132 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Antinhinutn. 



Linaria Elatine dicta, folio subrotundo. Rail Syn. *282. 

 L. spuria. Ait. H. Kew. ed,2.v. 4. II. 

 Elatine. Riv. Monop. Irr. t.SQ.fA. Dill. Gen. U&.t. 6. 

 Veronica fcemina. Fuchs. Hist. 167. f. Ger.Em.625.f. Matth. 

 f^algr.v.2.55.f. Gamer. Epit. 462. f. 



In corn-fields, but rare. 



About London rave. Curtis. Frequent in Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. 

 Hampshire. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. At Seething, Norfolk. 

 Mrs. Kett. At Binham. Mr. Crowe. In Shepey island. Mr. 

 Sowerby. In Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Mr. Purton. 



Annual. July — September. 



The whole herb is downy, or finely hairy. Root fibrous, small. 

 Stems spreading and procumbent, branched, leafy. Leaves on 

 short stalks, ovate, either blunt or acute, entire, except an oc- 

 casional notch or two, mostly alternate, a few of the lowermost 

 only being opposite. Fl. on slender, simple, axillary stalks. Cat. 

 with ovate segments, enlarged after flowering, downy. Cor. 

 with a recurved spur, the length of its tube, and of the same 

 pale greenish hue ; upper lip short, violet ; lower yellow, with 

 an orange palate. Abortive stamen minute, shapeless, in the 

 arch of the upper lip. Dillenius, after Rivinus, very rightly ob- 

 serves that the capsule opens by an oblique deciduous segment 

 over each cell, by which they characterize their genus Elatine; 

 but which is only one of those slight differences, that confirm a 

 too much neglected maxim of Linnseus, " there are few genera 

 in which some part or other of the fructification is not subject to 

 aberration."' 



I have specimens, found by the late Sir John CuUum, having some 

 regu\cir flowers with 5 spurs, and others partly so, with only 2. 

 Sometimes, Hudson says, there are 3 or 4. See A. Linariabere- 

 after. 



3. A. Elatine. Sharp-pointed Fluellin, or Snapdragon. 



Leaves chiefly halberd -shaped, alternate ; lowermost ovate, 

 opposite. Stems procumbent, hairy. 



A. Elatine. Linn. Sp. PI. 8.5 1 . Willd. v. 3. 234. Fl. Br. 658. 



Engl. Bot. V. 10. t. 692. Curt. Lond. fasc. 1 . t.46. Fl. Dan. 



t.426. Ehrh.IIerb. 128. 

 A. n. 340. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 146. 



Linaria Elatine dicta, folio acuminate. Raii Syn. *282. 

 L. Elatine. Ait. H. Ken-, ed. 2.v.4.]\. 

 Elatine. Matth. Valgr. v. 2.360. f. Gamer. Epit. 754. f. 

 E. altera. Ger. Em. 625. f. 

 E. fcemina, folio anguloso. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 372./. 



In corn-fields after harvest, on a gravelly or chalky soil. 



Annual. July — September. 



Like the last in general habit and characters, except being more J 



