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simple or branched. Leaves scattered, the lower ones often in 

 whorls of 3 to 6 ; all sessile, strapshaped, entire. Flowers very 

 numerous, in a dense raceme, which elongates much after flowering. 

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

 subulate, glabrous. Corolla about four times as long as the calyx ; 

 spur nearly as long as the corolla, acute, curved, making an 

 obtuse angle with the under side of the corolla. Capsule sub- 

 globular, half as long again as the calyx, each valve splitting 

 into 3. Seeds oblong, attenuated towards the base, triquetrous, 

 without a wing, covered with a network of strongly elevated lines. 

 Plant glaucous and glabrous. 



On old walls. Naturalized in many places in England and the 

 South of Scotland. 



[England, Scotland.] Biennial or Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Pootstock almost woody but not creeping, short-lived but 

 generally flowering more than once. Stems stout, 18 inches to 

 4 feet high. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, generally scattered, except 

 at the base, where they are more or less distinctly whorled, the 

 number in the whorl varying greatly. Corolla f inch long without 

 the spur, deep bluish-purple, the tube striped with darker purple. 

 Capsule sub-didymous, about the size of a white-mustard seed. 

 ?ceds minute, black, shaped like one of the segments of an orange. 



Purple Toadflax. 



French, Linaire Purpurine. 



SPECIES VII— LIN ARIA RE PENS. Mill. 



Plate DCCCCLXI. 



Jieick Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXXIV. Fig. 2. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 58. 



Linaria (striata, B.C. Benth. in D. C. Prod. p. 278. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 



ed. ii. p. C01. Or. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 579. Reich, fit 1. c. 

 Autirrhiuum repens, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1253. 

 A. repens et A. Monspessulanum, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 584. 



Perennial. Pootstock creeping. Stems several or numerous 

 from the crown of the rootstock, all erect, usually branched. 

 Leaves scattered, the lower ones in whorls of 4 to G ; all sessile, 

 strapshaped or elliptical - strapshaped, entire. Flowers rather 

 numerous, in a rather dense raceme, which elongates much after 

 flowering. Pedicels longer than the calyx. Calyx-segments strap- 

 shaped-triangular, glabrous. Corolla three or four times as long 



