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as the calyx ; spur three or four times shorter than the corolla, 

 blunt, straight, making a very ohtuse angle with the under side 

 of the corolla. Capsule suh-glohular, half as long again as the 

 calyx, each valve again splitting into 3. Seeds ohlong, attenuated 

 towards the hase, triquetrous, without a wing, covered with a 

 network of strongly elevated lines. Plant glaucous and glabrous. 



On banks, waste places, and by roadsides. Rather rare. In 

 the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Hants, Sussex, Berks, Beds, 

 Oxon, Gloucester, and Carmarthen. Kerry, Cork, and Carlow, 

 Ireland. In Scotland, it occurs in Ayrshire and Forfarshire, but 

 no doubt introduced. It was formerly abundant on the debris of 

 Salisbury Craigs, Edinburgh, but evidently not native there. 



England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Rootstock creeping and branched. Stem rather wiry, 1 to 3 

 feet high, often decumbent at the base. Leaves very numerous, 

 ^ to \\ inch long, variable in breadth, often in verticels of 4 or 5 

 or even 6 at the base of the stem and on the barren shoots. 

 Plowering-stem often branched, so that the inflorescence becomes 

 a lax panicle. Mowers f inch long without the spur, white tinged 

 with lilac, striped with purplish-blue, the stripes sometimes 

 anastomosing; palate usually with a yellow spot in the middle. 

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

 Seeds minute, shaped like those of L. purpurea, but more truncate 

 at the apex. 



This species is sometimes confounded with L. purpurea, but it 

 is a smaller and more slender plant, with a distinctly creeping 

 rootstock ; the calyx-segments are broader, and the flowers are 

 fewer, smaller, and nearly white striped with lilac, and the spur 

 acute, not half the length of that of L. purpurea and not curved. 



Striped Toadflax. 



French, Linaire a Racine rampanie. 



SPECIES VIII— L INARIA VULGARIS. Mill. 

 Flates DCCCCLXII. DCCCCLXIII. DCCCCLXIV. 

 Antirrhinum Linaria, Linn. Sin. Eug. Bot. Nos. 658, 260. 



Perennial. Rootstock creeping. Stems several or solitary from 

 the nodes of the rootstock ; all erect, simple or branched. Leaves 

 all scattered in irregular whorls of 3 towards the base ; all sessile, 

 strapshaped, elliptical-strapshapcd, or narrowly-elliptical, entire. 

 Flowers numerous, in a dense raceme, which elongates slightly after 



