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by the fall of an operculum. Seeds ovoid, with a network of 
strongly elevated ridges. Plant (with the exception of the pedun- 
cles up to the bend at their apex) clothed with short bristly-woolly 
hairs, intermixed on the stem with shorter gland-tipped ones. 
In cornfields and waste places, on chalky and sandy soils, more 
rarely on wet ground. Common in the South of England ; more 
rare in the North, extending to Yorkshire and Lancashire ; on the 
ballast-hills at the mouth of the Tyne, but there introduced. 
England, Ireland. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 
Central stem at first erect, afterwards prostrate ; branches very 
slender, prostrate, spreading in all directions, G inches to 2 feet or 
more long. Longest leaves not above 1 inch long ; earliest leaves 
opposite ; the rest alternate, decreasing in size towards the apex of 
the branches, truncate and hastate or sagittate-hastate at the base. 
Peduncles divaricate, very slender, stiff, bent round at the apex. 
Flowers |- inch long, of which the spur is nearly half, pale yellow, 
with the inner face of the upper lip violet, the lower lip slightly 
touched with violet towards the base ; spur nearly straight, forming 
an obtuse augle with the lower side of the corolla, directed outwards 
from the bending at the apex of the peduncle. Capsule about the 
size of a sweet-pea seed. Seeds irregularly honeycombed. Plant 
green, with the leaves slightly hairy, ciliated with longer hairs ; 
stem with long white jointed hairs and shorter gland-tipped ones; 
peduncles glabrous except above the bend ; sepals bristly hairy ; 
corolla with a few hairs. 
Sharp-leaved Fluellin. 
French, Linaire Elatine. German, Spiessblatlriger Frauenjlachs. 
SPECIES III.— LIN ARIA SPURIA. Mill 
Plate DCCCLVII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXX. Fig. 2. 
BiUot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsioc. Xo. 595. 
Antirrhinum spurium, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. G91. 
Annual. Stems slender, branched from the base ; branches 
elongated, procumbent, not rooting. Lower leaves and most of 
those on the main stem, up to those which have flowers in the 
axils, opposite or nearly so ; the rest alternate ; all very shortly 
stalked, oval, roundish-oval, or ovate-oval, not hastate or sagittate 
at the base, obtuse or sub-obtuse and apiculate, entire or remotely 
serrate - dentate. Pedicels ascending - spreading, elongated, the 
upper ones exceeding the leaves, clothed throughout with stiff 
