144 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Calyx-segments elliptical-strapshaped, obtuse, clothed with gland- 
tipped hairs. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx ; spur shorter 
than the corolla, blunt, straight, making an obtuse angle with the 
lower side of the corolla. Capsule ovoid-globose, gibbous on the 
under side at the base, opening at the apex by 2 semicircular 
pores, which are split at margin into several unequal teeth. 
Seeds oblong-obovate, with longitudinal acute slightly anasto- 
mosing ridges. Plant dull-green, clothed with gland-tipped hairs, 
especially on the stem, peduncles, and sepals. 
In cornfields, especially in chalky and sandy districts. Not un- 
common in England, at least in the South ; rare in Scotland, where 
it only occurs in the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, and Lanark ; 
also said to be naturalized in Kinross-shire ; Cork, Carlow, and 
near Dublin, Ireland.* 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stem rather wiry, 3 to 18 inches high, often very much 
branched, with the branches ascending. Leaves \ to 1 inch long, 
narrowed at the base, the lower ones indistinctly stalked, those in 
the axils of which the flowers arc produced not differing from the 
others. Elowers \ inch long, glandular-hairy, pale reddish-purple, 
with the lower lip yellowish-white. Capsule oblique, somewhat 
like that of Antirrhinum. Seeds similar to those of L. Cymbalaria. 
Least Toadflax. 
French, Linaire Naine. German, Kleiner Frauenjlachs. 
Tribe V.— GEATIOLE^E. 
Corolla tubular, bilabiate, not saccate or spurred at the base ; 
upper lip generally, but not always, covering the lower in aestiva- 
tion. Stamens 4, didynamous. Inflorescence simple, indefinite. 
Leaves, or at least the lower ones, opposite. 
* The publication of Dr. D. Moore and Mr. A. G. More's important work, " Con- 
tributions towards a Cybele Hibernica," enables me for the future to give the general 
distribution of species in Ireland. 
