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simple or branched. Leaves scattered, the lower ones often in 
whorls of 3 to (5 ; all sessile, strapshaped, entire. Flowers very 
numerous, in a dense raceme, which elongates much after flowering. 
Pedicels about as long as the calyx. Calyx-segments strapshaped- 
Bubulate, glabrous. Corolla about four times as long as the calyx ; 
spur nearly as long as the corolla, acute, curved, making an 
olitr.se angle with the under side of the corolla. Capsule sub- 
globular, half as long again as the calyx, each valve splitting 
into 3. Seeds oblong, attenuated towards the base, triquetrous, 
without a wing, covered with a network of strongly elevated lines. 
Plant glaucous and glabrous. 
On old walls. Naturalized in many places in England and the 
South of Scotland. 
[England, Scotland.] Biennial or Perennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Ftootstock almost woody but not creeping, short-lived but 
generally flowering more than once. Stems stout, 18 inches to 
4 feet high. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, generally scattered, except 
at the base, where they are more or less distinctly whorled, the 
number in the whorl varying greatly. Corolla f inch long without 
the spur, deep bluish-purple, the tube striped with darker purple. 
Capsule sub-didymous, about the size of a white-mustard seed. 
Seeds minute, black, shaped like one of the segments of an orange. 
'Purple Toadflax. 
French, Lincdre Purpurine. 
SPECIES VII.— LIN ARIA RE PENS. Mill. 
Plate DCCCCLXI. 
Reich. Ic. EL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXXIV. Fig. 2. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 58. 
Linaria striata, B.C. Benth. in B. C. Prod. p. 278. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 
ed. ii. p. 601. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 579. Reich JU. 1. e. 
Antirrhinum repens, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1253. 
A. repens et A. Monspessulanum, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 584. 
Perennial. Ptootstock creeping. Stems several or numerous 
from the crown of the rootstock, all erect, usually branched. 
Leaves scattered, the lower ones in whorls of 4 to G ; all sessile, 
strapshaped or elliptical - strapshaped, entire. Plowers rather 
numerous, in a rather dense raceme, which elongates much after 
flowering. Pedicels longer than the calyx. Calyx-segments strap- 
shaped-triangular, glabrous. Corolla three or four times as long 
