328 THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. [Antirrhinum. 
out to other countries. In Britain, it extends over England and southern — 
Ireland. FU. summer. 
Ill. LINARIA. LINARIA. 
' This genus only differs from Antirrhinum in the tube of the corolla, — 
which is projected at the base into a conical or cylindrical spur. The 
species are more numerous, and the geographical range rather wider, but — 
still the greater number are from southern and especially south-western 
Europe. | 
Stems erect or ascending. Leaves linear, oblong or rarely 
ovate, entire. 
Flowers yellow. . 
Stems 1 to 3 feet high, erect from the base . ° ° . Ll. ZL. vulgaris. 
Stems scarcely 6 inches high, diffuse at the base . ° . 4 L. supina. 
Flowers blue or purplish or striped. 
Perennial. Flowers on short pedicels, in terminal racemes. 
Spur short and conical . . 2. LD. repens. 
Annual. Flowers cn short pedicels, in a short terminal ‘ 
raceme. Spurlongand slender .- 3. DL. Pelisseriana. 
Annual Flowers small, on long axillary pedicels. ‘Spur 
short and conical . ° . 5b LDL. minor. 
Stems trailing. Leaves ovate, orbicular, or angular. 
‘Plant quite glabrous. Leaves 5- lobed, with palmate nerves. 6. Z. Cymbalaria. — 
Plant hairy. Leaves ovate or angular, with pinnate nerves. 
Leaves ovate or orbicular, very hairy. Peduncles matty? 
Sepals broad . 7. DZ spuria. 
Leaves angular or hastate at the pase, slightly hairy. Pe- 
duncles glabrous and slender. Sepals narrow . . 8. ZL. Elatine. 
L. purpurea, a tall Italian species, with narrow leaves and a long raceme 
of small purple flowers, has become almost naturalized in the south of the 
Isle of Wight, and several other species, suchas Z. triphylla and bipartita, 
cultivated in our flower-gardens, will occasionally sow themselves in the 
vicinity, but soon disappear again. 
1, &. vulgaris, Mill. (fig. 732). Common Linaria, Toadflar.— 
Rootstock shortly creeping. Stems erect, 1 to 3 feet high, of a glaucous 
green, and usually glabrous, except a few glandular hairs amongst the 
flowers. Leaves crowded, linear, or narrow-lanceolate. Flowers large and 
yellow, forming 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 
oe ovoid, with numerous rough ee surrounded by a narrow, scarious 
order, 
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. FV. 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 mh 
posed to be hybrids between this and the following species, 
2. G. repens, Ait. (fig. 733). Pale Linaria.—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 
