328 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA 



If this efFedl really follows, it is more probably ow- 

 ing to the poverty of the foil where the plants 

 grow, than to any particular quality in the plants 

 themfelves. 



ANTIRRHINUM. Gen. pL 750. 

 Col. 5-phyllus, Corolla bafis deorfum prominens, 

 nedarifera. Caps, 2-locularis. 



* Foliis alt ern'is flor thus calcaratis, 

 linaria i. ANTIRRHINUM foliis lanceolato-linearibus con- 

 fertis, caule ere6to, fpicis terminalibus fefTilibus, 

 floribus imbricatis. Sp. pi. 858. Ger. em. 550./. 

 I. Rivin. /. 83. Blackwell t. 115O 

 Common yellow Toad-flax j^nglis. 

 On the borders of corn-fields in many places, as in 

 Strath-Tay^ and between Dunkeld and Blair ^ ^c. 

 %. VIII. 

 The llalk is 3 or 4 feet high, and often branch'd. 

 The leaves finooth and glaucous : the flowers 

 are yellow, and grow in fpikes, at the tops of 

 the (lalk and branches. The palate of the Corolla 

 is hairy and orange -color'd. 

 P peloria. There is a variety of this plant fometimes found, 

 the Corolla having from two to five fpurs, and the 

 lirnb aiTuming a regular pentapetalous appear- 

 ance ; but this is only a monftrous luxuriance, 

 as is evident from both kinds being upon the 

 fame plant, (vid.fig. Am^n. acad. I. 282. /. 3.) 

 An ointment made of the leaves flands recommend- 

 ed as a cure for the piles. 

 This is the only fpecies of Antirrhinum that I ob- 

 ferv'<l growing wild in Scotland. SCRO- 



