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Ilerbs, with the habit of Antirrhinum, but with the flowers 

 smaller, sometimes very small, and always more or less spurred at 

 the base. In many of the species, flowers occur with 2, 3, or more 

 spurs ; when with 5 spurs and a regular tubular-conical corolla, 

 the form is termed Peloria. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from the word liuum, flax, to which the 

 leaves of some of the species bear resemblance. 



Section I.— CYMBALARIA. Chop. 



Perennial. Stems diffusely branched, with the branches pro- 

 cumbent, rooting at the base. Leaves long-stalked, palmatcly 

 nerved, generally lobed. Flowers axillary, distant. Corolla with 

 the palate prominent, closing the throat, not extending beyond 

 the upper lip. Capsule opening by 2 valves, each of which splits 

 into 3. Seeds oblong, wingless, rugose. 



SPECIES I.— LIN ARIA CYMBALARIA. Mill. 



Plate DCCCCLV. 



JReick Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXX. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 594. 



Antirrhinum Cymbalaria, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 502. 



Perennial. Stems procumbent, diffusely branched ; branches 

 elongated, rooting at the base. Leaves mostly alternate, with 

 petioles much longer than the lamina, roundish -reniform, cordate, 

 5- to 7-lobed ; lobes deltoid-ovoid, obtuse or mucronate. Pedicels 

 elongated, often as long as or exceeding the leaves. Calyx- 

 segments strapshaped - lanceolate, acute. Corolla three or four 

 four times as long as the calyx ; spur much shorter than the 

 corolla, blunt, making an obtuse angle with the under side of the 

 corolla. Capsule globular, longer than the calyx, opening by two 

 3-valved holes. Seeds ovoid, with obtuse prominent irregularly- 

 parallel waved ridges. Plant glabrous. 



Perfectly naturalized on old walls and sometimes on rocks 

 over the whole of England and the southern half of Scotland. 



[England, Scotland, Ireland.] Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stems numerous, 3 inches to 2 feet long, procumbent when 

 growing on the top, but pendent when on the side of a wall, 

 purplish, succulent. Leaves ^ to 1 inch across, on petioles exceed- 

 ing their own length, lobed so as io resemble miniature ivy-leaves, 

 somewhat fleshy. Peduncles solitary, 1-flowered, very slender. 



