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2 L. Canadensis Dumont Lvs. scattered, erect, linear, obtuse; fls. racemed, 

 st. simple ; scions procumbent ; fls. blue. (D A small species in road-sides, fields, 

 Can. and IT. S. St. very slender, nearly simple, 6 to 12' high, smooth, furnished 

 with small, remote Ivs. A few leafy, prostrate or ascending shoots are given off 

 from the base of the stem, having roundish, opposite or whorled Ivs. Fls. small, 

 in a loose raceme. Throat closed by the light blue palate. Spur filiform, as long 

 the corolla, but in the very slender Southern variety much shorter or 0. Jn. 

 Sept 



3 L. vulgaris Mill. COMMON TOAD-FLAX. Lvs. linear-lanceolate, crowded ; spikes 

 terminal, fls. dense, imbricate; cal. smooth, shorter than the spur. 2| A very 

 showy plant, common by roadsides, N. Eng. to Ky. and Ga. St. erect, smoothish, 

 1 to 2f high, very leafy, and with numerous short, leafy branches. Fls. hi a long, 

 terminal spike. Cor. furnished with a long tail or spur, the mouth closed by a 

 prominent palate. By lateral pressure it opens, closing with a spring when the 

 pressure is removed. Color yellow except the palate, which is orange. JL, Aug. 

 Eur. (Fig. 326.) 



4 L. triomithophorum Willd. THREE-BIRDS. Erect, spreading, smooth 

 and glaucous ; Ivs. all verticittate in 3s or 4s, broad-lanceolate, acute ; fls. interrupt- 

 edly racenious, generally verticillate, on long pedicels. 1$. A showy plant, 2 

 to 4f high, remarkable for the form and hue of the corolla, which resembles three 

 little birds seated in the spur. \ Eur. 



5 L. bipartita TVilld. Glabrous, erect; Ivs. linear, alternate; pedicels much 

 longer than the caL ; sep. lance-linear, acute, membranous at the margin ; cor. 

 upper lip deeply 2-parted; spur slender, arcuate. A beautiful annual. Cor. 8 to 

 10" long, violet-blue, palate orange, f Barbary. 



6. ANTIRRHrNUM, L. SNAP-DRAGON. (Gr. avri, like, p/V, a nose; 

 from a fancied resemblance.) Calyx 5-sepaled ; corolla gibbous (not 

 spurred) at base, the upper lip bifid, reflexed, lower trifid, closed by the 

 prominent palate; caps, valveless, dehiscent by 3 pores. European 

 herbs with the lower Ivs. opposite, the upper alternate. Inflorescence 

 as in Linaria. 



1 A. Majus L. Lvs. lanceolate, opposite ; fls. racemed ; sep. glandular-hairy, 

 lanceolate, obtuse, short. 2 An elegant and popular garden flower, 1 or 2f high. 

 Flowers large, pink-colored, the lower lip white and the mouth yellow, with a 

 gibbous prominence at base beneath. There are varieties with scarlet, scarlet 

 and white, and double flowers. \ 



2 A. Orontium, /?. GRAXDIFLORUM Chav. Glabrous or hairy above, spread- 

 ing; Ivs. oblong-lanceolate; fls. remote, subsessile, upper ones subracemous; 

 cat segments equaling the corolla, and ovoid and very oblique capsule. A 

 showy garden plant, 1 2f high. Cor. 6" long, rose-color or white, with purple 

 spots and veins, f 



7. MAURAN'DIA, Ort, (Named for the lady of Dr. Maurandy of 



Carthagena.) Calyx 5-parted ; corolla tubular, gibbous at base ; palate 

 prominent or with 2 folds ; capsule ovoid-globous, base oblique, cells 

 opening by many valve-like teeth. 2 Mexican herbs, with long, flex- 

 nous branches, climbing or twining. 



1 M. sempervirens Ort. Glabrous; Ivs. cordate-hastate, angular; ped. 

 axillary, 1-flowered ; cal. segm. lanceolate, glabrous. An evergreen climber with 

 large, pale, violet-purple fls. Cor. !' long, the throat open, f 



2 M. Barklayana LindL Glabrous except the cal. ; Ivs. broadly triangu- 

 lar-cordate, or hastate; cal. segm. linear-lanceolate, clothed with long, glandular 

 hairs. A beautiful climber. Corolla purple, oblique, rather larger than in No. 1. 



8. LOPHOSPER'MUM, Don. (Gr. Ao^oc, a crest, <7T%m, seed; 

 from the character.) Calyx 5-parted, leafy ; corolla tube dilated up- 

 wards, throat open, between 2 hairy lines ; capsule globular, subequaJ, 



