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5. L. Pelisseriaiia {'M'M.) ; glabrous,!, linear the lower ternate 
or quateniate upper alternate, sterile branches radical ])rostrate 
with ternate lanceolate or ovate roemose, peduncles as long 
as the bracts, sejjals linear acute twice as long as the capsule, 
seeds discoidal with a fimbriated wing smooth e.xtenially tuber- 
cular within. — E. B. S. 28.32. — FI. jmrple with darker veins. St. 
one or more frotn eaeli root, erect, about a foot high. Caps, 
bilobed. — -Jersey. A. VI. O. 
[*(). L. supina (Desf.); glabrous, raehis ped. .and sep. glan- 
dular-hairy, 1. linear blunt mostly wborled, sep. linear-spathulate 
shorter than the caps, or sjnir, seeds smooth discoidal with an 
orbicular striated margin. — L. miiritima DC. Icon. Gall. 12. — 
FI. ca])itate-racemose, yellow, throat and spur with slender purple 
lines. Style entire. Plant a few inches high, much branched at 
the base. L. narrow with indexed points. — Catdown Quarries, 
Plymouth, “ a true native.” Mr. I. W. N. Keys. A. VII. 
Vill.] E. 
7. L. repens (Ait.) ; glabrous, 1. linear scattered or jnirtly 
wborled, fl. racemose, sep. lanceolate as long as the spur but 
shorter than the caps., seeds angular with tran.sverse elevated lines. 
— if. B. 1253. L. striata iiC., Koch, ii.i. t. 42.3. — “Fl. bluish.” 
St. erect, branched, leafy, 1 — Ij foot high, slender. Seeds much 
smaller than those of L. vulgaris or L. italica. — Calcareous soils, 
])articularly near the se.a, rare. P. VII. — IX. 
[8. Jj. purpurea (Mill.); gl.abrous, 1. linear-lanceolate scattered, 
lower 1. irregularly in fours, 11. narrowly racemose, sep. linear 
shorter than the caps, and long incurved spur, seeds angular 
with a network of elevated lines. — Fl. j)urple or yellow' with the 
lij)s purple ; sj)ur two or three times longer than the ])ed. which 
is usually shorter than the bract. St. erect, leafy. — Old walls, 
an escape from g.ardens. P. VII. VIII.] E. 
9. Ij. italica (Trev.); glabrous, 1. scattered linear-lanceolate, 
fl. racemose, sep. lanceolate-oblong acuminate shorter than the 
eaj)s. or s]mr, seeds tubercular-scabrous with a smooth orbicular 
margin. — R. 1. 1. 421. L. genistifolia DC., not Mill. A. Bauhinii 
Gaud. See Land. Joiirn. Bot. i. 79- — Fl. yellow, intermediate 
in size between those of L. repens and L. vulgaris. St. erect, 
branched, leafv. Quite gl.abrous. — Banks. Shirley near South- 
ampton. Mr. H. C. Watson. P. VIII. IX. E. I. 
[L. sepium (Allman in Proc. R. I. Acad. Jun. 12, 1843) having 
its sep. lanceolate, seeds with three prominent smooth wings and fl. 
with j)uri)le lines, (found by tbe river Bandon, Co. Cork, Dr. 
Allman ; and near Penn n, Cornwall, Mr. IVat.son) is scarcely 
more than a variety of L. italica uidess the additional wing to 
the seeds should prove constant.] 
