Scrophularinece L inaria. 



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L. spuria and L. Eldtine are the two annual species fre- 

 quently found in cornfields. They are both small-flowered ; 

 the former erect with ovate or rounded leaves, the latter pro- 

 strate with hastate acute leaves. 



7. ANTIRRHINUM 



This small genus is very near the 

 last, differing mainly in the tube of 

 the personate corolla being saccate, 

 not spurred at the base, and the throat 

 closed by the bearded palate. The 

 species are found in the same regions. 

 The name is a compound of aim, in 

 comparison, and pv, a snout, in allu- 

 sion to the resemblance in the corolla 

 to the face of an animal. 



1. A. majus (fig. 186). Snap- 

 dragon. This familiar perennial has 

 been so long in cultivation that it has 

 escaped in numerous localities, and 

 may now be found on old ruins, walls, 

 chalk cliffs, railway banks, etc., and 

 often in great profusion. The varie- 

 ties in cultivation are numerous and 

 handsome, including pure white, yellow, 

 orange, rosy red, purple, and violet, and 

 others striped or spotted in two or 

 more colours. It is a native of the 

 Mediterranean region. 



A. Orontium is an indigenous 

 dwarf annual with small rosy-purple 

 flowers remarkable for the long narrow 

 sepals which exceed the corolla. 



8. LOPHOSP^RMUM. 

 Half-hardy climbing herbaceous 

 perennials, usually treated as annuals 

 for open-air culture. Leaves hairy, 

 simple, cordate or triangular, coarsely 

 toothed, petiolate. Flowers large, 

 showy, solitary, axillary. Calyx ample, 

 5-lobed, herbaceous. Corolla tubular-cam panulate ; limb of 5 



z 2 



Fig. 186. Antirrhinum majus. 

 ( J nat. size.) 



