LINARIA BIPARTITA. 
TWO-PARTED TOAD-FLAX. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA . 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARINAi 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Barbary. 
1 foot. 
June, July. 
Annual. 
in 1815. 
No. 272. 
The word Linaria, owes its origin to linum, flax ; 
and is used in consequence of the resemblance that 
exists between the herbage of some of the plants of 
the two genera. Bipartita, signifying two-parted, 
alludes to the two divisions, or lobes, into which the 
helmet, or upper part of the blossom, is divided. 
This is a neat little annual plant, which may be 
grown without peculiar care. Its upright stems re- 
quire no support ; they blossom freely, and will not 
be found intrusive. By the produce of yoilng side 
shoots, it sometimes remains in flower two or three 
months. The colour of the flower is variable, from 
a darker purple than our specimen, to almost a 
yellow ; we have chosen the tint which, with us, it 
most generally assumes ; in preference to that which 
would appear most attractive. 
Seed of the Linaria bi partita, should be sown in 
March, or early in April ; and the finest plants will 
be produced in a soil that is rich, and rather strong. 
In dry situations, seeds that are shed from the plant 
will vegetate in the following spring, which shows 
that autumnal sowing would succeed, and be pro- 
ductive of earlier flowers. 
Loudon’s Ency. of Plants, p. 526. 
