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9. LTNARIA, TOADFLAX. (From Linnm, Flax, from resemblance 

 in the leaves of the commoner species.) Flowers summer. 



* Leaves narrow, sessile, and entire; stems erect; flowers racemed. 



■*- Flowers yelloic. 



L. vulgaris, Mill. Common T., Ramsted, Butter and Eggs. A showy 

 but troublesome European weed, of fields and roadsides, l°-3° high, with 

 alternate crowded linear or lanceolate pale leaves, and a dense raceme of 

 flowers V long with paler tips. 2Z (Lessons, Fig. 258.) 



-t- I- Flowers blue or violet. 



L. Canadensis, Dumont. AVild 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 flowers. ® @ 



L. triornithdphora, Willd. Cult, from Eu.; glaucous, 2°-3° high, with 

 ovate-lanceolate leaves in whorls, and rather large, slender-peduncled, 

 long-spurred flowers, violet and purple-striped. 11 



* » Leaves broad, often lobed ; stems and branches trailing ; flowers 



very small, yellow and purple mixed, on long axillary pedicels; natives 



of Eu. 



L. Eldtine, Mill. Nat. in gravelly or sandy soil ; hairy, with ovate and 

 halberd-shaped, short-petioled leaves, the lower ones opposite. ® 



L. Cymbalaria, Mill. Kenilworth Ivy. 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. 2Z 



10. ANTIRRHINUM, SNAPDRAGON. (Name Greek, compares the 



flower with the snout or muzzle of an animal.) Flowers summer. 



(Lessons, Fig. 257.) 



§ 1. Trde Snapdragon, toith palate closing the mouth of the corolla, 

 and erect or ascending stems, not climbing. Nat. and cult, from Eu. 



A. majus, Linn. Large S., of the gardens ; with stems l°-3° high, 

 oblong or lanceolate entire, smooth leaves, and glandular-downy raceme 

 of showv flowers, the crimson, purple, white, or variegated corolla over 

 I'long. ' H 



A. Ordntium, Linn. Small S. Weed in some old gardens and cult, 

 grounds ; low, slender, with linear leaves, and white or purplish axillary 

 flowers ^' long. 



§ 2. Maurandia-like S., loith palate not so large, nor fully closing the 

 7nouth, and stems climbing by the coiling of their slender petioles, and 

 sometimes of the peduncles also. 



A. maurandioldes, Gray. Cult, from Texas and Mexico, generally as 

 MaurAndia antikhhiniflora ; 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. H 



11. MAUrXnDIA. (Named for Prof. Maurandy.) Excluding the 

 last preceding species, which has the flower of Snapdragon, and includ- 

 ing Lophospermum, which has wing-margined seeds. Mexican climbers, 

 with triangular and heart-shaped or halberd-shaped and obscurely 

 iobed leaves, tender, cult, for ornament ; flowers all summer. 



* Corolla naked inside, rather obviously 2-lipped. 

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

 hairy, clammy, its divisions lance-linear ; corolla purple, usually dark, 

 2' or more long. 



