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as the calyx ; spur three or four times shorter than the coroila, 
blunt, straight, making a very obtuse angle with the under side 
of the corolla. Capsule sub-globular, half as long again as the 
calyx, each valve again 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 banks, waste places, and by roadsides. Rather rare. In 
the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Hants, Sussex, Berks, Beds, 
Oxon, Gloucester, and Carmarthen. Kerry, Cork, and Carlow, 
Ireland. In Scotland, it occurs in Ayrshire and Forfarshire, but 
no doubt introduced. It was formerly abundant on the debris of 
Salisbury Craigs, Edinburgh, but evidently not native there. 
England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Rootstock creeping and branched. Stem rather wiry, 1 to 3 
feet high, often decumbent at the base. Leaves very numerous, 
4 to \\ inch long, variable in breadth, often in verticels of 4 or 5 
or even 6 at the base of the stem and on the barren shoots. 
Flowering-stem often branched, so that the inflorescence becomes 
a lax panicle. Flowers § inch long without the spur, white tinged 
with lilac, striped with purplish-blue, the stripes sometimes 
anastomosing; palate usually with a yellow spot in the middle. 
Capsule about the size of a white-mustard seed, sub-didymous. 
Seeds minute, shaped like those of L. purpurea, but more truncate 
at the apex. 
This species is sometimes confounded with L. purpurea, but it 
is a smaller and more slender plant, with a distinctly creeping 
rootstock ; the calyx-segments are broader, and the flowers are 
fewer, smaller, and nearly white striped with lilac, and the spur 
acute, not half the length of that of L. purpurea and not curved. 
Striped Toadflax, 
French, Liuaire ct Racine rionpanle. 
SPECIES VIII.— L INARIA VULGARIS. Mill. 
Plates DCCCCLXII. DCCCCLXIII. DCCCCLXIV. 
Antirrhinum Linaria, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. Nos. G58, 260. 
Perennial. Rootstock creeping. Stems several or solitary from 
the nodes of the rootstock ; all erect, simple or branched. Leaves 
all scattered in irregular whorls of 3 towards the base ; all sessile, 
strapshaped, elliptical-strapshaped, or narrowly-elliptical, entire. 
Flowers numerous, in a dense raceme, which elongates slightly after 
