348 SCROPHULABIACE^. [Llnaria. 



deflexed, the middle lohe much smaller, sometimes slightly emarginate ; spur 

 subulate, 6 or 7 lines in length, slightly curving backwards, often nearly straight, 

 rounded at the point, terete, slightly keeled beneath. Stamens very unequal, 

 their filaments stout, white, glabrous, except the longer pair, which are a little 

 glaudulose-pilose at base in front; anlliers cream-coloured, distinct or slightly 

 cohering in pairs. Style mostly about the length of the longer stamens, terete, a 

 little enlarged below the greenish, oblique, glandulose stigma, quite glabrous. 

 Ovary conoidal, glabrous, seated on a green tumid gland, which entirely sur- 

 rouuds it. Capsules pale straw-yellow, veined and glabrous, tipped with the style, 

 much longer than the calyx, subgloboso-elliptical, very obtuse, with a lateral fur- 

 row, dehiscing at the summit by several irregular teeth or valves. Seeds grayish 

 black, orbicular, thin and flat, shagreened and partly muricato-tuberculate, edged 

 with a broad flat membrane. 



The var. (3. is a very handsome one, from the shining milky or pearly whiteness 

 of the corolla, and deep orange of the palate. The spur appears to he a little 

 longer and more attenuated than in the ordinary state of the plant, but the bril- 

 liant white of the flowers cannot be prevented from changing to the usual yellow 

 colour in the process of drying. Mr. Borrer tells me has remarked this var. I 

 think in Sussex. 



I. A very remarkable variety, if not a distinct species, though I can find no 

 good character to separate it from L. vulgaris, except proportion of parts. Leaves 

 much broader, narrowly lanceolate, the floral ones often quite lanceolate, more 

 rigid and spreading than in P. vulgaris and very glaucous. Flowers nearly twice 

 the size, approaching those of L. dalmatica, and like them of a citron- rather 

 than sulphur-yellow, very handsome, forming a few-flowered, lax or distant 

 raceme, not crowded and imbricate as in L. vulgaris, on longer less erect pedicels, 

 the spur longer, straigh'ter, more attenuate and very acute, directed perpendicu- 

 larly downward. Capsules not much above half the size of those of L. vulgaris, 

 mostly shorter than the calyx, sometimes as long or a very little longer. Seeds 

 smaller, very similar to those of L. vulgaris, but the tubercles in the centre larger, 

 more prominent and irregular. 



Barton, in the ' Compendium Florae Philadelphica,' ascribes a foetid phospho- 

 retted odour to the flowers of this plant, and states that they are said to contain 

 phosphoms, I suppose therefore in a free or uncombined state. 



3. L. repens. Act. Creeping - rooted Pale - blue Toadflax. 

 Blueish Sweet Toadflax. Glabrous, leaves linear whorled or 

 scattered, flowers racemose, sepals lanceolate glabrous the length 

 of the spur but shorter than the capsule, seeds angular trans- 

 versely wrinkled, stems erect. Br. Fl. p. 300. Antirrhinum, L. : 

 E. B. t. 1253. Lin. striata, DC. 



p. hybrida. Flowers larger; spur longer, acute, somewhat curved ; upper lip 

 striated, lower lip whitish, plain (or obsoletely striate) ; palate orange. (See H. 

 C. Watson in Hook. Lond. Journal of Bot. vol. i. L. Bauhini sed male). L. 

 italica, Trev. P Br. Fl. 5th ed. Sab. Man. p. 218. L. stricta, Hornemann. 

 Retell. Icon. cent. 5, p. 14, tab. 423 ? L. stricta /3. grandiflora, Godron, Fl. de 

 Lorraine, ii. p. 146. 



In hedges, on banks and dry barren ground ; rare. Fl. June — September. If. 



E. Med. — By the roadside about a quarter of a mile beyond Stapler's heath 

 going from Newport to Eyde, sparingly. Between Quarr and Binstead ? Rev. 

 Wm. Darwin Fox, but who does not feel sure that this station is correct, nor have 

 I ever seen it near Ryde myself. 



W. Med. — In several places about W. Cowes, rather plentiful, as along the 

 road to Newport on the left hand, some distance beyond the turnpike-gate, at 

 intervals, where also the var. (3. occurs, but in extremely small quantity. Hedges 

 about Bioadfield farm, in various places, pretty abundantly. On the field side of 

 the right-hand hedge of a bye-road leading out of the Newport and Cowes road 

 to the windmill. A few plants by the roadside between Bouldner and Luckets. 



