LINA'RIA CYMBALA^RIA. 
IVY-LEAVED TOAD-FLAX. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARIN^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Englaad. 
6 inches. 
June, Oct. 
Perennial. 
Old walls. 
No. 300. 
Linaria, from linum, flax; from the resemblance 
of some of their species. Cymbalaria, from the 
Greek kymbe, a boat, an old name for this plant; 
retained by Liimeus, when he called it Antirrhinum 
cymbalaria. A name wliich has been superseded 
by the necessary division of the genus. 
Botanists have doubted whether the Linaria cymba- 
laria is a native of England, or whether it was intro- 
duced from Italy. A correspondent of Mr. Loudon’s, 
in his interesting Magazine of Natoal History, says 
that he found it on a rock, near Barmouth, where it 
was not likely to have escaped from a garden. This 
produced some observations from another correspon- 
dent, Mr. Dovaston, who vpishing that none may be 
misled in imagining that it is a native, says, “I here 
declare that several years ago, in one of my numer- 
ous tours through that and other mountainous regions, 
I carried a box of seeds of this beautifid, graceful, 
and tenacious plant, which I distributed in appropriate 
places on rocks, ruins, churches, castles, and bridges, 
where I have since beheld it thriving in tresses and 
festoons to my fullest satisfaction. I particularly re- 
member sowing it on the rock he mentions.” 
Clans. 
DIDYNAMIA 
