SCEOPHULAElNEvE. 



611 



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 Feloria, occurs some- 

 times, in which the corollas are regular, 

 with 5 spurs. Yarieties are also occa- 

 sionally 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. 



727. 



2. Pale Linaria. Linaria repens, Ait. (Pig. 728.) 

 (Antirrhinum, Eng. Bot. t. 1253.) 



Rootstoek 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 cen- 

 tral Europe to the Caucasus, scarcely 

 extending into Germany. Rare in Bri- 

 tain, occurring here and there in south- 

 ern England and Ireland, or further 



north only as a straggler from gardens, where it was former 

 quently cultivated. FL summer and autumn 



Fig. 728. 



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