Antirrhinum eljtine. Sharp-pointed Fluellin. 



ANTIRRHINUM Lin. Gen. PL Didynamia Angiospermia. 



Rait Syn. Gen. 18. Herbje fructu sicco sinculari, flore monopetalo irregu- 



LARI. 



ANTIRRHINUM fbliis haftatis alternis, caulibus procumbentibus. Linn. Sp. PL 85. 



ANTIRRHINUM caule procnmbente, follis haftatis, imis conjugatis, fuperioribus alternis. Haller hijl. v. 1* 



p. 14. 6. n. 340. 

 ELATINE folio acuminata, in bafi auriculato, flore luteo. Bauhin Pin. 253. 

 ELATINE folio acuminata. Parkin/on $53* 

 ELATINE altera. Gerard emac. 623. 

 LINARIA Elatine dict-a, folio acuminata. Rati Syn. *282. 

 ANTIRRHINUMS/^. Bud/on FL Angt. p. 237. Scopoh 'PL CarnioL p. 444. OEder. PL Dan. Ic. 426. 



TOTA PLANTA pilofa. 4 THE WHOLE PLANT hairy. 



RADIX fibrofa, annua, albida, | ROOT fibrous, annual, whitifh. 



CAULES numerofi, teretes, fubramofi, in junioribus $ STALKS numerous, round, a little branched, in the 



plantis fuberecti, tandem procumbentes, ad duos | young plants nearly upright, in the old ones 



pedes et ultra faepe extenfi. | trailing on the ground, frequently to the dif- 



f tance of two feet or more. 



FOLIA petiolata, ima fubrotunda, oppofita ; proxima | LEAVES ftanding on foot-ftalks, the bottom leaves 



dentata, alterna ; quse fequuntur magna ex parte £ roundifh and oppofite, the next to thofe are in- 



haftata. I dented and alternate, and thofe which follow 



I are for the moll: part haftate. 



PEDUNCULI axillares, alterni, penduli, longitudine £ PEDUNCLES alternate, pendulous, the length of, and 



foliorum. | proceeding from the Alae of the leaves. 



CALYX: Perianthium quinquepartitum, perfiftens, ^ CALYX: a Perianthium divided into five fegments 



fegmentis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, Jig. 1 . | perfifting, the fegments lanceolate, Jig. 1 . 



COROLLA monopetala, ringens, flava; tubus breviffi- |. COROLLA monopetalous, ringent, and yellow; the 



mus ; limbus bilabiatus, labium fuperius bifi- | tube very fhort ; the LiM3 divided into two 



dum, fegmentis obtufis, inferne purpureis, in- * lips, the upper lip bifid, the fegments obtufe, 



ferius triiidum, fegmentis obtufis, medio pro- | and purple underneath ; the lower lip trifid, 



ductiore, et paulo minore ; palatum prominu- | the fegments obtufe, the middle one longeft 



lum, flavum. Jig. 2; Nectarium fubulatum, I and leaf!:; the palate prominent and yellow* 



flavum, longitudine fegmentorum calycis, jig. 3. % fig. 2; the Nectarium the length of the feg- 



| ments of the Calyx, fmall and tapering, fig. 



■ / f 3- 



STAMINA: FilAmenta quatuor, quorum duo paulo i STAMINA four Filaments, two of which are a little 

 longiora ; Anthers purpureo-fulcae, coalef- | longer than the others; the Antherje pur- 



centes, fig. 4. f plifh-brown, adhering together, fig. 4. 



PISTILLUM : Germen fubrotundum, compreflum, a- * PISTILLUM : the Germen roundifh, flattened, at top 

 pice villofum ; Stylus filiformis, longitudine £ hairy; the Style filiform, the length of the 



ftaminum, apice incraffatus, uncinatus ; Stig- t Stamina, thickened at top and hooked ; the 



ma fimplex, fig. 5, 6, 7. I Stigma fimple, fig. 5, 6, y. 



PERICARPIUM: Capsula rotunda, bilocularis, bival- £ SEED-VESSEL: a round Capsule of two cavities 

 vis, valvis deciduis, foramine magno in utroque | and two valves, the valves round and concave, 



latere capfulae reliclo, valvae orbiculatas, con- ^ on falling off leaving a large hole in each fide 



cav£e, fig. 8, 9, 10. I of the Capfule, fig. 8, 9, 10. 



SEMINA nigra, rugofa, 8—10 in fingulo loculamento, | SEEDS black, and wrinkled, from 8 to 10 in each cavi- 



THIS fpecies of Antirrhinum grows generally in Corn-fields, and in fome parts of England is much more 

 common than it is with us ; in the Corn-fields about Peckham I have generally found it in bloom in July, 

 Augufl and September, and even later ; it very much refembles the Antirrhinwn Jpurhim in its general habit, 

 but is readily diftinguimed by its pointed leaves. Some Writers have confidered it as pofleffed of healing proper- 

 ties, and affirm that the exprefled juice of the plant, or its difiilled water taken inwardly and applied exter- 

 nally, has checked and cured fp reading and cancerous Ulcers; and Ray relates a Story from Lobel of a poor 

 Barber, who by the above ufe of this plant, faved his Nofe, which had been condemned to be cut off by fa* 

 veral eminent Phyficians and Surgeons, 



