SCROPHULARINE/E. 



613 



glandular down. Leaves, although linear, 

 yet broader and more obtuse than in 

 any of the preceding species, and nar- 

 rowed at the base. Flowers very small, 

 on long axillary peduncles ; the corolla 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx, of a pale 

 purple or violet colour, with a short 

 blunt spur. Seeds small, not bordered. 

 In waste and cultivated places, in 

 temperate and southern Europe, ex- 

 tending northward far into Scandinavia 

 and eastward to the Caucasus. In Bri- 

 tain, not unfrequent as a weed of culti- 

 vation in southern England, more rare 

 in the north, in Ireland, and in Scotland. 

 Fl. summer. 



Fig. 731. 



6. Ivy Linaria. Linaria Cymbalaria, Mill. (Fig. 732.) 

 {Antirrhinum, Eng. Bot. t. 502.) 



A perfectly glabrous, trailing peren- 

 nial, with slender stems, often rooting at 

 the nodes. Leaves stalked, broad, al- 

 most reniform, broadly 5-lobed, rather 

 thick, and faintly marked with 3 or 5 

 palmate veins. Flowers small, solitary, 

 on recurred axillary peduncles, of a pale 

 lilac, with a rather short spur; the pa- 

 late yellowish, closing the tube. Cap- 

 sule nearly globular, containing several 

 warted but not winged seeds. 



On rocks, old walls, and stony places, 

 in the Mediterranean region, and now naturalized in many parts of 

 central and even northern Europe. In Britain, perfectly established in 

 several counties of England and Ireland. Fl. the zvhole season. 



Fig. 732. 



7. Round-leaved Linaria. Linaria spuria, Mill. (Fig. 733.) 



(Antirrhinum, Eng. Bot. t. 691.) 



A very hairy annual, with slender, branching, prostrate stems, 2 or 

 3 inches to a foot or more long. Leaves nearly sessile, broadly ovate 



