ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS FLORE PLENO. 
(Double blood -coloured Snap-dragon.' 
Class. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARIACEtE. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character.— Calyx in five oblong perma- 
ent segments. Corolla I'ingent ; turned or elongated 
ito a spur at the base ; upper lip cloven and reflexed ; 
wer obtuse, three-lobed, with an elevated palate, 
I illow underneath. Capsule roundish or oval, obtuse, 
jro-celled, bursting unequally at the summit. Seeds 
lmerous, roundish, angular, or winged. 
! Specific Character .—Plant 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. 
Far. Flore pleno. — F ine deep sanguine double 
flowers. 
Some time ago we figured one of the most striking of the many garden varieties, 
hich the long-continued increase by seeds has been so successful in producing, 
hat variety, A . M. caryophylloides is peculiar for the rich and distinct colours of 
s bizarre blossoms. We have now the pleasure of introducing another variety of 
different character, but no less charming and deserving. 
Double flowers are not a new thing amongst Antirrhina, but they are exceed- 
gly scarce. We find mention made of one cultivated in the gardens of the 
rench, in Le Botaniste Cultivateur of M. du Mont de Corset, a work published 
any years since, but no remark is given relative to its colour. We have also seen 
mble rose-coloured varieties, but we believe that the present is superior to any 
it obtained in the depth and richness of its purple-crimson blossoms. 
The extreme prolificacy and the facility of increasing Snapdragons, together 
ith the little care required in their culture, and their highly ornamental flowers, 
-ve obtained for them an acceptable standing in most gardens. And now that 
e almost endless variety of colour which they display, of every intermediate 
ade from the deepest crimson to the purest white, some discrimination in the 
oice of the most deserving appears to be in a high degree requisite. And we are 
rsuaded that the double-flowered variety delineated on the opposite page, with 
j rich-coloured flowers, and repletion of petal, combined with the intensely dark 
I }ssy foliage, will obtain a place amongst the most conspicuous. 
It was raised accidentally from seed in the nursery of Messrs. Young, of 
