The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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that of ihc corAnion toadflax, but fliarper at the 
point, and longer in proportion to their breadth: 
their colour is a freib gretn, and they have no 
footRalks. 
The flowers ftand in fpikes at the tops of the 
ftalks, and they are large and beautiful; they are 
whitifh, except the opening, which is of a beau- 
tiful purple. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Linaria pallida ri£lu purpu- 
no. Dillenius, and others, Linaria fiore albi- 
cants, 
6. Indented-leaved Toadflax. 
Linaria fcUis denlatis. 
The root is long, and rurnifned with rr.ar.y 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are large \ they rife in a thick 
tuft, and they remain when the ftalk is rifcn^ 
which is the cafe of few others of the toadfiay. 
kind. 
They are long, broad, of a beautiful green, 
and have no footilalks: they are narrowcft at the 
bafe, broadefl toward the end, and indented at 
the edges. 
The llalk rifes in the centre cf thcfe, and is 
round, firm, upright, and a foot and half h'gh: 
it is of a pale green, and fomctimes branched. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are not 
fo numerous as on moft of the others : they are 
long and narrow, and they have no footftalks : 
thofe toward the bottom of the ftalk are like the 
radical leaves, but narrower and more deeply 
dented ; thofe higher up are much deeper divided, 
and toward the top of the ftalk they confift only 
of two fide-divifions and a long point. 
The flowers ftand in ilcnder fpikes at the tops 
of the branches; they arc fmall, and of a deeper 
or paler blue, ,ind often white. 
The feed-vellels are large and round. 
It is a native of Italy, and jlowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Linaria bellidis folio. O- 
thers, Linaria odorata, and Ofyris odorata ptirpti- 
rcay or Linaria odorata purpurea. 
7. Little, blue Toadflax. 
Linaria pufilla crriilea. 
The root is fmall and flender, and has but few 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are pinnated, fmall, and beau- 
tiful : they are not very numerous : tliey ftand on 
long footftalks, and each confifts of about three 
pairs of pinna;, which are fmall, oval, and not 
at all indented. 
The ftalks are flender, ere£tj and fix or eighc 
inches high: they are not at all branched, and are 
of a pale yellowifli green. 
The leaves on them are few, and ftand alter- 
nately : they are long, narrow, ftiarp-pointed, 
not at all indented at the edges, and of a pale 
green : tliey have no footftalks, and they grow 
more pointing upwards than thofe of the gene- 
rality of the other fpecies. 
I'hc flowers ftand in Ipikes at the tops of the 
ftalks, and are large and blue. 
The fced-veflel is fmall and round ; and the 
feeds are large and blackifli. 
It is a native of the fouth of France, and 
flowers in May. 
Lobel calls it Linaria annua purpu,ro carukat 
Others, Linaria minor carulea. 
8. EluG trifoliate To-adfiax, 
Linaria trifolia carulea. 
This is a very elegant little plant, and dlf^'e^- 
ent from the larger trifoliate kind, not only irt 
the colour of the flowers, but in the whole face 
and afpecf. 
The root is long, flender, crooked, hard, and 
hung with a few fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, vve.ik, and about: 
eight or ten inches high. 
The leaves are broad and fliort on the lower 
part of the ftalk, and fomewhat longer and nar- 
rower upwards : they ftand by threes, and have 
no footftalks : their colour is a pale green, and 
they are not at all indented at the edges. 
The flowers ftand in thick, ftiort fpikes at the 
tops of the ftalks, and are fmall, and of a beau- 
tiful blue. 
The fecd-veficls are large and roundifli. 
The feeds are fmall and black. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers early in 
fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls it Linaria tryphylla ca;rulea, 
Columna, Linaria ccer idea apulc. We, Blue tri^ 
foliate toadflax^ 
GENUS in, 
SNAPDRAGON, 
A N r I R R H I NU M. 
THE flower conflfls of a Angle petal, and has the labiated fliape : it Is formed into a tube, twd 
lips and a palate, and it has no fpur. The upper lip is divided into two parts, and turned back 
at the edges : the lower lip is divided into three parts ; and the palate is large, and fliuts up the fpace 
between the two lips. The cup is formed of a fingle leaf^ divided into five parts, and remains when 
the flower is fallen : the feed veflTel is a Angle capfule, of an irregular form, refembling in fome degree 
the head of a calf, whence the plant has an Englifli name, calfsfnoiU; and it opens obliquely when 
the feeds are ripe. 
Linnsus places this among his didynnmia angiofpmnia ; there being two longer and two Iborter 
threads in the flower-, and tiic Jceds being contained in a capfuie. 
He make^ this and the li/raria the fame genus, as before obferved ; but the diftiadlion, in the want 
of the fpur of the flower, and the peculiar fhapc of the feed-vcflel, is evident. 
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