350 SCBOPHITLARIACE^. [Linaria. 



obtuse ; the lower lip, as in X. vvlgarls, is |iale yellow or whitisli, without pui'ple 

 striae, or at best but a few fuint traces of such towards the spur ; palate with a 

 broad orange disk ; in L. repens there is little more than a speck of that colour 

 in the centre, almost concealed by the incumbent upper limb of the corolla. 

 Again, though the inflorescence is decidedly the paniculate one of L. repens, the 

 flowers on the extreme branches evince a tendency towards a spicate form, and 

 the leaves are somewhat less dispersed or closer set, as we find them in L. vulga- 

 ris. Capsules are formed on this hybrid plant, but I have not yet ascertained 

 whether the ripe seed will reproduce the mule variety, an experiment I intend 

 trying, if possible. In reply to a communication in which I expressed my con- 

 viction of this being a hybrid, Mr. H. C. Walson says, " Your hybrid Linaria is 

 in all likelihood the same as my L. Bauhini, and it hybrid we should expect some 

 differences, as in fact do exist in the Cornish, Hants, Cork and Swiss specimens." 

 It ought surely to excite suspicion that this Linaria has been hitherto remarked 

 only in stations known to produce the rarer of the two parents, viz. L. repens, at 

 Shirley, Penrhyn, Cowes and Cork. 



The fact of the flowers possessing a sweet odour, affirmed of this species by the 

 old botanists, though I could never perceive it, was accidentally remarked to me 

 by Mr. Butler, of the Bugle Ina, Yarmouth. 



§§ Flowers solitary, axillary. 



3. L. minor, Desf. Least Toadflax. " Leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late obtuse mostly alternate glandular pubescent, flowers solitary 

 axillary, pedicels three times as long as the calyx which is longer 

 than the spur, segments of the upper lip of the corolla diverging, 

 seeds oblong furrowed, stem erect much branched." — Br. Fl. p. 

 301. E. B. t. 2014. 



In dry gravelly or sandy cornfields and other tillage-lands, in waste and gar- 

 den-ground, chalk-pits, on old walls aud rubbish here and there, often abundantly. 

 P/. June— October. jFV. July. &c 0. 



JE. Med. — On the Dover occasionally. Very plentifully in a field between 

 Whitefield wood and Barnsley farm. Near Adgestone. Bather abundantly on 

 the steep banks of debris of the chalk-marl in Whiteclifi' bay. Most abundantly 

 in the third field below Gatehouse farm, along which the pathway to Newchurch 

 goes, also in a field adjoining, and occupying the space between Inwards and 

 Long Phillis copses, a little due S. of Beanacre farm. In a field near Ryde, by 

 the road to Ashey and Newchurch. Wheat-field between Prestwood and Small- 

 brook farm, in some plenty. Field near Nunwell. Very abundantly in the gar- 

 den of Red Cross, at Salterns, Dr. Bell-Salier. Quarry at Veutnor, Dr. Martin. 

 Shide chalk- pit, in plenty, Mr. Snooke .'.'.' 



W. Med. — In a high field or sloping bank at the West end of White Pit 

 (chalk-pit), Newport, 1845. About W. Cowes, near Pallance, &c., not unfre- 

 quent. Near Thorness bay, Ningwood and Rowledge. Cornfields between Wel- 

 low and Shalcombe farm. Near Westover. By Calbourne New Barn, fields 

 near Tapnel, Mr. SnooJce. 



Herb clothed all over with spreading, simple, glandular pubescence, which is a 

 little viscid, readily retaining particles of dust conveyed by the wind. Root 

 annual, whitish, slender, tapering and flexuose, not much branched, often nearly 

 simple. Stem erect or often reclining at base, oblique or ascending, round, solid, 

 wavy, often in part purplish, in small specimens nearly simple, in the larger more 

 or less copiously branched from the base and bushy, the lowennost branches 

 mostly opposite, the higher alternate, simple or slightly compound, more or less 

 erect or ascending, usually overtopped by the main stem. Leaves scattered or 

 alternate, a few of the lowermost chiefly opposite, rather distant, not much above 

 an inch long at most, dull grayish green, often purplish, especially underneath, 

 somewhat fleshy, with a strong depressed midrib, very narrowly lanceolate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, more or less obtuse, attenuated downwards rather than petio- 



