-or paler blue, and often white. 
that» of the common toadflax, but fharper at the 
point, and longer in proportion to their breadth: 
their colour is a frefi green, and they have no 
footftalks, 
The flowers ftand in fpikes at the tops of the 
ftalks, and they are large and beautiful: they are 
whitifh, except the opening, which is of a beau+ 
tiful purple. 
Tt is a native of Italy, and flowers ih July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Linaria pallida viflu purpn- 
reo. Dillenius, and others, Linaria flore albi- 
cante, 
6. Indented-leaved Toadflax, 
Linaria foliis dentatis. 
The root is long, and furnifhed with many 
fibres. - 
The firft leaves are large; they rife in a thick 
tuft, and they remain when the ftalk is rifen, 
which is the cafe of few others of the toadflax 
kind. 
They are long, broad, of a beautiful green, 
and have no footftalks: they are narroweft at the 
bafe, broadeft toward the end, and indented at 
the edges. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre of thefe, and is 
‘round, firm, upright, and a foot and half high: 
it is of a pale green, and fometimes branched. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are not 
fo numerous as on moft of the others: they are. 
Jong and narrow, and they have no footftalks ; 
-thofe toward the bottom of the ftalk ate like the 
radical leaves, but narrower and more deeply , 
dented ; thofe higher up are much deeper divided, 
and toward the top of the ftalk they confift only 
of two fide-divifions and a long point, 
The flowers ftand in flender {pikes at the tops 
of the branches: they are fmall, and of a deeper 
The feed-veffels are large and round. 
“It isa native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Linaria bellidis folio. O- 
‘thers, Linaria odorata, and Ofjris odorata purpu. 
rea, or Linaria odorata purpurea. seo 
7. Little, blue Toadflax. 
Linaria pufilla caerulea. , 
The root is fmall and flender, and has but few 
fibres. ; 
Gos ee 
The SBR 6 Hl Fp ipip Gy eae 
Neue Ss 
Tit 
The firft leaves are pinnated, fmall, and beau- 
tiful: they are not Very numerous: they ftand on 
long footftalks, and each confifts of about three 
pairs of pine, which are fmall, oval, and not 
at all indented. ; 5 
The ftalks. are flender, ereét; and fix or eight 
inches high: they aré not at all branched, and are 
of a pale yellowith green. 
The leaves on them are few, and ftand alters 
nately: they are long, narrow, fharp-pointed, 
not at all indented at the edges, and of a pale 
green: they have no footftalks, and they grow 
More pointing upwards than thof of the gene- 
tality of the other fpecies, 
The flowers ftand in fpikes at the tops of the 
ftalks, and are large and blue. 
The feed-veffel is {mall and, round; and the 
feeds are large and blackith. 
It is a native of the fouth of France, and 
flowers in May. ‘ a 
Lobel calls it Linaria annua Durpuro ceruleas 
Others, Linaria minor cerulea: 
8. Blue trifoliate Toadflax; 
Linaria trifolia cerulea, 
This is a very elegant little plant, and differ. 
ent from the larger trifoliate kind, not only in 
the colour of the flowers, but in the whole face - 
and afpedt, z 
The root is long, flender, 
hung with a few fibres, 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, 
eight or ten inches high, ; 
The Jeaves are broad and fhort on the lower . 
part of the ftalk, and fomewhat longer and nar- 
rower upwards : they ftand by threes, and have 
no footftalks: their colour is a pale green, and. 
they are not at all indented at the edges, 
The flowers ftand in thick, fhore {pikes at the 
tops of the ftalks, and are fmall, and of a beau- 
tiful blue. 
The'feed-veffels are large and roundifh, 
The feeds are fmall and black. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers early in 
fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls it. Linarig tryphylla cerulea. 
Columna, Lizaria ceruleg apula. Ney Blue tri- 
Soliate toadflax. 4 
crooked, hard; and 
and about 
IY, ; 
SNAPDRAGON, 
ANTIRRHINU™M. 
FYSHE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and has the labiated fhapeé: it is formed into a tube, 
The upper lip is divided into two parts, and turned 
at the edges: the lower lip is divided into three parts; and the palate is large, 
between the two lips. The cup is formed of a fingle leaf; divided into five pa 
the flower is fallen: the feed-vefel is a fingle capfule, of an ifregular form, 
the head of a calf, whence the plant has an Englith 
lips and a palate, and it has no fpur. 
the feeds are ripe. © 
Linnzus places. this among his didynamia angiofpermia ; there being t 
threads in the flower ; and the feeds being’contained in'a capfule. 
He makes this and the /izaria the fame genus, as before 
of the fpur of the flower, 
‘ 
two 
back 
and fhuts up the fpace 
tts, and remains when 
refembling in fome degree 
name, calfs fnout, and it opens obliquely when 
wo longer and ‘two fhorter 
obferved ; but the diftin@ion, inthe want 
and the peculiar fhape of the feed-veflel, is evident, 
It 
