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upon long slender stalks, small, yellow, with tlie upper lip 

 purple.— Corn-fields. A. Vn.— IX. Fluellin. E.I. 



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

 peduncles hairy. — E. B. 691. — 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. 



** Stems erect or rarely diffuse, t Fl. solitary. 



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

 puhescent mostly alternate, fl. axillary, peduncles 3 times as 

 long as the calyx, segments of upper cor.-lip diverging, seeds 

 oblong sulcate. — E. B. 2014. — Fl. small ; the tube, upper lip, 

 and spur of the cor. purplish ; lower lip yellowish. St. erect, 

 4 — 10 in. high, branched, glandidar-pubesoent. Lower 1. 

 nearly spathulate. — Sandy and gravelly fields. A. VI. — ^VIII. 



E. S. I. 



tt Fl. racemose. 



[Z. Pelisseridna (Mill.) ; glabrous, 1. linear, the lower ternate 

 or quaternate, upper alternate, sterile branches radical prostrate 

 with ternate lanceolate or ovate 1., Ji. 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. '2SS2. — Fl. purple with darker 

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

 Caps, bilobed. — Jersey. A. V.] 



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

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

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

 striate wing. — Sy. E. B. 858. L. maritima DC. Icon. Gall. 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 at 

 Hayle, and St. Blazey's Bay, Cornwall. A. VII. VIII. E. 



*6. L. purpurea (WiW.) ; glabrous, 1. linear-lanceolate scat- 

 tered, lower 1. irregidarly in fours, fl. narrowly racemose, sep. 

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

 angular with a network of elevated lines. — Sy. E. B. 960. — Fl. 

 purple or yellow with the lips purple ; spur two or three times 

 as long as the ped. which is usually snorter than the bract. 

 St. erect, leafy.— Old waUs. Naturalized. P. VII. VIII. E. 



