LINARIA DALMA'TICA. 
DALMATIAN TOAD-FLAX. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARINEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Persia. 
3 feet. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1731. 
No. 570. 
Linaria is a word merely altered from Linum, 
from the similarity of the herbage of some of their 
species. The specific name Dalmatica was used in 
allusion to the native country of the plant, Dalma- 
tia. Although we date the introduction of this 
plant to our own country as far back as 1731, it 
was, we believe lost to British gardens, till the year 
1832, when seeds of it were collected in Persia, and 
presented by Sir Henry Willock to the London 
Horticultural Society. 
It is an upright growing handsome perennial,very 
ornamental in the flower garden, and its flowers 
continue long in beauty. The peculiar conforma- 
tion of the corolla of Linaria and Antirrhinum is 
very interesting. They formerly constituted one 
genus only, but the absence of the spur from the 
corolla of Antirrhinum, and its differently formed 
capsule have been considered distinctions too prom- 
inent to admit of their continued union. 
Linaria Dalmatica seems to be perfectly hardy, 
although hitherto considered a frame plant. It 
may be increased by division at the roots, or by 
seeds, which are produced abundantly. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 16. 
