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Jura. It reaches a height of about 6600 feet above Lanslebourg in 

 Southern Savoy. It is not infrequent above Argenti^re in Haute- 

 Savoie, whence came the plant figured, and above Zinal. It is 

 probably biennial. 



Linaria striata DC. 



Stem i-ij feet high, glabrous, very leafy. Lower leaves in 

 whorls of 3-4 ; upper ones single, linear-lanceolate, acute. Flowers 

 pale lilac or mauve streaked with violet. Palate yellow, in long, 

 loose, spiked racemes. Spur of corolla straight, obtuse, short. 



Waste, stony places and hillsides, up to 4500 feet in Savoy. 

 June to September. 



Distribution. — Southern Switzerland (very rare), France and 

 Western Europe from the Pyrenees to Germany, Scandinavia and 

 Dalmatia. 



Linaria minor Desf, L. viscida Moench. 



This small glandular-pubescent annual species, with minute pale 

 yeUow and mauve flowers, is sometimes seen as a weed between the 

 metals of railways and other waste places in sub-alpine France and 

 Switzerland, just as it appears in the plains of those countries and 

 in England. 



SCROPHULARIA L. Figwort. 



Rather tall herbs, with flowers in panicled cymes, small, greenish 

 purple, yellow or violet. Corolla 2-lipped, not spurred. Tube 

 ventricose. Stamens 4, with a scale representing the 5th. Stigma 

 notched. Capsule ovoid, acute. 



About 120 species inhabiting Europe, temperate Asia, Africa, 

 and N. America. 



Scrophularia canina L. 



Plant 1-2J feet high, glabrous, nearly simple, with a loose- 

 branched glandular panicle of small flowers which are reddish brown 

 mixed with white. Upper lip of corolla one- third as long as the 

 tube. Leaves pinnatifid. 



Stony places, dry beds of- mountain torrents, and debris, here and 

 there in Switzerland, commoner in Southern France. July, August. 



Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe, Corsica, Asia Minor, 

 N. Africa. 



Scrophularia Hoppei Koch. 



Closely allied to the last. The upper lip of corolla longer, i.e. more 

 than half as long as the tube. Flowers reddish brown, with white 

 margin. Anthers bright orange-coloured. Leaves pinnatifid or 

 pinnate. Segments inciso-dentate, deeper and broader than in the 

 last. 



