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THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. 



or orbicular. Flowers solitary, on hairy 

 peduncles, in the axils of the upper 

 smaller leaves. Sepals ovate or broadly 

 lanceolate. Corolla very small, yellow- 

 ish, with a purple upper lip ; the spur 

 slender and recurved. Seeds warted, 

 without wings. 



In waste and stony places, in the Me- 

 diterranean region, and as a weed of 

 cultivation in central Europe, but not 

 extending so far north as the pointed L. 

 In Britain, only in cultivated places, in 

 southern and central England. Fl. the 

 whole season. 



Fig. 733. 



Pointed Linaria. Linaria Elatine, Desf. (Fig. 734.) 



(Antirrhinum, Eng. Bot. t. 692.) 



A prostrate annual, with the stem and 

 leaves hairy, but less so than in the 

 round-leaned L., which this plant re- 

 sembles in most respects ; the branches 

 are, however, more slender, the leaves 

 angular or hastate at the base, the pe- 

 duncles much more slender, glabrous, 

 and spreading at right angles, the sepals 

 narrow-lanceolate, and the spur of the 

 corolla straight. 



In open woods, and heaths, in culti- 

 vated and waste places, in Europe and 

 western and central Asia, extending 

 northwards into southern Sweden. In 

 Britain, chiefly as a weed of cultivation, but probably truly indigenous 

 in southern England and Ireland ; rare in the north, and unknown in 

 Scotland. Fl. the whole season. 



Fig. 734. 



IY. SCROPHULARIA. SCROPHULARIA. 



Herbs, usually erect, with angular stems, opposite leaves, and ra- 

 ther small flowers, of a dingy purple or yellow, in loose cymes forming 



