CLASS XIV. ORDER I£.J LINAKIA. 859 



in various parts of the country, but probably the outcast of gardens, 

 from whence it has escaped and become naturalized. 

 Perennial ; flovrcring in .luly and August.^ 



This is an extremely beautiful showy plant, commonly cultivated in 

 gardens; it varies greatly in the colour of its flowers, from a fine dark 

 crimson to pale pink, yellow, and while, and not unfrequently the tube 

 is white, and the lips dark crimson, and the palate yellow, or the tube 

 is variegated with pink and white. It is easy of cultivation in a dry 

 sandy soil, very hardy, and continues in flower a long time. 



2. A. Oron'tium, Linn (Fig. 993.) Lesser Snap-dragon. Leaves 

 lanceolate, alternate and opposite ; spike of a few distant axillary 

 flowers ; calyx with lanceolate segments, longer than the corolla. 



English Botany, t. 1 165. — English Flora, vol. iii. p. 137. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 238. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 192. 



Root of branched fibres. Stem erect, from a few inches to two feet 

 high, simple, or mostly branched at the base, round, smooth below 

 downy above. Leaves lanceolate or linear lanceolate, tapering into a 

 footstalk, the lower sometimes ovate, opposite, the upper mostly alter- 

 nate, more or less downy, paler beneath, and with a stout mid-rib. 

 Inflorescence a lax spike of distant axillary alternate flowers, the floral 

 leaves or bracteas linear. Calyx of five long linear smooth or downy 

 segments, at first not longer than the corolla, but shortly becoming 

 almost as long again. Corolla purplish pink, small, the tube nearly 

 cylindrical, pale, striated, the upper lip broadly ovate, of two shallow 

 lobes, the lower lip of three unequal ovate acute ones, the palate 

 yellowish, orange coloured, downy within. Stamens with linear flla- 

 ments, inserted into the base of the tube. Anthers small, yellow, of 

 two ovate cells. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma obtuse. 

 Capsule downy, obliquely ovate, opening at the end with three valved 

 pores, the base of the style persistent. Seeds small, numerous, black, 

 furrowed. 



Habitat. — Corn fields, but not common ; more frequent in the South 

 and South-east of England in a light soil. 



Annual ; flowering in July and August. 



The flowers of thic species are small and insignificant compared 

 with the last species. It is much moro frequent in the corn fields and 

 vineyards on the Continent, especially in Italy, than with us. 



GENUS XXXI. LINARI'A.— Juss. Toadflax. 



Nat. Ord. Scrophdlaria'ce^. Lind. 



Gen. Char. Calyx five partite. Corolla personate, spurred at the 

 base, its mouth closed by a prominent swollen palate, upper lip 

 bifid, the lower three-cleft. Capsule two celled, opening at the 



