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*5. L. supina (Desf.) ; glabrous, rachis, ped. and sep. glan- 

 dular-hairy , 1. linear blunt mostly whorled, sep. linear-spathulate 

 shorter than the caps, or spurs, seeds smooth nearly flat with a 

 striate wing. Sy. E. B. 858. L. maritima DO. Icon. Gall. 12. 

 St. diffuse or ascending. Fl. capitate-racemose, yellow; 

 throat and spur with slender purple lines. Styles entire. 

 Plymouth and Poole ; a ballast plant. Perhaps a native at 

 Hayle, and St. Blazey's Bay, Cornwall. A. VII. VIII. E. 



*6. L. purpurea (Mill.) ; glabrous, 1. linear-lanceolate scat- 

 tered, lower 1. irregularly in fours, fi. narrowly racemose, sep. 

 linear shorter than the caps, and long incurved spur, seeds 

 angular with a network of elevated lines. Sy. E. B. 960. Fl. 

 purple or yellow with the lips purple ; spur two or three times 

 as long as the ped. which is usually shorter than the bract. 

 St. erect, leafy. Old walls. Naturalized. P. VIE. VIII. E. 



7. L. repens (Mill.) ; glabrous, 1. linear scattered or partly 

 whorled, fl. racemose, sep. lanceolate as long as the spur but 

 shorter than the caps., seeds angular with transverse elevated lines. 

 E. B. 1253. L. striata DC. Fl. white with blue veins. St. 

 erect, branched, leafy, 1 1J foot high, slender. Seeds much 

 smaller than those of L. vulgaris. L. italica and L. sepium may 

 be hybrids between this and L. vulgaris. Calcareous soils, par- 

 ticularly near the sea, rare. P. VII. IX. E. I. 



8. L. vulgaris (Mill.) ; glabrous, rachis and peduncles glan- 

 dular-hairy, 1. linear-lanceolate scattered crowded, fl. racemose 

 imbricate, sep. ovate acute glabrous shorter than the caps, or 

 spur, seeds tubercular-asperous with a smooth orbicular margin. 

 E. B. 658. Fl. large, yellow, rarely milk-white with an 

 orange palate. St. erect, 2 feet high, as well as the 1. glabrous. 

 Common and partial flower-stalks occasionally glabrous. The 

 state called Peloria with 5 spurs and an equal and regular cor. 

 is rarely found. E. B. 260. /3. latifolia (Bab.); 1. narrowly 

 lanceolate, fl.-l. often lanceolate very glaucous, fl. twice as large 

 in a few-fl. lax raceme, ped. glabrous, spur directed perpendicu- 

 larly downwards. Sy. E. B. 964. L. speciosa Ten. ? Hedges 

 on a gravelly soil. P. VI. VII. Yellow Toadflax. E. S. I. 



5. SCROPHULA'RIA Linn. Eigwort. 



* Cal. of 5 rounded lobes. Cor. purplish ; upper lip with a scale 

 (staminode) on its inner side. 



1. S. nodosa (L.) ; /. ovate acute subcordate glabrous doubly 

 and acutely serrate, lower teeth largest, st. acutely 4-angular, 



