328 THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. 
glabrous, except a few glandular hairs amongst the flowers. Leaves 
crowded, linear, or narrow-lanceolate. Flowers large and yellow, form- 
ing a short but handsome terminal panicle. Calyx small. Spur of the 
corolla long and pointed ; the projecting palate of the lower lip of a 
bright orange colour, completely closing the tube. Capsule large and 
ovoid, with numerous rough seeds, surrounded by a narrow, scarious 
border. ; 
In hedges, and on the borders of fields, in Europe and Russian Asia, 
and has been carried out with European crops to other parts of the 
world. Abundant all over the British Isles excepting the Scotch 
Highlands, where it is more rare, fl. summer and autumn. A singular 
deformity, called Peloria, occurs sometimes, in which the corollas ~ 
are regular, with 5 spurs. Varieties are also occasionally found with 
smaller flowers, either yellow or striped, and without the border to 
the seeds. They are very rare, and supposed to be hybrids between 
this and the following species. [There are two recognised British | 
forms, the common one, with faintly 3-nerved leaves, a glandular 
raceme, and ovate-lanceolate calyx segments ; and var. latifolia, Bab., 
with 3-nerved leaves, glabrous raceme, leafy bracts, and lanceolate 
calyx segments. | 3 
2. L. repens, Ait. (fig. 735). Pale £.—Rootstock slender, and 
creeping to a considerable extent ; the stems erect or decumbent at the 
base, from 8 or 10 inches to above 2 feet high, and glabrous. Leaves 
crowded or whorled at the base of the stem, scattered in the upper 
part. Flowers rather small, but pretty and slightly sweet-scented, 
forming short racemes, usually arranged in a terminal panicle. Corolla 
under 6 lines long, nearly white, but striped with bluish or purple 
veins ; the spur usually very short and conical, but variable in length. 
Seeds wrinkled, without any scarious border. 
In stony wastes, in southern and central Europe to the Gite 
scarcely extending into Germany. Rare in Britain, occurring here and 
there in England and Ireland, or farther north only as a straggler from 
gardens, where it was formerly cultivated. Fl. swmmer and autumn. 
3. L. Pelisseriana, Mill. (fig. 736). Pelisser’s L.—An erect, glabrous, 
slender annual, scarcely branched, with very narrow linear leaves, few 
and distant. Flowers small, in a short terminal raceme; the corolla 
purple, with dark veins, and a long slender-pointed spur. 
In bushy wastes, and pastures, in western and southern Europe, 
along the Mediterranean region to the Caucasus, extending here and 
there into central Europe, and has been gathered in the Isle of Jersey. 
Fl, June. 
4. L. supina, Desf. (fig. 737). Supine Z.—Perennial stock short, 
with numerous branches, seldom 6 inches long, decumbent at the base, 
simple or nearly so, glabrous or with a slight glandular down. Leaves 
linear ; the lower ones and those of the barren stems whorled. Flowers 
yellow, in a short terminal raceme, rather smaller than in L. vulgaris, 
with a long, slender spur. Seeds nearly flat, with a scarious wing. 
In sandy or stony places, especially near the sea, in western Europe 
and the west Mediterranean region. Very abundant in southern 
France and Spain, extending up the western coast to the Channel, 
and occasionally found in Devonshire and Cornwall on ballast heaps. 
Fl. summer. 
