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12. COLLINSIA. (Named by Nuttall for the late Ziccheus Collins of 

 Philadelphia.) Flowers handsome, mostly 2-colored. 0**$***~.^*'4 * i 



C. v6rna. Wild from Western New York W. : slender, 6' -20' high, with '? 

 ovate or lance-ovate and toothed leaves, the upper clasping heart-shaped, and \ 

 slender-peduncled flowers in early spring, lower lip blue, upper white. 



C. blCOlor, of California, and a handsome garden annual, is stouter, with J****/ 4 "^ 

 crowded flowers as if whorl ed, pedicels shorter than calyx, lower lip of corolla /&u*U~ , tr*^ 

 violet, the upper pale or white, or in one variety both white. 



13. LINARIA, TOAD-FLAX. (Name from Linum, Flax, from resem- 

 blance in the leaves of the commoner species.) Fl. summer. 



# Leavts narrow, sessile, and entire: stems erect : flowers racemed. 



L. Canadensis, WILD T. Gravelly and sandy ground, with scattered 

 linear leaves on the slender flowering stems, or oblong and in pairs or threes on 

 prostrate shoots, and very small blue nowers. (I) 



fC Li. vulgaris, COMMON T., RAMSTED, BUTTER-AXD-EGGS. A showy but &JLfajui fir 

 troublesome European weed, of fields and roadsides, l-3 high, with alternate ^ Q' '< ^ 

 -f" 'rocrowded linear or lanceolate pale leaves, and a dense raceme of yellow flowers <f 



(!' long) with paler tips. ^ ^fc" ~~** 



L. triornith6phora. Cult, from Europe : glaucous, 2 - 3 high, with ^^W* 

 ovate-lanceolate leaves in whorls, and rather large slender-peduncled long-spurred \ Av&-'lt 

 flowers, violet and purple-striped, %. 



# # Leaves broad, often lobed : steins and branches trailing : flowers very small, 

 yellow and purple mixed, on fang axillary prduncles : natives of Europe. 



L. Elatine. Nat. in gravelly or sandy soil : hairy, with ovate and halberd- 

 shaped short-petioled leaves, the lower ones opposite. (T) 



L. Cymbalaria. Cult, as a delicate little trailing ornamental plant : very 

 smooth, pale, with rooting branches, and thickish almost kidney-shaped 3-5- 

 lobed leaves on long petioles 3J. 



14. ANTIRRHINUM, SNAPDRAGON. (Name from the Greek, 

 compares the flower with tbe snout or muzzle of an animal.) Nat. and cult. 

 from Europe : 11. summer. 



1. TRUE SxAi'DRAGOx, with palate closing the. mouth of the corolla, and erect 

 or ascending stems, not climbing. 



A. majus, LARGE S. of the gardens; with stems l-3 high, oblong or 

 lanceolate entire smooth leaves, and glandular-downy raceme of showy flowers, 

 the crimson, purple, white, or variegated corolla over 1' long. 11 a - 



A. Ordntium, SMALL S. Weed in some old gardens and cult, grounds '/^ lk/1/> 

 low, slender, with linear leaves, and white or purplish axillary flowers ' ^/** 

 long. 



2. MAURANDIA-LIKE S., with palate not so large, norftdly closing the mouth, 

 and struts climbing by the coiling of their slender pttiol<s and sometimes of 

 the ptduncles also. 



A. maurandioides, cult, from Texas and Mexico, as MAURANDIA 

 AXTIRRHINI FLORA ; smooth, with triangular-halberd-shaped leaves, or some of 

 them heart-shaped, and showy flowers in their axils, the violet or purple corolla 

 1 ' or more long. 2/ 



15. MAURANDIA. (Named for Prof. Maurandu.) Excluding the last 

 preceding species, which has the flower of Snapdragon, and including 

 Loi'HOSPERMUM, which has wing-margined seeds. Mexican climbers, with 

 triangular and heart-shaped or halberd-shaped and obscurely lobed leaves, 

 tender, cult, for ornament: fl. all summer. 



1 . Corolla naked inside, rather obviously 2-lipped. 



M. Barclayana. Stems and leaves smooth ; calyx glandular-hairy, clam- 

 my, its divisions lance-linear ; corolla purple, usually dark, 2' or more long. 



