creeping. Stem. 1-2 ft., stout or slender, leafy. Leaves 

 1-3 in., often whorled. Raceme dense-flowered ; pedicels variable ; bracts 

 linear. Corolla f-1 in. ; spur short in a line with and as long as the tube, 

 acute. Capsule broadly oblong. Seed* scabrous, winged. DISTIUB. Europe 

 (Arctic), excl. Turkey, Siberia, Dahuria ; introd. in N. America. A re- 

 puted purgative and diuretic. 



VAR. 1, vulga'ris proper ; leaves obscurely 3-nerved, raceme glandular-pubes- 

 cent, sepals ovate-lanceolate. VAR. 2, latifo'lia, Bab. ; leaves :;-nervcd, 

 raceme glabrous, bracts foliaceous, sepals lanceolate, corolla 1^ in. L. 

 speciosa, Bromf. Isle of Wight and Kent. 



4. Z,. Pelisseria na, Mill. ; annual, erect, glabrous, leaves linear, sepals 

 subulate shorter than the slender spur longer than the capsule, corolla 

 purple. 



