HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Snapdragon 



Antirrhinum majus. — Family, Figwort. Color, white, blue, or 

 purple, sometimes variegated with crimson. Calyx, 5-parted, the 

 lobes short. Corolla, tubular, the tube swollen in front, 2-lipped, 

 the upper lip divided into 2 short lobes, the lower 3-divided, 

 spreading at the tip, meeting below and closing the throat. 4 

 stamens, in pairs, 2 shorter, 2 longer. Leaves, narrowly oblong, 

 entire. 



A perennial with leaves and stem glandular, somewhat 

 sticky. Escaped from cultivation and found wild in many 

 places. It would seem to be a discouraging flower for in- 

 sects to extract nectar from, but as a bee stands upon the 

 lower lip, it drops down and opens the throat which would 

 remain closed to a smaller insect. (See White Flowers, p. 125.) 



A. Orontium.— Color, white or purple. (See White Flowers, 



P- I2 5-) 



Blue Toadflax 



Linkria canadensis — Family, Figwort. Color, light blue. Calyx, 

 5-parted. Corolla, 2-lipped, with a small, thread-like spur grow- 

 ing from the lower lip. Upper leaves, bract-like; lower, linear, 

 entire; root-leaves somewhat cut into linear divisions. Flowers, 



blue toadflax (Linaria canadensis) 



in terminal racemes on slender stems, unbranched, 1 to 2 feet high. 

 A rosette of dissected leaves is often found growing at the base of 

 the stem. May to September. 



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