ANTIRRHI'NUM MA JUS. 
GREAT SNAP-DRAGON. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA . 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARINiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
18 inches. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
Old walls. 
No. 279. 
The name Antirrhinum, is compounded of the two 
Greek words, anti, equal to; and rin, a nose; 
expressive of the resemblance which the flowers 
bear to the noses of some animals. Majus, from the 
Latin, great. 
The great Snapdragon, may be frequently ob-* 
served, as an indigenous plant, in rich profusion and 
variety, on old walls, and in chalky districts. Its 
prevailing colours are crimson, of different shades; 
also white or yellow, and less frequently party- 
coloured, as in our figure. 
We have rarely seen this plant naturalized in the 
way it deserves. Few gardens are without a fence 
wall, or a house wall, on one or more sides of it. 
The excavation of a little mortar, from one of its 
joints, forms at once the Snapdragon’s home ; and 
amongst old loose masonry, it needs only be planted 
once ; its progeny will continue to inhabit there, till 
ejected by force. 
The author of The Journal of a Naturalist ob- 
serves that “The flowers of these plants are perfect 
insect traps. Multitudes of small creatures seek an 
entrance into the corolla through the closed lips. 
