LINARIA. 



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margins of beds of lilies, in borders, 

 or in the rock-garden, in sandy loam. 



Linaria alpina (Alpine Toadflax}. 

 A pretty dwarf plant, forming dense 

 tufts of a bluish silvery tone ; 6 in. 

 high. Flowers, in Slimmer ; bluish- 

 violet with a rich golden centre, in 

 form, like those of the Snapdragon, 

 but much smaller, in a close raceme 

 at the top of the stems. Leaves, 

 smooth, glaucous, linear - lanceolate, 

 entire, \ to f in. long ; the lower ones 

 in whorls of 4. Alps and Pyrenees. 



The rock-garden and the margins 



of borders, in sandy or fine gravelly 

 soil. It may be naturalized in moist 

 districts, in bare, or nearly bare, sandy 

 or gravelly places. Seed or division. 



Linaria crassifolia (Thick - leaved 

 Toadflax}. A small and pretty, though 

 not very showy species, 3 to 6 in. high. 

 Flowers, in summer ; fine blue, with a 

 yellow deeply-channelled throat ; upper 

 lip erect, with rounded lobes ; lower lip 

 roundish - wedge - shaped, with flat, 

 close, emarginate divisions; in loose 

 racemes. Leaves, fleshy, ovate, nar- 

 rowed into the leaf-stalk, without 

 veins ; stem branching at the base, 

 glandular-pubescent. Southern Spain, 



near the town of Chiva. This plant 



resembles L. oriyanifolia, and, in the 

 dried specimen, is hardly to be dis- 

 tinguished from it, but the living 

 plants present a marked difference. 

 The rock-garden, walls, ruins, borders, 

 or in pans, in light, sandy soil. IHvi- 

 sion and seed. 



Linaria Cymbalaria (Try L.) A 

 very common and elegant trailer, 

 with small, roundish, or kidney-shaped 

 leaves, in outline somewhat resembling 

 those of Ivy. Flowers, all summer; pale 

 blue or lilac, small, with short spurs, on 

 recurved stalks. Leaves, stalked, shin- 

 ing, broadly 5-lobed ; slightly marked 

 with hand-shaped veins ; lobes rounded 

 or wedge-shaped. There is a variety 

 with white flowers, and another with 



variegated leaves, both very pretty, 

 and well worthy of culture. On old 

 walls and stony places, in several 

 parts of Europe, and apparently wild 

 in Britain, but probably only natu- 

 ralized. Walls and rough rock- 

 work or rootwork, in any soil, or 

 without soil on dry walls. It usually 

 establishes itself. Seed. 



Linaria dalmatica (Large Yellow 

 L.} A vigorous - growing peren- 

 nial, 3 to 5 ft. high. Flmvers, in 

 summer ; large, handsome, light- 

 yellow, in branching spikes. Leaves, 

 sessile, oval, pointed, entire, glaucous ; 

 leaves of the branches much smaller, 

 narrower, and more pointed ; stem 



smooth. Dalmatia and Levant. 



Borders, in well - drained, ordinary 

 soil. Seed and division. 



Linaria genistaefolia (Broom-leaved 

 L.) A tall, smooth, erect, glaucous 

 herb, with branching stems ; 2 to 4 ft. 

 high. Flowers, in summer; pale 

 yellow, a little smaller than those of 

 L. vulgaris, in loose racemes ; mouth 

 of corolla yellow; spur nearly straight, 

 equal in length to the corolla. Leaves, 

 somewhat clasping, 1 to 2 in. long, 

 lance- shaped, acute, 3- or 5-nerved. 



Central Europe and Caucasus. 



Borders, in sandy soil, and naturalized 

 in stony or gravelly places, or on old 

 walls or ruins. Seed. 



Linaria origanifolia (Marjoram- 

 leaved L.) A dwarf kind, allied to 

 L. crassifolia. Flowers, in summer ; 

 bluish- violet, with yellow throat ; 

 rather small, in the axils of the upper 

 leaves forming a loose raceme. Leaves, 

 oblong, on short stalks, lower ones 

 opposite ; upper ones alternate. Py- 

 renees and South of France, on walls 



and rocks. The rock-garden, old 



walls, in pans, or on the margin of the 

 mixed border, in sandy loam. Propa- 

 gated by seed or division. 



Linaria purpurea (Purple L.} An 

 erect, rather tall kind, 1 to 3 ft. high 



