252 57. . SOBOPH'UL.VmACBiE. 



Jj. with here and there a 8m£|,ll tooth. — In this species a/nd.the 

 two preceding some of the fl. are often regular with 5 spurs or 

 partially so with 2, 3 or 4. — Gravelly and sandy corn-fields. A. 

 yiL— IX,.. ■ ,;,, ;,^,„., ,, E. 



** Stems erect or rarely diffuse, f Fi., solitary. 



4. L. minor (DeS£) ; I. Unedr^ladcsolate blunt' glandular- 

 pubescent mostly alternate, flv axillary, peduncles 3 times aa long 

 as the cilyx, segments of upper cor.-lip diverging, seeds oblong 

 sulcate. — St. 70. 1.5. — Fl. small ; the tube, upper lip, and spur 

 of the cor. purplish ; lower lip jellowish. St. erect, 4 — 10 in. 

 high, branclied, glandular-pulaescent. Lower 1. nearly spathu- 

 late.— Sandy and gravelly fields. A. VI.— yill. E. S. I. 



tt Fl. racemose. 



[X. Pelisseridna (IMill.); glabrous,!, linear, the lower ternate 

 or quatematej upper alt,erna,te, sterile branches radical prostrate 

 with ternate lanceolate or ovate l.,_7?. racemose, peduncles as long^ 

 as the bracts, sepals linear acute twice as long as the capsule, 

 seeds nearly flat with a fringed wing one side smooth the other 

 tubercular. — E. B.S. 2832.— Fl. purple with darker veins. St, 

 one or more from each root, erect, about a foot high. Caps, 

 bilobed. — Jersey. A. VI.] 



*5. L. supina (Desf.) ; glabrous, rachis ped- and sep. glan- 

 dular-iiairy , 1. liiieai: blunt mostly whorledi sep. linear-spatlmlate 

 shorter than the caps, or spur, seeds smooth nearly flat with a 

 striate wing. — L. maritima DC. Icon. Oall. 12. — ^St. diffuse or 

 ascending. Fl. capitate-racemose, yellow ; throat and spur.with 

 slender purple lines. Style entire. — Plymouth and Poole ; a 

 ballast plant. Perhaps a native atHayle, and St. Blazey's Bav, 

 Cornwall. A. VII. VIII. £. 



[i. purpurea (Mill.) ; glabrous, 1. linear-lanceolate scattered, 

 lower 1. irregularly in fours, fl. narrowly ra,cemose, sep. linear 

 shorter than the caps, and long incurved spur, seeds angular 

 with a network of elevated lines. — ^Fl. purple or yellow with the 

 lips purple ; spur two or three times as long as the ped.' which 

 is usually shorter than the bract. , St. erect, leafy; — Oldi walls; 

 an escape from gardens. P. VII. VIII.] E. 



6. L. repem (Ait.) ; glabrous, 1. linear scattered or partly 

 whorled, fl. racemose, sep. lanceolate as long as the spur but 

 shorter than the caps.,.see(fc angidarwith transverse elevated lines. 

 — L. s,triata DC, R, 1. 1. 423.— Fl. white with blue veins. St. 

 erect, branched, leafy, I — Ig foot high, slender. Seeds inuch. 

 smaller than those of L. vulgaris. — Z. italica and L. sepium may 

 be hybrids between this and L.indgaris. — Calcareous soils, par- 

 licularly near the sea, rare. P. VII. — IX. E. I, 



