394 THE SCBOPHULABIA FAMILT. 



Leaves angular or hastate at the base, slightly hairy. Peduncles 



glabrous and slender. Sepals narrow 8. Pointed L. 



Several other species, such as Jj. triphylla, furfv/rea, and hipartUa, culti- 

 vated in our flower-gardens, wUl occasionaUy sow themselves in the vicinity, 

 but soon disappear again. 



1. Common Iiinaria. Iiinaria vulgaris, Moench. 

 {Antirrhinum Linaria, Eng. Bot. t. 658. Toadflax.) 



Bootstock shortly creeping. Stems erect, 1 to 3 feet high, of a glaucous 

 green, and usually glabrous, except a few glandular hairs amongst the 

 flowers. Leaves crowded, linear or narrow-lanceolate. Flowers large and 

 yeUow, forming a short but handsome terminal panicle. Calyx small. 

 Spur of the corolla long and pointed ; the projecting palate of the lower lip 

 of a bright orange-colour, completely closing the tube. Capsule large and 

 ovoid, with numerous rough seeds, surrounded by a narrow, scarious 

 border. 



In hedges, and on the borders of fields, in Europe and Russian Asia, and 

 has been carried out with European crops to other parts of the world. 

 Abundant all over the British Isles, excepting the Scotch Highlands, where 

 it is more rare. Fl. summer and autumn. A singular deformity, called 

 Peloria, occurs sometimes, in which the corollas are regular, vrith 5 spurs. 

 Varieties are also occasionaUy found with smaller flowers, either yellow or 

 striped, and without the border to the seeds. They are very rare, and sup- 

 posed to be hybrids between this and the following species. 



2. Pale Iiinaria. Iiinaria repens, Ait. 

 (Antirrhinum, Eng. Bot. t. 1253.) 



Eootstock slender, and creeping to a considerable extent ; the stems erect 

 or decumbent at the base, from 8 or 10 inches to above 2 feet high, and gla- 

 brous. Leaves crowded or whorled at the base of the stem, scattered in the 

 upper part. Flowers rather small but pretty, and slightly sweet-scented, 

 forming sliort racemes, usually arranged in a terminal panicle. Corolla 

 under 6 lines long, nearly white, but striped with bluish or purple veins ; 

 the spur usually very short and conical, but variable in length. Seeds 

 ■wrinkled, without any scarious border. 



In stony wastes, in southern and central Europe to the Caucasus, scarcely 

 extending into Germany. Rare in Britain, occurring here and there in 

 southern England and Ireland, or further north only as a straggler from 

 gardens, where it was formerly frequently cultivated. Fl. summer and 

 autumn. 



3. Pelisser's Iiinaria. Iiinaria Pelisseriana, DC. 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2832.) 



An erect, glabrous, slender annual, scarcely branched, with very narrow 

 linear leaves, few and distant. Flowers small, in a short terminal raceme ; 

 the coroUa purple, with dark veins, and a long, slender-pointed spur. 



In bushy wastes, and pastures, in western and southern Europe, along the 

 Mediterranean region to the Caucasus, extending here and there into central 

 Europe, and has been gathered in the Isle of Jersey. Fl. June. 



4. Supine Iiinaria. Iiinaria supina, Desf. 

 Perennial stock short, with numerous branches, seldom 6 inches long. 



