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straight, peduncles glabrous, st. procumbent. — Antirrhinum Sm., 

 E, B. 692. St. 70. 11. — Fl. solitary, axillary, upon long slender 

 stalks, small, vellow, with the upper lip purple.^Gravelly and 

 chalky corn-fields. A. VII.— IX. E. I. 



3. L. spuria (Mill.) ; I. roundish-ovate, spur curved upwards, 

 peduncles hairy, st. procumbent.— .4nii»-rA. Sm., E. B. 691. St. 

 70. 12. — Fl. similar to the last but larger. L. with here and 

 there a small tooth. — In this species and 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. VII.— IX. E. 



4. L. minor (Desf.); I. linear-lanceolate obtuse-glandular- 

 pubescent mostly alternate, fl. solitary axillary, peduncles 3 times 

 as long as the calyx, segments of the upper lip diverging, seeds 

 oblong sulcate. — Antirrhinum Sm., E. B. 2014. St. 70. 15. — 

 Fl. small ; the tube, upper lip, and spur of the cor. purplish ; 

 lower lip yellowish. St. erect, 4 — 10 in. high, branched, glan- 

 dular-pubescent. — Sandy and gravelly fields. A. VI.^ — -VIII. 



[5. L.Pelisseriana {MiW.); glabrous, 1. linear, the lower temate 

 or quaternate upper alternate, sterile branches radical prostrate 

 with temate lanceolate or ovate 1., ^. racemose, peduncles as long 

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

 seeds discoidal with a fimbriated wing smooth externally tuber- 

 cular within. — 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.] 



*6. L. supina (Desf.) ; glabrous, rachis ped. and Sep. glan- 

 dular-hairy, 1. linear blunt mostly whorled, Sep. linear-spathulate 

 shorter than the caps, or spur, seeds smooth discoidal with an 

 orbicular striated margin. — L. maritima DC. Icon. Gall. 12. — 

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

 lines. Style entire. — Catdown Quarries, Plymouth ; and Poole, 

 Dorset; a ballast plant. Perhaps a native at Hayle, and St. 

 Blazey's Bay, Cornwall. A. VII. VIII. E. 



[L. purpurea [MSy.); glabrous, 1. linear-lanceolate scattered, 

 lower 1. irregularly in fours, fl. narrowly racemose, 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 longer than the ped. which 

 is usually shorter than the bract. St. erect, leafy. — Old walls : 

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



7. h. repens (Ait.) ; glabrous, 1. linear scattered or partly 

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

 shorter than the caps., seeds angular with transverse elevated lines. 

 —E. B. 1253. L. striata DC, Koch, R. 1. 1. 423.— Fl. white with 



