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6. A. minus. Least Snapdragon. 



Leaves lanceolate, obtuse, downy, mostly alternate. Stem 

 much branched, spreading. Calyx longer than the spur. 



A. minus. Linn. Sp. PL 852. Willd. v. 3. 25 1 . Fl. Br. 660. Engl. 



Bot. V. 28. t. 201 4. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t.4l. Hook. Scot. 188. 



Fl. Dan. t. 502. 

 A. n. 335. Hall. Hist. u. 1. 145. 

 A. minimum repens. Ger. Em. 549./. 

 A. tertium. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 539. /. Catner. Epit. 922./. 

 A. alterum minimum. Lob. Ic.406.f. 

 Linaria Antirrhinum dictum. Rail Syn. *283. 

 L. arvensis minima. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 85. J. 2. 

 L. minor. Ait. H. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. 16. 



In sandy fields. 



Annual. June — August. 



Root fibrous. Herb erect, much branched, all over downy and 

 viscid, from 4 to 10 or 12 inches high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, tapering at the base into a footstalk, alternate, except 

 occasionally a few of the lowermost. Fl. on long, solitary, axillary 

 stalks, small and inconspicuous ; the tube, upper lip, and very 

 short spur purplish ; lower lip white, with a yellow palate. Caps. 

 ovate, oblique, each cell opening by 3 or 4 short blunt teeth. 

 -Seeds ovate, strongly furrowed, with compressed, prominent, in- 

 termediate ribs. 



The wooden cuts of this species, in the old authors, greatly excel 

 the engraving of Rivinus, which is not accurate in the flowers. 



*** Corolla without a prominent spur^ 



* 7. A. majus. Great Snapdragon, 



Corolla with a rounded prominence at the base. Flowers 

 in a dense cluster. Leaves lanceolate. Segments of the 

 calyx ovate, obtuse. 



A.Vajus. Linn. Sp. PI.-859. Willd. v. 3. 256. Fl. Br. 661. Engl. 



Bot. V. 2. t. 129. Hook. Scot. 1 89. Bull. Fr. t. 277. 

 A. n. 333. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 144. 

 Antirrhinum. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 82./. I. Dod.Pempt.\82.f. Lob. 



Ic. 404./. 

 A. purpureum sive album. Ger. Em. 549./. 

 A. primum et secundum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 537, 538./,/. Ca- 



mer. Epit. 920, 921. f,f. 



On old walls, and chalk cliffs, but supposed not to be indigenous. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Stem branched, leafy, more or less downy and viscid, of a shrubby 

 habit, but generally destroyed by the winter's cold, as is often 

 the root itself. Leaves opposite or alternate on the same plant. 



