Antirrhinum elatine. 
Sharp-pointed F luellin. 
ANTIRRHINUM Lin. Gin. PI. Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Rati' Syn. Gen. 18. Herbs fructu sicco singulari, plore monopetalo irregu. 
LARI. 
ANTIRRHINUM foliis haftatis alternis, caulibus procumbentibus. Lmn. Sf- PI. 85. 
ANTIRRHINUM caule procumbente, foliis haftatis, imis conjugatis, fupenoribus alternis. Haller Kfi. V. 1 . 
p. 14. 6. «. 340. 
ELATINE folio acuminato, in bafi auriculato, flore luteo. Bauhm Pin. 253. 
ELATINE folio acuminato. Parkinfon 553. 
ELATINE altera. Gerard emac. 623. 
LINARIA Elatine difta, folio acuminato. Rail Syn. * *282. 
ANTIRRHINUM Elatine. Hudfon FI. Angi. p. 237. ScopoK FL Carmol. p. 444- OEder.Fl. Dan. Ic. 4:6. 
TOTA PLANTA pilofa. 
RADIX fibrofa, annua, albida, 
CAULES numerofi, teretes, fubramofi, in junioribus 
plantis fubere&i, tandem procumbentes, ad duos 
pedes et ultra flepe extenfi. 
FOLIA petiolata, ima fubrotunda, oppofita ; proxima 
dentata, alterna ; quae lequuntur magna ex parte 
haflata. 
PEDUNCULI axillares, alterni, penduli, longitudine 
foliorum. 
CALYX : Perianthium quinquepartitum, perfiflens, 
fegmentis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, fg. 1 . 
COROLLA monopetala, lingens, flava; tubus breviffi- 
mus ; limbus bilabiatus, labium fuperius bifi- 
dum, fegmentis obtufis, inferne purpureis, in- 
ferius trifidum, fegmentis obtufis, medio pro- 
ductiore, et paulo minore ; palatum prominu- 
lum, flavum, fg. 2; Nectarium lubulatum, 
flavum, longitudine legmentorum calycis,/#. 3. 
STAMINA: Filamenta quatuor, quorum duo paulo 
longiora; Anther® purpureo-fulcae, coalef- 
centes, jig. 4. 
PISTILLUM : Germen fubrotundum, comprefliim, a- 
pice villofum ; Stylus filiformis, longitudine 
flaminum, apice incraflatus, uncinatus ; Stig- 
ma fimplex, fg. 5, 6, 7. 
PERICARPIUM: Capsula rotunda, bilocularis, bival- 
vis, valvis deciduis, foramine magno in utroque 
latere capful* relicto, valvas orbiculatae, con- 
cavae, jig. 8, 9, 10. 
SEMINA nigra, rugofa, 8—10 in fingulo loculamento, 
fg- 
t THE WHOLE PLANT hairy, 
j ROOT fibrous, annual, whitifh. 
$ STALKS numerous, round, a little branched, in the 
young plants nearlv upright, in the old ones 
trailing on the ground, frequently to the dif- 
f tance of two feet or more. 
I LEAVES {landing on foot-ftalks, the bottom leaves 
£ roundifh and oppofite, the next to thofe are in- 
dented and alternate, and thofe which follow 
I are for the moft part haftate. 
I PEDUNCLES alternate, pendulous, the length of, and 
proceeding from the Ake of the leaves. 
* CALYX: a Perianthium divided into five fegments 
S perfifting, the fegments lanceolate, fg. 1 . 
I COROLLA monopetalous, ringent, and yellow ; the 
i tube very fliort ; the limb divided into two 
I lips, the upper lip bifid, the fegments obtufe, 
I and purple underneath ; the lower lip trifid, 
the fegments obtufe, the middle one longeft 
I and leaft ; the palate prominent and yellow, 
£ fg. 2; the Nectarium the length of the feg- 
ments of the Calyx, fmall and tapering, fg. 
I STAMINA four Filaments, two of which are a little 
I longer than the others ; the Anther.® pur- 
% plifh-brown, adhering together, fg. 4. 
I PISTILLUM : the Germen roundifh, flattened, at top 
I hairy ; the Style filiform, the length of the 
Stamina, thickened at top and hooked ; the 
I Stigma Ample, fg. 5, 6, 7. 
4 SEED-VESSEL: a round Capsule of two cavities 
I and two valves, the valves round and concave, 
% on falling off leaving a large hole in each fide 
i of the Capfule, fg. 8, 9, 10. 
I SEEDS black, and wrinkled, from 8 to 10 in each cavi- 
* ty,j%. 12. 
THIS fpecies of Antirrhinum grows generally in Corn-fields, and in fome parts of England is much more 
common than it is with us; in the Corn-fields about Peckham I have generally found it in bloom in July, 
Auguft and September and even later ; it very much refembles the Antirrhinum fpurium in its general habit, 
but is readily diftinguifhed by its pointed leaves. Some Writers have confidered it as poflefled of healing proper- 
ties, and affirm that the expreflea juice of the plant, or its diftilled water taken inwardly and applied exter- 
nally, has checked and cured fpreading and cancerous Ulcers; and Ray relates a Story from Lobel of a poor 
Barber, who by the above ufe of this plant, faved his Nofe, which had been condemned to be cut off by fe- 
veral eminent Phyficians and Surgeons. 
