13S ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES V— LIN ARIA PELISSERI AN A. Mill 



Plate DCCCCLIX 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXXIII. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsice. No. 280. 

 Antirrhinum Pelisseriauuin, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 855. 



Annual. Stems few, the barren ones very short and decumbent, 

 the flowering ones erect. Leaves of tbe barren shoots opposite 

 or in whorls of three, oval or elliptical, attenuated into indistinct 

 petioles ; those on the flowering-stem scattered, or sometimes the 

 lower in whorls of three, sessile, strapshaped, entire. Flowers 

 few, in a rather dense raceme, which lengthens after flowering. 

 Pedicels about as long as the calyx. Calyx-segments linear- 

 subulate, glabrous. Corolla scarcely three times as long as the 

 calyx ; spur nearly as long as the corolla, acute, straight, in a line 

 with tbe under side of the corolla. Capsule sub-globular, rather 

 shorter than the calyx, each of the 2 valves splitting into 3 seg- 

 ments. Seeds shining, sub-orbicular, surrounded by a broad plano- 

 convex fimbriated wing. Plant slightly glaucous, wholly glabrous. 



On the slope of a hill facing tbe south, amongst Ulex Europa^us, 

 by the side of a road leading from a water-mill, near St. Ouen's 

 Pond to tbe junction of the road up to St. Peter's Barracks, Jersey, 

 where it was discovered by Professor Babington in 1838, and was 

 again gathered in tbe same station by Mr. T. B. Flower in 18G5. 



Channel Islands. Annual. Summer. 



Flowering-stem slender, erect, 6 to 18 inches high ; barren 

 sterns very short, with the leaves ^ to ^ inch long, those on the 

 flowering-stem f to 1^ inch. Flowers 3 to 6, at first almost 

 in a head, then separating into a raceme. Corolla about £ inch long, 

 purple with darker veins, with the palate paler. Capsule \ inch 

 long, sub-didymous. Seeds black, with the border cut into fine 

 hair-like segments. 



Jersey Toadflax. 



French, Linaira de la 1'ilksier. 



SPECIES VI— LIN ARIA PURPUREA. Mi'/. 

 Plate DCCCCLX. 

 Antirrhinum purpureum, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 853. 



Biennial or perennial, with the rootstock not creeping. Stems 

 usually numerous from the crown of the rootstock; all erect, 



