LINA'RIA SILENIFO'LIA. 
SILENE-LEAVED TOADFLAX. 
Class. 
D1DYNAMIA. 
Order. 
ANGIOS PBRMIA . 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULAIUACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Armenia. 
3 feet. 
May toAug-. 
Perennial. 
in 1819. 
No. 858. 
The name of this genus has been several times 
noticed; and the specific name explains itself 
sufficiently. 
A species of Linaria was made known many 
years ago, under the title of genistaefolia, a native of 
Austria and Caucasus, to which the present plant 
has, by some authors, been referred as a variety. 
It is retained by Fischer as a distinct species, and 
as such is known in our gardens ; still the differ- 
ence is rather in its general appearance than in 
botanical distinction. It is of more rigid upright 
growth than genistaefolia. 
The Linarias are mostly plants of neat upright 
habit, and occupying but little room; notwith- 
standing, as may be expected out of upwards of a 
hundred species, some are of an opposite habit. 
Linaria silenifolia is a very elegant and upright 
plant, continuing in flower at least three months of 
the summer; and, although perfectly hardy, it is 
now more rarely met with than formerly. 
It should be planted in a light soil, in a 
situation that is rather dry than otherwise, and 
may be divided in spring or autumn. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 4, 52fl. 
