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straight, peduncles glabrous, st. procumbent. Antirrhinum Sm., 

 E. B. 692. St. 70. 1 1 . Fl. solitary, axillary, upon long slender 

 stalks, small, yellow, with the upper lip purple. Gravelly and 

 chalky corn-fields. A. VII. IX. E. I. 



3. L. spuria (Mill.) ; L roundish-ovate, spur curved upwards, 

 peduncles hairy, st. procumbent. Antirrh. Sm., E. B. 691. St. 

 70. 12. Fl. similar to the last but larger. L. with here and 

 there a small tooth. In this species and the two preceding 

 some of the fl. are often regular with 5 spurs or partially so with 

 2, 3, or 4. Gravelly and sandy corn-fields. A. VII. IX. E. 



4. L. minor (Desf.); I- linear-lanceolate obtuse-glandular- 

 pubescent mostly alternate, fl. solitary axillary, peduncles 3 times 

 as long as the calyx, segments of the upper lip diverging, seeds 

 oblong sulcate. Antirrhinum Sm., E. B. 2014. St. 70. 15. 

 Fl. small ; the tube, upper lip, and spur of the cor. purplish ; 

 lower lip yellowish. St. erect, 4 10 in. high, branched, glan- 

 dular-pubescent. Sandy and gravelly fields. A. VI. VIII. 



[5. L. Pelisseriana (Mill.); glabrous, 1. linear, the lower ternate 

 or quaternate upper alternate, sterile branches radical prostrate 

 with ternate lanceolate or ovate I.,/, racemose, peduncles as long 

 as the bracts, sepals linear acute twice as long as the capsule, 

 seeds discoidal with a fimbriated wing smooth externally tuber- 

 cular within. E. B. S. 2832. Fl. purple with darker veins. St. 

 one or more from each root, erect, about a foot high. Caps, 

 bilobed. Jersey. A. VI.] 



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

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

 shorter than the caps, or spur, seeds smooth discoidal with an 

 orbicular striated margin. L. maritima DC. Icon. Gall. 12. 

 Fl. capitate-racemose, yellow; throat and spur with slender purple 

 lines. Style entire. Catdown Quarries, Plymouth ; and Poole, 

 Dorset ; a ballast plant. Perhaps a native at Hayle, and St. 

 Blazey's Bay, Cornwall. A. VII. VIII. E. 



[.L. purpurea (Mill.) ; glabrous, 1. linear-lanceolate scattered, 

 lower 1. irregularly in fours, fl. narrowly racemose, sep. linear 

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

 with a network of elevated lines. Fl. purple or yellow with the 

 lips purple ; spur two or three times longer than the ped. which 

 is usually shorter than the bract. St. erect, leafy. Old walls : 

 an escape from gardens. P. VII. VIII.] E. 



7- L. repens (Ait.) ; 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. striataDC., Koch, R. L t. 423. Fl. white with 



