272 ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS, var. YOUNGIANUM. 
It is scarcely requisite to observe, that our plant must be increased by cuttings, 
if its character is wished to be perpetuated ; and better-flowering plants than those 
are which continue from year to year would be obtained by raising them annually. 
Anti, similar, and rhin, nose, owing to the resemblance of the flowers of most of 
the species to the snout of some animal, originates Antirrhinum. 
