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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. 
