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LINARIA TRIORNITHOPHORA. 



(Three-Bird-Bearing Linaria.) 

 LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL ORDER. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMA. SCROPHULAMNE2E. — (JllSS.) 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Linari (Toubn.) Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla personata, tubo abbreviato inflato, basi 

 calcarato, palato ad faucem prominulo, interdum depresso. Stamina basi pilosa. Stylus apice 

 incrassatus vel bifidus, stigmate emarginato vel bilobo. Capsula operculis circumscissus vel 

 plurimis valvae formibus aut dentiformibus dehiscens. Herbse vel rariiis suffrutices. Folia 

 alterna opposita vel verticillata integerrima, lobatave. Flores ad summitates ramorum racemosi 

 seu spicato-racemosi, vel solitarii axillares. — Bentham Scroph. Indie, p. 19. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla personate, tube inflated, spurred at the base, having the palate a 

 little prominent at the throat, sometimes depressed. Stamens hairy at the base. Style club- 

 shaped at the apex or divided. Stigma notched, or 2-lobed. Capsule dehiscing by lids cut 

 round, or by valvular or tooth-form pores. Plants herbaceous, rarely shrubby. Leaves alternate, 

 opposite or verticillate, entire or lobed. Flowers racemose or spicato-racemose at the tops of the 

 branches, or solitary and axillary. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



L. Triornithophora ; herbacea, glabra, ramosissima ; foliis sessilibus verticillatis quaternis, vel 

 ternis ovatis acuminatis venosis integerrimis ; pedunculis verticillatis ; floribus verticillatis, 

 et subcymosis purpureis ; labello profunde tripartito, palato luteo. 



Descr. — Herbaceous, smooth, much branched ; leaves sessile, whorled in fours or threes, 

 ovate, acuminate, veined, entire ; peduncles whorled ; flowers whorled or somewhat cymose, 

 purple ; lip deeply three-parted, palate yellow. 



Linaria triornithophora. — Willd. sp. Plant. 



Antirrhinum trionithophora. — Lin. sp. Pi. Bot. Mag. t.' 52. 



This plant, although long cultivated in this country, is by no means so well 

 known as it deserves to be, for we believe it to be one of the most beautiful of all 

 the Linarias at present in cultivation ; it is, at the same time, so free a flowerer, 

 that its branches are covered with blossoms for months in the year. It is a native 

 of Portugal and of North America, and was introduced about the year 1710. 

 It was treated by Edward Woodford, Esq., of Vauxhall, London (from whose 

 plant the drawing was made for the Botanical Magazine) as a greenhouse peren- 

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