346 scROPHULARiACEa:. [Antirrhimm. 



keeping its hold so pertinaciously, and multiplying so fast by seed, as fairly to 

 earn a right to denizenship by this power of occupancy and antiquity of tenure. 



2. A. Orontiwm, L. Lesser Snapdragon or Calfs - snout. 

 " Leaves mostly alternate linear - lanceolate, spikes very few- 

 flowered lax, segments of the calyx leaf-like longer than the 

 coroUa."— 5r. Fl. p. 899. E. B. t. 1155. 



In cultivated fields, amongst corn, turnips, &c., in garden-ground and dry 

 waste places, on sandy, gravelly or chalky soils. Fl. July — November. 0. 



E. Med. — Fields between Lake and Sandown. Garden-ground at Shanklin 

 and Newchurch. A few specimens in a cornfield near Bridge, by Godshill. 

 Near Steephill, Albert Hambrongh, Esq. ! Turnip-field at Nettlestone green. 

 Field by the Wootton river, a little above Kite hill. Fields between Week farm 

 and St. Lawrence, Mr. W. D. Snooke. Waste ground just out of Sandown enter- 

 ing on Royal heath, and in fields between Lake and Sandown. [A frequent weed 

 in the garden of Thatched cottage, Bembridge, Dr. Bell-Salter, Edrs.] 



W. Med. — Field by Sheepwash farm. Freshwater. Turnip-fields about Gurnet 

 farm. By Cockleton, near W. Cowes. [Between Shorwell and Kingstone, 

 A. G. More, Esq., Edrs.] 



Root annual, whitish, tapering and rigid, branching, with a few flexuose fibres. 

 Stem solitary (rarely more), from a span to a foot or 15 inches high, sometimes in 

 rich soil 2 feet and upwards, erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent below, 

 slightly flexuose, simple or more or less branched below the middle, but never so 

 copiously as in A. majus, the branches opposite or alternate ; terete, shining, 

 roughish and somewhat viscid with short, spreading, glandulose hairs above, gla- 

 brous or nearly so below, or clothed with long, fine, simple, spreading pubescence. 

 Leaves on the lower part of the stem mostly opposite, on the higher alternate, a 

 little fleshy and hairy above and along their slightly deflexed or thickened mar- 

 gin, spreading, the floral ones often deflexed, lanceolate or elliptical-lanceolate, 

 sublinear, the lowermost usually broader, obtuse and shortly stalked, the rest more 

 or less pointed and minutely apiculate. Flowers axillary, on very short, stout, 

 erect peduncles, remote, few, forming a lax leafy spike. Calyx foliaceous, its seg- 

 ments exactly resembling the leaves, the 3 superior sepals approximate, the cen- 

 tral one largest ; the two inferior remote from each other, all mostly ascending, at 

 first about equalling the corolla, but soon becoming greatly enlarged, and exceed- 

 ing both that and the capsule in length. Corolla about 6 to 9 lines in length, pur- 

 plish pink or rose-coloured, sometimes white, in both cases streaked with darker 

 veins on the throat and upper lip, the very prominent palate striped or reticu- 

 lated with similar markings ; throat very short, slightly hairy, compressed to a 

 narrow ridge along its upper side, produced beneath posteriorly into a rounded 

 keel-like gibbosity instead of a spur ; upper lip nearly obcordate, deeply emargi- 

 nate, the sinus acute, lobes flattish, ascending, somewhat reflexed, hairy at the 

 back, slightly undulate-crenate ; lotver lip rather shorter than the upper, vaulted 

 or inflated into the semiglobose palate closing the mouth completely, the gibbous 

 summit often tinged with yellow, its inner and posterior surface, which is covered 

 by the upper lip, whitish and villous with long curled hairs, inferior margin 

 deflexed, trifid, the segments entire, the middle one small and narrow-oblong or 

 ligulate, all equal iu length. Stamens nearly equal ; filaments purplish, flattened, 

 glabrous or very nearly so ; anthers cohering, glabrous ; pollen bright yellow. 

 Style whitish, terete and tapering, covered with glandular hairs, inserted obliquely 

 on the very hispid ovary, its apex slightly decurved, subbilobate. Capsule his- 

 pido-pubescent, ovoid-conical, oblique at base and summit, faintly 2-lobed, the 

 lateral furrow nearly straight, dehiscing as in the last by 3 gibbous pores surround- 

 ing the persistent style. Seeds numerous, brownish black or somewhat bronzed 

 under a high magnifier, of a roughly rectangular figure, convex and scutiform at 

 the back and finely punctate, with a narrow dorsal ridge and a thin projecting 

 lateral margin all around ; excavated on the opposite side into a deep cavity tra- 

 versed by a hollow uneven septum at bottom, and having rugged, slightly inflexed, 

 granulato-tubercular edges. 



