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12. COLLINSIA. (Named by Nuttall for the late Zuccheus Collim of 

 Philadelphia. ) Flowers handsome, mostly 2-colored. (j) @ 



C. v6rna. Wild from Western New York W. -. slender, 6' - 20' high, with 

 ovate or lance-ovate and tootlicd leaves, the upper clasping heart-shaped, and 

 slcnder-peduncled flowers in early spring, lower lip blue, upper white. 



C. bicolor, of California, and a handsome garden annual, is stouter, with 

 crowded flowers as if whorled, pedicels shorter than calyx, lower' lip of corolla 

 violet, the upper pale or white, or in one variety both white. 



13. LINARIA, TOAD-FLAX. (Name from Linum, Flax, from resem- 

 blance in the leaves of the commoner species.) Fl. summer. 



• Leavrs mirrow, sessile, and entire : stems erect : flowers racemed. * 



L. Canadensis, Wild T. Gravelly and sandy ground, with scattered 



linear leaves on the slender flowering stems, or oblong and in pairs or threes on 



prostrate shoots, and very small blue flo^vers. ® ® 

 i.. vulgaris, Common T., Ramsted, Butteu-and-Eggs. A showy but 



troublesome European weed, of fields and roadsides, l°-3° high, with alternate 



crowded linear or lanceolate pale leaves, and a dense raceme of yellow flowers 



(1' long) with paler tips. ^ 

 L. triornith6phora. Cult, from Europe ; glaucous, 2° - 3° high, with 



ovate-lanceolate leaves in whorls, and rather large slender-peduncled long-spurred 



flowers, violet and purple-striped. ^ 



* » Leaves Irroad, often lohed : stems and branches trailing: flowers very small, 

 yellow and purple mixed, on long axillary pi duncles : natives of Europe. 



L. Elatine. Nat. in gravelly organdy soil ; hairy, with pvate and halberd- 

 shaped short-petioled leaves, the lower ones opposite. ® 



L. Cymbal^ia. Cult, as a delicate little trailing ornamental plant : very 

 smooth, pale, with rooting brariches, and thickish almost kidney-shaped 3-5- 

 lobed leaves on long petioles, y, 



14. ANTIRRHINUM, SNAPDRAGON. (Name from the Greek, 

 compares the flower with the snout or muzzle of an animal. ) Nat. and cult, 

 from Europe : fl. summer. 



§"1. Tkde Snapdragon, with palate closing the mouth of the corolla, and erect 

 or ascending stems, not climbing. 



A. m^US, Labgei S. of the gardens; with stems l°-3° high, oblong or 

 lanceolate entire smooth leaves, and glandular-downy raceme of showy flowers, 

 the crimson, purple, white, or variegated corolla over 1 ' long. y. 



A. Ordntium, Small S. Weed in some old gardens and cult, grounds ; 

 low, slender, with linear leaves, and white or purplish axillary flowers ^' 

 long. @ 



§ 2. Maurandia-like S., with palate not. so large, nor fully closing the mouth, 

 and stems climbing by the coiling of their slender petioles and sometimes of 

 the peduncles also. 



A. maurandioides, cult, from Texas and Mexico, as MaurAndia 

 antirrhinifl6ra ; smooth, with triangular-halbcrd-shaped'leaves, or some of 

 them heart-shaped, and showy flowers in their axils, the violet or purple corolla 

 1' or more long. y. 



15. MATJRANDIA. (Named for Pro/ jVawrandftf.) Excluding the last 

 preceding species, which has the flower of Snapdragon, and including 

 LopHospERMCM, which has wing-margined seeds. Mexican climbers, with 

 triangular and heart-shaped or halberd-shaped and obscurely lohed leaves, 

 tender, cult, for ornament : fl. all summer. 



§ 1 . Corolla naked inside, rather obviously 2-lipped. 

 M. Barclaykaa. Stems and leaves smooth'; calyx glandnlar-hairy, clam- 

 my, its divisions lanee-linear ; corolla purple, usually dark, 2' or more long. 



