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access to the honey. For such insects, however, the 

 flower is admirably arranged. When they have opened 

 the door they find on each side of the lower lip a band 

 or ribbon of close orange-coloured hairs, between which 

 is a clear space leading directly to the honey. The fruit 

 is a capsule. The cells of the outer wall are thickened, 

 and contract more than the inner layer. The result is 

 that the walls curve outwards, thus opening the upper 

 end of the capsule. The seeds are jerked out by the 

 wind ; they are brown or black, somewhat rounded in 

 form, with a notch at the base, laterally compressed, 

 winged, and finely reticulate. The plant is glabrous, 

 pubescent and glandular above. In some cases there 

 are traces of the posterior stamen. 



L. minor. — The arrangement is much the same as in 

 the last species, but the parts are smaller, and no doubt 

 adapted to smaller insects. They are not, however, 

 much visited. 



L. supina has glaucous and glabrous yellow flowers, 

 but the plant is pubescent-glandular above. 



L. spuria has a trailing stem, with leaves orbicular 

 or nearly so. The upper lip is purplish brown, the lower 

 lip yellowish. Some of the lower flowers are cleisto- 

 gamous, and these are said to be more numerous in 

 shade. The stem has two sorts of hairs, long and soft, 

 and short and glandular. 



L. Cymbalaria also has the stem trailing. The leaves 

 are ivy-shaped ; the flowers lilac with a yellowish palate. 

 They stand up in the sunlight, but when they fade the 

 flower-stalk turns down and inserts the growing seed- 

 pod, if possible, into some hole or crevice. The seeds 

 are globular and longitudinally ridged. The plant is 

 quite glabrous. Like Antirrhinum majus, it is not a 

 native, but an alien found on old walls. 



L. Elatine. — ^A corn-field weed, the short stem bearing 

 long prostrate slender branches ; hairy as in L. spuria. 



L. repens. — A rare plant, but occasionally found in 

 waste places. It is quite glabrous, and is a perennial 

 with many slender creeping stems. 



