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flower-stalk and calyx glandular-pubescent, leaves linear, 

 somewhat fleshy, the lower in whorls of 4 ; fields ; South- 

 ern Switzerland (very rare), Pyrenees. V. striata, DC. 

 (repens, Ait.); perennial, flowers larger, corolla striped 

 with violet and yellow, or rarely white, spur sometimes 

 wanting, flower-stalk glabrous, stem 1-3 ft. ; Southern 

 Switzerland (very rare), Lombardy, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 

 L. Pelisseriana, Mill. ; annual, stem erect, 6-10 in., gla- 

 brous, leaves linear, often in whorls, seeds with a fimbriate 

 wing; fields in the South. L. origanifolia, DC. (PL 91); 

 perennial, stem partially decumbent, racemes short, leaves 

 oblong or obovate, shortly stalked ; Pyrenees. 



C. Flowers purple or violet, axillary, usually solitary : 

 L. Cymbalaria, L., Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Mother of Thou- 

 sands ; perennial, stem prostrate, leaves 3-7-lobed, glab- 

 rous; walls and rocks. L. minor, Desf.; annual, flowers on 

 long stalks, leaves linear-oblong, alternate ; fields, common. 



D. Flowers yellow, solitary, axillary : L. spuria, Mill., 

 a very hairy plant with ovate or orbicular leaves; and 

 L. Elatine, Mill., a very hairy plant with hastate leaves, 

 are annual weeds in cultivated land. 



Several other species occur in cultivated land in the 

 Pyrenean lowlands. 



3. ANTIRRHINUM, Tourn. 



Flowers axillary or in racemes ; corolla personate, with 

 a saccate tube ; stamens 4 ; stigma shortly 2-lobed ; cap- 

 sule of two unequal cells, dehiscing by pores; leaves 

 usually entire and alternate. 



A. majus, L. ; Snapdragon, Frog's-Mouth ; flowers 

 large, radical leaves lanceolate ; walls (naturalised in 

 Switzerland). A. latifolium, DC. ; flowers yellow, leaves 



