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five to six times as long' as the ealyx. Capsule smooth, glandular* 
pubescent, twice as long as the ealyx, convex on the upper side, 
gibbous at the base on the lower. Seeds muricated with anasto- 
mosing ridges. 
On old walls and rocks, naturalized. Not unfrequent in the 
South of England. Completely naturalized at Catdown Quarries, 
near Plymouth, and on the chalky banks of the railway-cutting 
between Greenhithc and Northfleet, Kent. 
[England, Scotland, Ireland.] Shrub, or perennial. 
Summer and Autumn. 
A soft-wooded shrub with much-branched stems 1 to 3 feet 
high, which are decumbent and glabrous at the base. Leaves 
opposite, or the upper ones alternate, generally with fascicles of 
leaves at the base, 1 to 3 inches long, varying much in breadth. 
Elowers in a close spikelike raceme at the extremity of the 
branches 1^ inch long, pale purplish-rose or nearly white in the 
perfectly naturalized state, but sometimes crimson, white and 
crimson or yellow when it has but lately escaped from cultivation ; 
upper lip of the corolla with 2 obtuse oblique lobes with spreading 
margins ; palate yellow, its point reaching to the division between 
the lobes of the upper lip. Capsule J inch long. Plant dull-green, 
glabrous below, the upper part of stem, pedicels, and calyx, with 
gland-tipped hairs. 
Common Snapdragon. 
French, Muflier d, Grandes Fleurs. German, Grosses Lowenmaul. 
This curious plant is well known by every village child, as well as in every garden, 
by the name of bunny, rabbit 's-moitth, bull-dogs, &c. It is bitter and stimulant. Its 
common name well expresses its form, for when pressed open it looks like the mouth 
of some fabulous creature — possibly a dragon — snapping or biting. In olden time it 
was valued as a preservative against witchcraft, a reputation it still holds in some 
parts of the Continent. In Russia it is still cultivated for the sake of the oil yielded 
by its seeds, said to be little inferior to olive-oil. The leaves are sometimes used as 
cataplasms to tumours and ulcers. The flowers form perfect insect-traps, as the lips 
easily yield to a slight pressure from without ; but when once wichin, the insect finds 
escape impossible without gnawing a hole at the side of its prison. 
SPECIES II.— A NTIRRHINUM ORONTIUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCLIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXVIIL Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1723. 
Annual. Stem erect, slightly branched ; branches erect, or 
decumbent at the base. Leaves opposite or alternate, elliptical- 
strapshaped, attenuated at the base, but scarcely petiolate ; the 
