ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS FLORE PLENO. 
(Double blood-coloured Snap-dragon.) 
Class. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order, 
SCROPHUL ARIACEiE . 
Generic Character. — Calyx in five oblong perma- 
nent segments. Corolla ringent ; turned or elongated 
into a spur at the base ; upper lip cloven and reflexed ; 
lower obtuse, three-lobed, with an elevated palate, 
hollow underneath. Capsule roundish or oval, obtuse, 
two-celled, bursting unequally at the summit. Seeds 
numerous, roundish, angular, or winged. 
SPECiFic Character.— PZan< perennial, suffruticose, 
with a leafy branched stem. Leaves opposite or alter- 
nate, lanceolate, acute, smooth, entire. Flowers in 
dense clusters, beset with ovate bracts. Calyx un- 
equally five-cleft, ovate, concave. Corolla with a 
rounded prominence at the base. Seeds black and 
wrinkled. 
Var. Flore pleno. — Fine deep sanguine double 
flowers. 
Some time ago we figured one of the most striking of the many garden varieties, 
which the long-continued increase by seeds has been so successful in producing. 
That variety, A, M. caryophylloides is peculiar for the rich and distinct colours of 
its bizarre blossoms. We have now the pleasure of introducing another variety of 
a different character, but no less charming and deserving. 
Double flowers are not a new thing amongst Antirrhina, but they are exceed- 
ingly scarce. We find mention made of one cultivated in the gardens of the 
French, in he Botaniste Cultwateur of M. du Mont de Corset, a work published 
many years since, but no remark is given relative to its colour. We have also seen 
double rose-coloured varieties, but we believe that the present is superior to any 
yet obtained in the depth and richness of its purple-crimson blossoms. 
The extreme prolificacy and the facility of increasing Snapdragons, together 
with the little care required in their culture, and their highly ornamental flowers, 
have obtained for them an acceptable standing in most gardens. And now that 
the almost endless variety of colour which they display, of every intermediate 
shade from the deepest crimson to the purest white, some discrimination in the 
choice of the most deserving appears to be in a high degree requisite. And we are 
persuaded that the double-flowered variety delineated on the opposite page, with 
its rich-coloured flowers, and repletion of petal, combined with the intensely dark 
glossy foliage, will obtain a place amongst the most conspicuous. 
It was raised accidentally from seed in the nursery of Messrs. Young, of 
