IVY-LEAVED TOAD- 

 FLAX. 



Linaria Cymbalaria. Nat. Ord., 

 Scropkulariacete. 



IR WILLIAM HOOKER, in 

 the "British Flora/' prepared 

 conjointly by Dr. Walker Arnott 

 and himself, has marked the 

 present plant doubtfully authen- 

 tic as a British species, or rather, 

 we may almost say, denies its 

 claim altogether. In the preface 

 we read, " The many plants that 

 have been, or are daily becoming, 

 naturalised amongst us, whether 

 by the agency of man or of birds, 

 are branded with an asterisk," and 

 the ivy-leaved toadflax is one that is 

 thus branded or distinguished in the 

 body of the book. There is no doubt 

 whatever that the plant has not been a 

 Briton ab initio, whenever that date may have been ; but 

 as we find it mentioned by all our old writers, and find it 

 moreover in profusion in a great many widely scattered 

 localities throughout Britain and Ireland, it is fully entitled 

 to a place in our series. 



Though the plant is really a member of the flora of 

 Southern Europe and the countries that border the great 



