DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Scrophularia. 179 



Sandy fields, Southleigh, Stanton Harcourt. Sh. Between St. 

 Clement's, and Cowley Marsh, Between Bullingdon Green, 

 and the Asylum. Bx. 



An. J^me, 



Root small, zigzag. Stem various in height, leafy. Ls. clammy. 

 Fl. -stalks numerous, axillary, solitary, simple, somewhat longer 

 than the Is. FL small, inconspicuous, purplish, under lip white, 

 three-cleft, palate yellow. Cal. segments unequal, battledore- 

 shaped, with prominent, clammy hairs. Caps, egg-shaped, 

 blunt. Seeds curiously furrowed. 



*** Corolla without a prominent spur. 



A. majus. Great Sn. Corolla with a rounded promi- 

 nence at the base. Flowers in a dense cluster. Leaves 

 spear-shaped. Segments of the calyx, egg-shaped, 

 blunt. E. B. 129. An. purpureum, sive album. 

 G. E. 549. 



Old walls. Sb. New College Lane. Jesus College Walls, &c. 

 R. W. 



Bien. July. 



Stems short, spreading, rod -like, leafy, Fl. -stems twelve to 

 eighteen inches, smooth below, hairy, and clammy above. FL 

 stalks, short, with a concave hract. at their base, and sometimes 

 a pair of narrow-spear-shaped bract, close to the cal. Cal.-ls., 

 brown and clammy on the outside. Cor. rose-coloured, some- 

 times white ; a large, yellow spot on the protuberant part of the 

 under lip. 



A deep crimson var. in gardens. Ls. dark-green, smooth, entire, 

 on short foot-stalks, alternate ; branch-Is. opposite. 

 The plant continues to live long enough to produce flowers, only 



in dry situations. Dioscorides reports two wondrous properties 



of Antirrhinum, the latter of importance, even in the present day ; 



that, hanged about a person, it preserves him from witchery, and 



that it maketh a man gracious in the sight of peo]:)le I G. F. 



SCROPHULA'RIA.' Fig-wort, 



S. nodosa. Knotty-rooted F. Leaves imperfectly heart- 

 shaped, acute; three-nerved at the base. Stem four- 

 cornered. Root tuberous. E. B. 1544, S, major, 

 G. E. 7I6. 



Hedges, ivoods, thickets. 



Per. July. 



Root thick, beset with small knobs. Stem two to three f , upright, 

 simple, leafy. Ls. upper ones nearly stalkless, spear-shaped, 

 lower ones opposite, stalked, saw-toothed, shining, dark-green 



' From supposed virtues of the plant in scrophula. 



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