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DIV.IS TON I 
1. Yellow, trifoliate Toadflax: 
Linaria trifoliata flava. 
The reot is long, flender, whitifh, and fur- 
nifhed with numerous fibres: 
The ftalks are flender, upright, , numerous, 
and a foot and half high: they are of a pale yel- 
lowith green, and ufually run up fingle, without 
any divifions into branches. 
The leaves are numerous, broad, fhort, of a 
dufky. green, and they have no footftalks. 
They grow irregularly, but moft frequently 
three from ane place: from this it obtained the 
name of ¢rifoliate toadflax 5 but tho’ moft of the 
leaves grow in this manner: there are frequently 
fome that fland in pairs, and commonly a good 
number that grow fingly toward the top of the 
Ftalk. 
The fowers are large and beautiful: they are 
of a mixt yellow, and have long, ‘fharp fpurs. 
The feed-veffel is round, and the feed is 
blackifh. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lineria triphyllos minor Iu- 
tea. Others, from Clufius, Linarea valentina. 
2. Four-leaved Toadflax. 
Linaria quadrifolia. 
The root is frnall, long, whitith, and divided : 
it has many fibres, and partly by them, partly 
by its own divifions, fpreads a great way under 
the'furface. - : 
The {talks are numerous, flender, weak, and 
a foot long. 
‘They lie in partupon the ground, andin part raife 
themfelves, but feebly and in an irregular manner. 
The leaves are numerous, and placed with 
great regularity : four rife from the fame fpot al] 
the way up the ftalk, and thefe’ feveral fours are 
kept at pretty large diftances. 4 
The leaves are feparately longith, narrow, un- 
divided at the edges, fharp at the Points, without 
footftalks, and of a pale green, 
The flowers’ are large and ofa pale yellow, 
and they ftand in clufters at the tops of the 
ftalks. 
The feed-veflel is large and rounded; and the 
feeds are fmall and black. 
It, is a native of Spain, Italy, and Germany, 
and fpreads at random over a great deal of their 
dty, barren grounds. It flowers iri Jane. 
C. Baubine calls it Linaria quadrifolie- luton, 
Columna, Lizaria tetraphylla luted miner, We, 
Four-leaved toadflax. 
3. Low, purple Toadfax, 
Linaria purpurea procumbens, 
The root is compofed of a multitude of thick, 
irregular, white, and woody fibres : ‘they rife 
from a fmall-head, and {pread themfelves far un- 
der the furface. 
The ftalks are very numerous, 
rifing from the fame head of the 
round, flender, 2 
twenty or more 
Toot: they are 
weak, and of a pale colour: 
Tid 
on the ftalk: they are long 
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they lié fpread upon the ground about a third 
part of their length, and rife irregularly up the 
reft, 
The leaves are very finall, and very numerous: 
they ftand thick, and perfectly irregularly upon 
the ftalks, and are of a bluifh green: they have 
no footftalks, and they are undivided at the 
edges, narrow, aud pointed at the ends: 
The flowers ftand in long and thick fpikes at 
the tops of the ftalks and branches, and are of 
a deep purple: they are fmall, but very pretty ; 
fometimes they are paler and reder, fornetimes 
perfectly blue ; but their molt conftant and natu- 
ral colour is purple. 
The feed-veflels are fmall, and the feeds are 
very {mall and black. 
It isa native of Spain and of fome parts of 
Germany ; and flowers in Auguft. Ir is moftly 
found on hills near {prings. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lineria ceeruleg repens. O- 
thers, Litaria purpurea, and Ofris purpuro ce- 
rulea repens. 
4« Stellated Toadflax. 
Stellatis foliis feellatis. 
The root is very fender, 
nifhed with {mall fibres, 
The ftalks are flender, weak, and of a pale 
green, fometimes redith : they ftand but weakly 
upright, and feldom are ftrait; and there general- 
ly lie feveral others about the root, which fpread 
on the ground, and are fuller of leavés,. though 
they bear no flowers, ; ? 
The leaves are longifh, narrow, undivided at 
the edges, pointed at the ends, and of a pale afh’ 
coloured green : they grow round the ftalks, in 
the manner of thofe of the ftellate plants, like 
the rowels of a fpur, or the rays of a ftar, as 
they are commonly reprefented. 
There are ufually five Principal. leaves at a 
joint, and often fome fmall ones from their bo- 
foms. \ 
Toward the tops of the Principal ftalks which 
bear the flowers they grow wi 
often fingly, and fometimes th 
irregularly divided, 
The flowers fland at the tops of the ftalks in 
long, thick fpikes: they are yellow, and like 
thofe of the common toadflax, only fmaller, 
The feed-vefel is large and round, the feeds 
are fmall and brown. ~ . . 
It is a native of Sicily, and flowers in July. 
Boccone calls it Linaria frula multicaulis mole 
Sinis folio. Others, Linari 
aia foliis. quinisy or Zoad- 
Jax with leaves five'at q Joint, 
divided, and far- 
th lefg regularity, 
ey are in this pare 
Hp Purple-mouthed Toadflax.. ; 
Linaria Shore abefednte rigiy pirpureo, 
The Toot is long, flender, white, hard, ‘and 
hung with numerous fibres, i - 
The ftalks are round, thick, firm,: upright. 
but little branched, and two feet highs. A 
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leaves are numerous, and ftand irregularly 
and narrow, Tefembling 
that 
