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Linara. 
Canadense, 
purp urea, 
DIDYNAMIA, GYMNOSPERMIA. 
with 3 to 5 reflected dentures, a stapediform 
styliferous arch remaining betwixt either 
aperture.—Gertner. 
1. A. erect, glabrous; leaves scattered, lanceo- 
late-linear, crowded ; spikes terminal, thickly 
flowered; calices glabrous, shorter than the 
spine.— Willd. and Pursh. 
Icon. Fl. Dan. 982. Engl. Bot. 658. 
Toad Flax. Ransted-weed. Wild Snap-dragon 
A very elegant plant, but disgusting from its offensive phos- 
phoretic smell. Leaves greyish-green. Flowers bright yellow ; 
said to contain phosphorus. Introduced, but every where ex- 
tensively naturalized, in the United States. On road-sides, 
commons, wastes, and the borders of fields, very common and 
abundant. Perennial, from July till October. 
2. A. assurgent, glabrous, very simple; leaves 
scattered, erect, narrow-linear, obtuse, remote ; 
flowers racemous, shoots creeping.— Willd. and 
Pursh. 
Icon. Vent. hort. cels. 49. 
Purple Toad Flax. 
_ A very delicate plant, with small oval radical leaves, acute 
at each end; narrow linear stem leaves, and purple flowers. 
In sandy fields, roads, and woods of Jersey; common. An- 
nual. June, July. 
286. GERARDIA. Gen. pl. 1004. (Scrophularie.) 
Calix half 5-cleft, or 5-toothed. Corolla sub- 
campanulate, unequally 5-lobed, segments 
mostly rounded. Capsule 2-celled, open- 
ing at the summit.— Vutt. 
1. G, stem opposite, very much branched ; leaves 
linear ; flowers axillary, opposite, sessile.— 
Willd. ‘and Pursh. 
Icon. Pluk. mant. t. 388. f 1. (Pursh.) 
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