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sphere, so often grown in pots, and made to spread itself over 

 shell and grotto work that this little fast-growing creeper 

 has found its way abroad, and may be seen trailing and blos- 

 soming the whole Summer long, and almost the Winter too, 

 over walls and thatch, and ruined buildings. Its stems are 

 numerous, very long, and thread-like. Its leaves alternate, 

 stalked, and five-lobed, like those of the Ivy but rather rounder. 

 A flower is borne with every leaf, and is sweetly pretty. The 

 upper lip is two-cleft and purple the lower lip three-cleft, 

 spurred, with two horns upon it, which swell up so as to close 

 the mouth of the flower. This swelling is yellow, the rest of 

 the lip light blue or lavender color. The under side of the 

 leaves and stems is purple. 



YELLOW To AD -FLAX. Linaria vulgaris. 



Plate 9, fig. 6. 

 Stem upright. Leaves scattered. Flowers yellow. 



A fine, showy, upright, tall, smooth plant, with large, bright 

 yellow, crowded flowers, opening in August, and decorating 

 the banks of corn fields and hedge-rows. The leaves are 

 linear and scattered. The flowers lipped and personate, that 

 is closed at the mouth, the inner part of the flower orange. 

 Calyx small, smooth, and shorter than the spur. 



O.S Round-leaved Toad-flax, Sharp-pointed Toad-flax, Creeping Pale 

 Blue Toad-flax, and Least Toad-flax. The two first not uncommon in 

 English corn fields. 



SNAP-DRAGON. ANTIRRHINUM. 



GREAT SNAP-DRAGON. Antirrhinum majus. 



Plate g t 'fiff. 7. 



One of the most showy plants, especially when grown in the 

 borders of gardens, as it frequently is putting on every tint 

 from the darkest crimson to the lightest pink, and some- 

 times white. It grows very frequently on the old castles, the 

 walls, and around the chalky cliffs and rocks of the South of 

 England. It is much branched, a foot or more high, flowering 

 in July and August, and bearing round large capsules, con- 

 taining thousands of seeds, and when ripe letting them out by 

 three pores or holes at the top of it. The flowers are some- 



