i3IDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Antirrhinum. 177 



E. B. 502. C. 1. 45. Cymbalaria italica. G. E. 

 530. 



Old walls ; from Italy originally. 



Per. June. 



Herb smooth, shining, often purplish. Sterna very long. Ls. 

 smallest with three lobes, on longish foot-stalks, often purple 

 beneath. Fl. solitary, on simple, axillary stalks, purple ; palate 

 yellow, downy ; spur as long as the cal. pale. €aps, bursting 

 at the top. Seeds wrinkled. 

 The trailing branches of this elegant plant variously interwoven 



form a thick and beautiful kind of tapestry on old walls. 

 Fl. sometimes white. 



A. spurium. Round-leaved Fluellin^ or Sn. Leaves 

 roundish-egg-shaped, downy, chiefly alternate. Stems 

 traiHng, hairy. E. B. 691. C. 3. 37. Veronica 

 foemina. G. E. 6^5. 



Cornfields. Cowley. Southleigh. Sb. Between St. Clement's 



and Cowley Marsh. Between Bullingdon Green, and Shotover 



Hill. Bx. 

 An. July. 

 Ls. on short foot-stalks, broad, (roundish,) pointed, hairy, mostly 



entire. Fl.-stalks axillary, solitary, hairy, single-flowered. Cal. 



segments egg-shaped, pointed. Cor, spur curved back ; the 



upper Up violet, the lower yellow. Ijower fruit-stalks generally 



shorter, upper ones, longer than the Is. 



Fl. of this sometimes monstrous, as in Antir. Linaria, var. Pelo- 

 ria. Seeds of Ant. spurium, and of An. Elatine beautifully covered 

 with net-work. Bx. 



A. Elatine. Sharp-pointed Fluellin^ or Sn. Leaves 

 chiefly halberd-shaped, alternate ; lovi^ermost egg- 

 shaped, opposite. Stems trailing, hairy. E. B. 692. 

 C. 1. 46. Elatine altera. G. E. 625. 



Cornfields, on gravel or chalk. Sm. Headington. Southleighi. 



Sb. Between St. Clement's and Cowley Marsh. Between 



Bullingdon Green and Shotover Hill. Bx. 

 An. July. 

 Stems and general habit resembling Ant. spurium. Cal. segments 



approaching to spear-shaped. Cor. yellow, upper lip violet. 



Fl. occasionally regular, five-cleft, as in Ant. Peloria. 



A quaint case, quoted by Gerarde from Lobel, where this plant 

 proved eminently successful in saving an ulcerated nose, con- 

 demned to be cut off with one consent by divers eminent physi- 

 cians and surgeons. Plant astringent. 



* * Leaves narrower. Stems upright. 



A. repens. Creeping, ■ Sweet-scented, Pale-hlue Toad- 

 jlax. Leaves linear, glaucous, scattered \ partly 



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