^^^ ■ ^XII. SCEOPIIULARIACE^. [Lindria. 



10, LiNARiA Juss. Toadflax. 

 Cal. 5-partite. Cor. personate, spurred at tbe base • its 

 mouth closed by a projecting palate. Caps, ventrlcose, 2-cel!e(] 

 opening by valves or teeth. — N"amed from Linum, fiax, winch 

 the leaves of some species resemble. 



* Stems and branches trailing. Pedicels axillary, elongated. 



1. L. *Cymbaldria Mill. {Ivy -leaved T.) ; leaves cordate 

 S-lobed palmate-nerved alternate glabrous, stems trailing 

 Antirrhinum L. : E. B. t. 502. ^' 



On old walls, in many places ; the outcast of gardens. %. 5__f) 

 • Stem very long, filiform. Leaves petioled, often purple beneath' 

 Flowers small, pale blue, or purplish. 



2. L. spuria Mill, (round-leaved T.) ; leaves ovate downy 

 feather-nerved mostly alternate, branches trailing, peduncles 

 hairy, cor. with a subulate curved spur. Antirrhinum L . 

 £:. B. t. 691. 



Sandy corn-fields, mostly confined to the east and south-east of 

 England. Abundant in many parts of Norfolk and Suffolk. Bristol 

 0. 7— II Flowers small, yellowish; Bpper lip purple. Cal laro-g ' 



segments ovate-lanceolate, the outer ones, sometimes all, cordate at 

 the base. 



3. L. Elciiine Desf. (sltarp-poiiited Fluellen, or T.) ; leaves 

 broadly hastate acute feather-nerved, lowermost ovate opposite 

 branches trailing hairy, peduncles Jjlabrous, cor. with a subulate 

 straight spur. Antirrhinum Z. : E. B. t. 692. 



Corn-fields in a dry, gravelly, or chalkv soil, England. 0. 7_i i J <brt racei 



--Similar to the last, yet distinct, smaller in all its parts. Sepal's I ate twice 



lanceolate, very acute never cordate. f,|ij jg^o] 



** Stems erect, descending or diffuse. 



4. L . repens A\t. {creeping pale -Hue T.) ; glabrous, leaves 

 linear whorled or scattered, flowers racemose, sepals lanceolate 

 glabrous the length of the spur but shorter than the capsule 

 seeds angular transversely wrinkled, stems erect. Antirrhinum 

 Z. ; E. B. t. 12o3. Lin. striata JD C. 



Chalky banks and rocky places near the sea, rare; principally in | ^■^■*^i 



the soutn of England, Soi.th Wales, and Ireland. Naturalized near |»fecene 



Colzean Ayrshire and Musselburgh, Scotland. %. 7-9. - Stems Ptrtbt 



1 to 1 2 foot high slender, branched. Leaves somewhat whorled, below, 1 1^^^.,, 



but there soon dying away Flon,ers in panicled racemes, whitish or K^^ 



pale violet, with darker violet lines ; palate yellow. (Between this Uft 



and the next species hybrids are occasionally formed in Hants and ' '^''' 



.Cornwall : those which have the seeds of the next, yellow flowers, ^ 



and intermediate sepals, have been called L. Bauhini and L. Italka ''•« 

 by Bnt.sh collectors. The true L. Italica is itself connected with - ' 



L. repens by several intermediate forms.) • - 



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