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2. L. Elat'ine (Mill.) ; I. ovate-hastate,\awei\. ovate, cor. -ipwr 
atraiffht, peduncles glabrous. — B. 692. St. 70. 11. — Fl. solitaiy, 
axillary, upon long slender stalks, small, yellow, with the upper 
lip purple. — Coni-lields. A. VII. — IX. FltteUm. E. I. 
3. L. spuria (Mill.) ; I. roimdish-orate, spur curved upwards, 
Eeduncles hairy. — E. 13. 691. St. 70. 12. — Fl. similar to the last 
ut larger. L. with here and there a small tooth. — In this 
species and the two preceding some of the fl. are often regular 
with 5 spurs or pai-tially so with 2, 3 or 4. — Gravelly and sandy 
corn-fields. A. VII.— IX. K 
* * Stems erect or rarely diffuse. 
4. L. minor (Desf.) ; I. linear-lanceolate blimt glandular- 
pubescent mostly alternate, Ji. solitary axillary, pedimcles 3 
times as long as the calyx, segments of upper cor. -hp diverging, 
seeds oblong silicate. — E. B. 2014. St. 70. 15. — Fl. small ; the 
tube, upper lip, and spur of the cor. purplish; lower lip yel- 
lowish. St. erect, 4 — 10 in. high, branched, glandular-pubescent. 
Lower 1. nearly spathulate. — Sandy and gravelly fields. A. VI. 
— vm. • E. s. I. 
[Z. Pelisseridna (Mill.); glabrous, 1. linear, the lower temate 
or quaternate upper alternate, sterile branches radical prostrate 
with temate lanceolate or ovate \.,Jl. racemose, peduncles as long 
as the bracts, sepals linear acute twice as long as the capsule, 
seeds nearly flat with a fringed wing one side smooth the other 
tubercular. — E. B. S. 2832. — Fl. purple vtith darker veins. St. 
one or more from each rooty erect, about a foot high. Caps, 
bilobed. — Jersey. A. VI.] , . - ^„ 
*5. L. supina (Desf.) ; glabrous, rachis ped. and sep. fflan- 
dular-hairy, 1. linear blunt mostly whorled, sep. lincar-spathulate 
shorter than the caps, or spur, seeds smooth nearly flat with a 
striate wing. — L. maritima DC. Icon. Gall. 12. — St. diifuse or 
ascending. Fl. capitate-racemose, yellow ; throat and spur with 
slender purple lines. Style entire. — Plymouth and Poole ; a 
ballast plant. Perhaps a native at Hayle, and St. Blazey's 
Bay, CoruwaU. A. VU. Vm. E. 
[Z. purpiirea (MiU.) ; glabrous, 1. linear-lanceolate scattered, 
lower 1. irregularly in foure, fl. narrowly racemose, sep. linear 
shorter than the caps, and long incurved spiu", seeds angular 
with a network of ele^'ated lines. — Fl. purple or yellow with the 
lips purole ; spur two or three times longer than the ped. which 
is usually shorter than the bract. St. erect, leafy. — Old walls : 
an escape froni gardens. P. VII. VIII.] E. 
6. L. ripens (Ait.) ; glabrous, 1. linear scattered or partly 
whorled, fl. racemose, sep. lanceolate as long as the spur but 
