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1. Linaria Linaria (L.) Karst. Ranstead. Butter-and-Eggs. 
Antirrhinum Linaria L. Sp. Pl. 616. 1753. 
Linaria vulgaris Hill, Brit. Herb. 108. 1756. 
Linaria Linaria Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 947. 1880-83. 
Perennial by short rootstocks, pale green and slightly 
glaucous; stems slender, erect, very leafy, glabrous, or 
sparingly glandular-pubescent above, simple or with 
few erect branches, 1°-3° high. Leaves linear, sessile, 
entire, acute at both ends, mostly alternate, 3’-13’ long, 
1-13” wide; flowers densely racemose, light yellow, 
1-13’ long, the spur of the erect corolla somewhat 
darker, the palate orange-colored; pedicels 2-4’ long, 
nearly erect; calyx-segments oblong, acutish, about 13” 
long; spur subulate, nearly as long as the body of the 
corolla; middle lobe of the lower lip shorter than the 
other two; capsule ovoid, the seeds rugose, winged. 
in; fields and waste places, Newfoundland to Oregon, 
Virginia and New Mexico. Naturalized from Europe. 
Native also of Asia. June-Oct. Brideweed. Flaxweed. 
Eggs and bacon. Yellow toad-flax. Impudent lawyer. Jacob’s-ladder. 
Rancid. Wild flax or tobacco. Devil’s flax. Snap-dragon. Devil’s- 
flower. Dead men’s bones. Bread and butter. Continental weed. 
Spa i Rabbit-flower. Widely distributed in temperate regions as 
a weed. 
Linaria genistaefdlia (L.) Mill., found many years ago at the 
northern part of New York Island, and admitted into the first edi- 
tion of this work, has not recently been collected in America. 
2. Linaria supina Desf. Supine Linaria. Fig. 3744. 
Linaria supina Desf. Fl. Atlant. 2: 44. 1800. 
Perennial by short rootstocks, bright green; stems few or 
numerous, decumbent, 4’-9’ long, glabrous or slightly glandular- 
pubescent. Leaves linear-spatulate to narrowly linear, the lower 
ones whorled, the upper alternate, mostly 5-15” long; flowers 
few together in short racemes, nearly similar to those of L. 
Linaria, but smaller; capsule globose or ovoid-globose. 
Waste places and ballast, northern Atlantic seaboard. Naturalized 
from Europe. 
3. Linaria canadénsis (L.) Dumort. Blue or Wild Toad-Flax. Fig. 3745. 
Antirrhinum canadense L. Sp. Pl. 618. 1753. 
Linaria canadensis Dumont, Bot. Cult. 2: 96. 1802. 
Biennial or annual, glabrous, green, sometimes 
fleshy; flowering stems erect or ascending, very 
slender, simple, or branched, 4’-23° high, the sterile 
shoots spreading or procumbent, very leafy. Leaves 
linear or linéar-oblong, 4’-15” long, 3-1” wide, 
entire. sessile, those of the sterile shoots, or some 
of them, usually opposite; flowers 3-4” long, in 
slender long racemes; pedicels 2’”—3” long, erect and 
appressed in fruit, minutely bracted at the base; 
calyx-segments lanceolate, acute or acuminate, about 
as long as the capsule; spur of the corolla filiform, 
curved, as long as the tube or longer; palate a white 
convex 2-ridged projection; capsule opening by 2 
apical valves, each valve becoming 3-toothed; seeds 
angled, wingless. 
In dry soil, Nova Scotia_to Florida, west to Minne- 
sota, Oregon, Texas and California.- Also in Central 
and South America. A dwarf form with no corolla is frequent. May—Sept. 
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