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9. LINARIA, TOADFLAX. (From Liuum, Flax, irom resemblance 

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



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



H- Flowers yellow. 



L. vulgaris, Mill. Common T., Kamsted, Bitter and Eggs. A showy 



but troublesome l''uropeau weed, of tield.s and roadsides, 1°-:}" high, with 



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



flowers 1' long with paler tips. 2/ (Lessons, Fig. 258.) 



-i- -^ Floivers blue or violet. 



It. Canadensis, Duiuont. Wild T. Gravelly and sandy ground, with 

 scattered, Ihiear leaves on the slender, flowering stems, or oblong and in 

 pairs or threes on prostrate shoots, and very small, blue flowers. ® (2) 



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

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

 long-spurred flowers, violet and purple-striped. 2/ 

 * * Leaves broad, often lobed ; stems a)id briinches trailincj ; flowers 



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



of Eu. 



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

 halberd-shajied, short-petioled leaves, the lower ones opposite, (i) 



L. Cymbaldria, Mill. Kenilworth Ivv. Cult, as a delicate little 

 trailing ornamental plant ; very smooth, pale, with rooting branches, and 

 thickish almost kidney-shaped 8-5-lobed leaves on long petioles. H 



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

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

 (Lessons, Fig. 257.) 



§ 1. 'I'rie Snapdragon, with palate closing the month of (he corolla, 



and erect or ascending ste7ns, not climbing. Nat. and cult, from En. 



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

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

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

 1' long. ^ 2/ 



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

 grounds; low, slender, with linear leaves, and white or ijurjilish a.\illary 

 flowers V long. ® 

 § 2. Maurandia-like S., wiUi jmlate )i(d .so large, )ior fully closing the 



mouth, and stems climbing by the coiling of /heir slender petioles, and 



sometimes of the peduncles also. 



A. maurandioldes. Gray. Cult, from Te.xas and Mexico, generally as 

 MAirR.iNniA AMii{nniNiEL6KA ; 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. 21 



11. MAURANDIA. (Named for 7V<./. Maurandy.) Exclu.ling the 

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

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

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

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



* Corolla naked inside, rather obviously 2-lipped. 

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

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

 2' or more long. 



