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THE «BRA E 1.6 ot HERBAL. 
Icis fingular, that a ftruéture and form in the capfule of this plant, which could ftrike the com- 
mon obferver fo ftrongly as to obtain a peculiar name, expreffing an imaginary refemblance of the 
head of an animal, fhould not have appeared to this curious and nice obferver of the moft minute 
differences, a mark fufficient for a generical diftinétion. 
DIVISION. TI. 
Common, fmall Snapdragon. 
Antirrhinum vulgare minus. 
The root is long, Mender, white, crooked, 
hard, and furnifhed with a.few fibres. 
The firft leaves are long and narrow: they rife 
in a {mall tuft, and have no footftalks: they are 
undivided at the edges, of a pale yellowifh green, 
and quickly fade when the ftalk rifes. 
The ftalk is round, branched, eight or ten 
inches high, and of a pale green colour. 
The leaves ftand irregularly, and are not very 
numerous: they have no footftalks, and they are 
oblong, narrow, and of a pale green. 
The flowers rife from the bofoms of the leaves 
DIV ESTON= If 
1. Great purple Snapdragon. 
Antirrhinum purpureum majus. 
The root confifts of a great tuft of fibres, 
sifing from a {mall head. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, fmooth, firm, 
tpright, and two foot and a half high; fome- 
times they are branched, fometimes fingle. 
The leaves are numerous and large: they are 
of a pale green, and are long and broad, not at 
all divided or indented at the edges, and of a 
flefhy, thick fubftance. 
The flowers grow in long, loofe fpikes at the 
tops of the ftalks and branches: they are very 
Jarge, and of a beautiful red, fometimes white, - 
and have the {pace between the two lips perfectly 
filled up by a prominent palate. 
The feed-vefiel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous and fmall. 
It is a native of the fouth of France. The 
flowers, in the wild ftate, vary in colour from 
the deepeft purple to the paleft feth colour, and 
even to white. 
J. Bauhine calls it Autirrbinum vulgare. C. 
Bauhine, Autirrbinum majus alterum folio longiore, 
Others, Antirrhinum purpureum. 
2. Great-flowered yellow Snapdragon. 
Antirrbinum flore magno flavo. 
The root is long and large, divided into many 
parts, and furnifhed with a great quantity of 
fibres. 4 
The ftalks are numerous, round, thick, firm, 
upright, and a -yard high ; fometimes branched, 
but more ufually fingle. . 
The leaves are large, of a pale green, and 
hairy : they are broader in proportion to their 
length than in the former fpecies, and have foot- 
flalks. 
‘The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk a ae 
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BRITISH 
SPECIES. 
all the way up the ftalks: they are fmall, and of 
a mixed colour, part red, and part whicifh. 
The feed-veffel is large; and, to a fanciful 
imagination, may eafily be fuppofed to reprefent 
the head of a calf. 
It is common in cornfields, efpecially where 
the foil is poor and fandy : It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Antirrbinum arvenfe minus. 
It is the only fpecies of /napdragon we have 
_properly wild in England. We frequently fee 
the great purple faapdragon upon walls; but that 
is owing to feeds flying up with the wind out of 
gardens: for it grows naturally in warmer climates. 
This fmall frapdragon poffefies the virtues of 
toadflax, but in a very inferior degree, 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
thick, fhort fpike, and are very large, and of a 
beautiful yellow. . 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are {mall 
and round. 
It is a native of the fouth of France, and 
flowers in June. 
“C, Bauhine calls it Antirrbinum Iuteo flore. 
Camerarius, Antirrbinum flore luteo majori. Lin- 
nzus fets this down only as a variety of the 
preceding fpecies; but he errs in this. If 
the colour of the flower were the’ only diffe- 
rence, we fhould agree with him in making it 
no more than a variety, but the leaves differ as 
much as the reft of the plant, and the ex- 
traordinary bignefs of the flower is an ad- 
ditional circumftance: this difference of fize 
would not be regarded in a flower, fingly as a 
mark of a different fpecies, any more than a va- 
riation in colour; but when other circumftances 
eftablith the diftindtion thefe fupport it. 
3. Variegated-flowered Snapdragon. 
Antirrhinum floribus variegatis. 
The root is fmall, crooked, and woody. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, flender, and 
a foot and half high : they are feldom branched, 
and are of a pale whitifh green. ; 
The leaves ftand irregularly, and have no foot- 
flalks: they are long, narrow, fmooth, and of a 
pale green, not at all indented at the edges, fharp-~ 
pointed, and more like the leaves of common 
toadflax than any of the fuapdragons. 
The flowers grow all the way up the ftalks, 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves; and they 
are placed on longifh, lender footftalks: they 
are very beautifully coloured ; the body of the 
flower being of a fnow white, and the edges of a 
gold yellow. 
Tcis a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
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