256 57. SCKOPHtTLAEIACILa:. 



tt Fl. racemose. 



[Z. Felisseridna (Mill.) ; glabrous, 1. linear, the lower temate 

 or quatemate, upper alternate, sterile branclies radical prostrate 

 ■with temate lanceolate or ovate 1., Jl. racemose, peduncles as 

 long as the bracts, sepals linear acute twice as long as the 

 capsule, seeds nearly flat with a fringed wing one side smooth 

 the other tubercular. — E. B. S. 2832. — PL purple with darker 

 veins. St. one or more &om each root, erect, about a foot high. 

 Caps, bilobed. — Jersey. A. V.] 



*5. L. supina (Desf ) ; glabrous, rachis ped. and sep. glan- 

 dular-hairy,!, linear blunt mostly whorled, sep. Knear-spathulate 

 shorter than the caps, or spur, seeds smooth nearly flat with a 

 striate wing. — 8y. E. B. 868. L. maritima DC. Icon. Gall. 12. 

 — St. diffuse or ascending. Fl. capitate-racemose, yellow; 

 throat and spur with slender purple lines. Style entire. — 

 Plymouth and Poole ; a ballast plant. Perhaps a native at 

 Hayle, and St. Blazey's Bay, Cornwall. A. VH. YIU. E. 



*6. L. purpurea (Mill.) ; glabrous, 1. linear-lanceolate scat- 

 tered, lower 1. irregularly in fours, fl. narrowly racemose, sep. 

 linear shorter than the caps, and long incurved spur, seeds 

 angular with a network of elevated lines. — Sy. E. B. 960. — FI. 

 purple or yellow with the lips purple ; spur two or three times 

 as long as the ped. which is usually shorter than the bract. 

 St. erect, leafy.— Old walls. Naturalized. P. VII. VHI. E. 



7. L. repens (Ait.) ; glabrous, 1. linear scattered or partly 

 whorled, fl. racemose, sep. lanceolate as long as the spur but 

 shorter than the caps., seeds angular with transverse elevated lines, 

 —E.B. 1253. L. striata DC— Fl. white with blue veins. St. 

 erect, branched, leafy, 1 — IJ foot high, slender. Seeds much 

 smaller tlian those of L. vulgaris. — X. italica and X. sepium may 

 be hybrids between this and X. vulgaris. — Calcareous soils, par- 

 ticularly near the sea, rare. P. VII.— IX. E. I. 



8. X. vulgaris (Mill.) ; glabrous, rachis and peduncles glan- 

 dular-hairy, 1. linear-lanceolate scattered crowded, fl. racemose 

 imbricate, sep. ovate acute glabrous shorter than the caps, or 

 spur, seeds tubercular-asperous with a smooth orbicular margin. 

 — E. B. 658. — Fl. large, yellow, rarely milk-white with an 

 orange palate. St. ereet, 2 feet high, as well as the 1. glabrous. 

 Common and partial flower-stalks occasionally glabrous. — The 

 state called Peloria with 5 spurs and an equal and regular cor. 

 is rarely found. E. B. 260. — ^. latifolia (Bab.) ; 1. nan-owly 

 lanceolate, fl.-l. often lanceolate very glaucous, fl. twice as large 

 in a few-fl. lax raceme, ped. glabrous, spur dia'ected perpendicu- 



