176 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Antirrhinum. 



Is., roundish, oval, one at the base of each fruit stalk. Cal., 

 bellying. Cor. pale purple, except the lower lip. The real root 

 fibrous and parasitical. ? 



PEDICULA'RIS.' Louse-wort,* or Red Rattle. 



P. palustris. Marsh L.y Tall R. R. Stem solitary, 

 branched. Calyx egg-shaped, hairy, ribbed, in two 

 unequally notched, crested lobes. E. B. 399. 



Marshes, boggy meadows. Peat bogs on Bullingdon Green. Behind 

 Headington Hill. Southleigh Meadows. Sb. 



Per. June. 



Stem twelve to fifteen inches. Ls. scattered, here and there oppo- 

 site, leaflets winged, wings egg-shaped, notched, with blunt seg- 

 ments. Fl. axillary, solitary, dark-rose-coloured, handsome, 

 fl.-stalks short. Cal., inflated, can hardly be styled five-lobed. 

 Cor. tube white, lip, upper much compressed. Caps., egg- 

 shaped, when ripe, projecting beyond the permanent cal. 

 Plant acrid, not acceptable to cattle. Blossom sometimes white. 



V. sylvdtica. Pasture L.y Dwarf R. R. Stems seve- 

 ral, spreading, simple. Calyx oblong, angular, smooth, 

 in five, unequal, notched segments. E. B. 400. Pe- 

 dicularis. G. E. lOyi. 



Moist, heathy pastures. Shotover Hill. Southleigh Heath. Sb. 



Per. Sm. May. 



Root thick. Stems many, short, three or four inches, central one 

 erect. Ls., alternate, winged, leaflets acutely notched or saw- 

 toothed. Fl.-ls. less compound. From the crown of the root, 

 a circle of egg-shaped, undivided, curved back, notched Is. Fl. 

 axillary, solitary, rose-coloured. Cal. with four larger, and 

 four smaller angles alternately. Cal. nearly half as long as the 

 cor. 

 The expressed juice, an injection in sinuous and fistulous ulcers. 



Fl. Suec. G. E. 



ANTrRRHINUM.3 Toad-flax, or Snap '^-dragon. 



* Leaves dilated. Stems limber. 



A. Gymbalaria. Ivy-leaved Sn. Leaves broadly heart- 

 shaped, five-lobed, alternate, smooth. Stems trailing. 



' From pediculus, a louse. 



2 From a supposed quality of producing scab, and lice, in sheep, which feed 

 on the plant: others say, because the plant destroys lice. Chiefly an Alpine 

 genus. 



3 Anti,a.nd rin, Gr. nostrils ; so called from the seed resembling the nostrils 

 of a heifer. Plin. 



* The corolla when pressed, laterally, between the finger and thumb, gapes, 

 and when let go, elastically recloses. 



