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ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS CARYOPHYLLOIDES. 
(carnation-like snapdragon.) 
ORDER. 
ANGIOSPERMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
SCROPHULARINE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted. Corolla ringent, closed by a projecting palate, protuberant 
(gibbous) not spurred at tbe base. Capsule witb an oblique base without valves, and opening at 
the extremity by three pores. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen Leibaceous perennial from one to two feet high, mostly with 
large purplish-red, but sometimes nearly white, flowers. Leaves alternate lanceolate, uppermost 
opposite, smooth. Flowers produced in spikes. Segments calyx ovate blunt. 
Var. CARYOPHYLLOIDES — Plant TCiOXQ bushy and compact than the parent species. Flowers white, beau- 
tifully striped with red. 
The subject of the accompanying drawing is a very fine variety of a plant witli 
which most of our readers must be familiar, as it abounds on decayed walls and the 
ruins of old buildings in this country. Our gardens have already been enriched 
with many beautiful varieties of this plant, but the one here figured is far superior 
to any we have previously seen. It differs from all others in the colours of its 
fiowers, which approximate in beauty to the choicest carnation ; although, in this 
respect, it is exceedingly liable to sport, being occasionally found with pure white 
flowers, and sometimes merely spotted with red ; but generally they are striped in 
a similar manner to a carnation, from which circumstance it derives its name. 
This is an extremely elegant and showy border plant, and, if proper attention 
is bestowed with regard to its cultivation, may be made to flower from the com- 
mencement of the spring till the close of the autumn ; thus ornamenting our flower 
gardens nearly the whole of the year. The following brief directions will be found 
useful for effecting this purpose. In the month of September, cuttings should be 
taken of the young shoots of those plants which are growing in the open border : 
and after planting them in pots, in a light soil, they should be placed in a slight 
heat till they have struck ; when they should be potted singly into small pots, and 
CLASS. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
