ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS, var. YOUNGIANUM. 
(Mr. Young's Snapdragon.) 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPIIULARIACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx in five oblong, perma- j with a leafy, branched stem. Leaves opposite or 
nent segments. Corolla ringent ; turned or elongated alternate, lanceolate, acute, smooth, entire. Floivers 
into a spur at the babe ; 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. — Plant perennial, suffruticose, 
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. 
Youngianum.— A variety with pale, rosy-purple 
flowers, striped with white. 
The variety of Snapdragon delineated opposite is a fit companion to associate with 
three or four others of which our pages contain portraits. Perhaps it is less fine than 
either of those which have preceded it, but, like them, it is worthy of the distinction 
conferred upon it. From the myriad of other varieties of A. majus, it only materially 
differs in its flowers, and, in this respect, from A. m. caryophylloides, at a first 
glance, it may not be thought very distinct. It, however, is unlike that variety, 
which, if we may judge from the unfrequency with which our path is crossed by it, is 
numbered among the things that were, in its flowers being less and having their 
colours, which are nearly similar, quite reversed in the order of their disposal. A 
feature in the character of the blossoms, worth particularizing, is that of their having 
hitherto shown no disposition to sport ; nor can they be regarded as having any incli- 
nation to do so, since two or three years, the length of time the variety has been in 
existence, has not overtaken them committing such a fault. The drawing from 
which the plates are prepared was taken from specimens procured in the nursery 
of Mr. Young, Epsom, where the variety has arisen, and after whom it is named. 
A. m. Youngianum, and similar things, are just the subjects for small gardens, or 
where little space can be spared for flowers, from their being complete in themselves, 
and not like plants with self-coloured blossoms, requiring those of an opposite hue to 
create contrast, and throw into view what would otherwise be comparatively hidden. 
