Linaria.] scROPHULARiACEiE. 347 



VI. LiNAEiA, Tourn. Toadflax. 



t Stems erect. Leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly scattered, sessile. 

 § Inflorescence racemose or subspicate. 



" Calyx 5-partite. Corolla personate, spurred at the base ; its 

 mouth closed by a projecting palate. Capsule ventricose, 2-ceUed, 

 opening by valves or teeth." — Br. Fl. 



1. L. vulgaris, Moench. Common Yellow Toadflax. " Gla- 

 brous, leaves linear-lanceolate scattered crowded, flowers race- 

 mose imbricated, sepals ovate acute glabrous shorter than the 

 capsule or spur, seeds tubercular-scabrous surrounded by a smooth 

 wing, stems erect." — Br. Fl. p. 300. Antirrhinum Linaria, L. : 

 E. B. t. 658. 



/3. Corolla milk-white, with the palate deep orange. 



y. Palate very pale yellow, almost white. 



8. Corolla with 5 or 6 spurs at the base. Peloria, Curt. Fl. Land. E. B. t. 

 260. 



Var. ? £. Leaves broader ; flowers larger, and as well as the pedicels smooth. 

 An L. speciosa. Ten. ? 



In hedges, borders of fields, waste ground and by roadsides ; everywhere com- 

 mon. Fl. July — September. %. 



p. In a field-hedge between Werior farm and the high road from Newport to 

 Cowes. Between Cockleton and Gurnet bay. 



y. About Koyal heath, &c. ; not uncommon in the island generally. 



S. A single specimen in the marahy meadows between Newchurch and Alver- 

 stone, facing a cottage called Burnt house, Oct. 1842. Some of the flowers with 

 5, others with 6 spurs. I found some plants between Morton house and Alver- 

 stone bearing a few flowers with deft spurs ; in one flower there were 2 spurs each 

 so divided, but no multiplication of any other part of the corolla. 



e. Under the wooded shore a little W. of Eyde towards Binstead. 



Root whitish, tapering, flexuose, simple or branched, often creeping, subligneous. 

 Stem from about 1 to 2 feet in height, solitary or several, erect, sometimes 

 decumbent or ascending at base, glaucous or purplish, glabrous or beset with a 

 few short glandulose hairs, terete, obscurely furrowed, simple or branched above, 

 sometimes copiously so, the branches erect or ascending, usually overtopped by 

 the main stem and its spike of flowers. Leaves sessile, quite glabrous, scattered, 

 crowded, from 1 to 2^ inches long and about 1 to 2 or 3 lines broad, deflexed or 

 recurved on the inferior part of the stem, more distant and spreading above, with 

 short leafy shoots in their axils ; all linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, subglaucous 

 or sometimes purplish, a little fleshy and oblique, their margins somewhat thick- 

 ened and deflexed, 3-ribbed, the midrib very prominent beneath and marked above 

 by a sharp groove or furrow, the lateral pair obscure and vanishing long before 

 reaching the point of the leaf Flowers numerous, crowded or imbricated in a con- 

 stantly elongating spicate raceme terminating the stem and branches ; on erect, 

 glandulose-pilose, stout pedicels, about as long as the calyx, and springing from 

 the axil of a lanceolate glabrous bract. Calyx glabrous, much shorter than the 

 spur, its segments ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute and entire, 3-rib- 

 bed, the 2 inferior ones a little remote, all equal in length, spreading at the points. 

 Corolla from about 12 to 16 lines in length including the spur, finely ribbed or 

 striate, sulphur-coloured, the lower lip citron-yellow, the very tumid bilobed 

 palate of a rich orange, sometimes quite pale and concolorous, densely villous and 

 bearded within, quite closing the throat ; upper lip deeply bifid, porrected, the 

 segments rounded, ascending, vaulted and reflexed ; lower lip trifid, about as long 

 as the upper, its segments roundish-obovate, the two lateral plane, somewhat 



