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yellow or nearly white, the size of those of V. nigrum. Hairs of the 
filaments white. 
On banks and waysides, in Europe and western Asia, extending north- 
wards into Scandinavia. In Britain, scattered over several parts of central 
and southern England, but local. Fl. summer. 
6. V. pulverulentum, Vill. (fig. 729). Hoary Mullein.—A stately 
species, often growing to the height of 3 feet or more, terminating ina 
long, stiff, pyramidal panicle, with spreading branches, and remarkable 
for the mealy white wool which clothes the whole plant, but is easily 
rubbed off. Leaves sessile, or the lower ones narrowed into a short foot- 
stalk, broadly oblong and crenate. Flowers numerous, in small clusters, 
about the size of those of the last two species, yellow, with white hairs to 
the filaments. 
On roadsides, and dry, stony wastes, in central and especially southern 
Europe, not extending so far east as the preceding species, nor into 
northern Germany, In Britain, apparently confined to Norfolk and Suffolk. 
Fl. summer. 
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Il. ANTIRRHINUM. SNAPDRAGON, 
Herbs, with the lower leaves often opposite, the upper ones alternate, 
and the flowers, often showy, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, or 
forming terminal racemes, Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla with a broad 
tube, slightly protruding below the calyx on the lower side, but not spurred 
as in Linaria; the divisions of the limb arranged in two lips, with a pro- 
jecting palate closing the mouth, Capsule oblique, 2-celled, opening at 
the top by 2 or 8 pores. 
The species are not numerous, chiefly confined to the Mediterranean 
regions, or more especially to south-western Europe. 
Perennial, with showy flowers. Sepals broad and short : . Ll. A. majus. 
Annual. Sepals narrow, as long as the corolla ad Vag ° - 2. A. Orontium. 
1, A. majus, Linn. (fig. 730). Great Snapdragon.—Stem perennial 
_ at the base, forming a leafy tuft; the flowering branches erect, 1 to 2 feet 
high, glabrous or slightly downy, often branched, Leaves narrow-lanceo- 
late or linear, entire. Flowers Jarge, purplish-red (or, in gardens, white or 
variegated). Segments of the calyx broad and obtuse, not above 3 lines 
long. Corolla above an inch long, the so-called palate opening when the 
tube is pressed laterally between the finger and thumb, whence the ee 
name of the genus, 
In clefts of rocks, old walls, and stony places, in the Mediterranean re- 
gion, but being much cultivated in gardens, it has become naturalized much 
further north, and is frequently found in similar situations in England and 
Ireland. FV. summer and autumn. 
2. &. Orontium, Linn. (fig. 731). Lesser Snapdragon.—An erect 
annual, seldom above a foot high, much more slender than 4. majus, with 
narrower leaves. Flowers scarcely 6 lines long, mostly in the axils of the 
upper leaves; the narrow, unequal segments of the calyx as long as or 
longer than the corolla. 
Apparently indigenous in southern Europe, and widely spread as a weed 
of cultivation over the greater part of Europe and central Asia, and carried 
