732 DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. Antirrhinum 
(E. Boi. 399. E.)— Riv. Mon. 92. 1 , Pedicularis — Pet. 36. 3— Ger. 913. 
Stem about a foot high, angular, purplish. Leaves winged. Leajits wing- 
cleft. Flowers solitary, sessile, axillary. Calyx bilabiate, opening side- 
wise ; segments cloven and jagged, two of them bordered with leafy 
appendages. Blossom purple, sometimes white; helmet with a little 
tooth on each side, not notched at the end; lower lip fringed with fine 
soft hairs. 
Marsh Lousewort. (Irish: Lnss liiah. Welsh: Melawgywaun. E.) 
Marches, ditches, moist meadows, and pastures. P. June—July.* 
P. sylvat'ica. (Stems several, simple, spreading: E.) calyx oblong, 
angular, smooth: lip of the blossom heart-shaped. 
(E. Bot. 400. E.)— Clus. ii. 111. 1— Dod. 556. 1— Lob. Obs. 431. 3, and Ic. 
i. 748. 2— Ger. Em. 1071. 2— Park. 713. 1—17. Ox. xi. 23. 13 —FI. Dan. 
22 5 — Pet. 36. 4— Trag. 250 — Lonic. i. 148. 2. 
Stem three to six inches high. Branches trailing. Floral-leaves deeply 
divided: segments toothed. Calyx angular, green within, purplish 
without, nearly half as long as the blossom, one of the clefts much deeper, 
segments toothed, that opposite to the deepest cleft the narrowest. 
Blossom purple, rather large and showy, much more slender than the 
calyx. Tube compressed. Upper lip with a little tooth on each side. 
Lower lip with three divisions, the middle segment a little smaller. Fila¬ 
ments, the two taller hairy towards the top. ( Root-leaves simple, egg- 
shaped, scolloped. E.) 
(Dwarf Lousewort. Irish: Moahlin Monah. Welsh : Melsugn y borfa ; 
Melycwm. E.) Wet pastures and heaths. P. June—Juiy.f 
Var. 2. FI. alb. Blossoms white. 
Near Redruth, Cornwall, towards the sea. Mr. Watt. Near Berkham- 
sted. Mr. Woodward. (Plas Newydd farm, Llangoed, Anglesey. Rev. 
Hugh Davies. E.) 
(A remarkable variety has been gathered in Sutherland by the Marquis of 
Stafford, and also by Messrs. Hooker and Borrer, with a solitary flower, 
which instead of its proper ringent form, with two long and two short 
stamens, has a salver-shaped regular blossom, with six stamens, four of 
which are longer than the others. Goleopsis Tetrahii, and the various 
species of Antirrhinum have been observed also to exhibit similar appear¬ 
ances occasionally. Linn. Tr. vol. 10. p. 227. E.) 
ANTXRRHI'NUM.J Calyx with five divisions : Bloss. closed 
by a palate, either projecting at the base, or spurred: 
* This plant is an unwholesome guest in meadows, being very disagreeable to cattle, (and 
sometimes almost overpowering the grasses. The spread of its seeds should be prevented 
as far as possible. E.) Goats eat it. Horses, sheep, and cows refuse it. Swine are not 
fond of it. 
t The expressed juice, or a decoction of this plant, has been used with advantage as an 
injection for sinuous ulcers. It is said that if the healthiest flock of sheep be fed with it, 
they become scabby and scurfy in a short time ; the wool will become loose, and they will 
be over-run with vermin. Cows and swine refuse it. 
t (From hr), instead of; and p)v , a snout; (Calves’-snout,) so called because the figure 
of the flower in certain species, (e, g. A. Orontiuni ) 3 resembles the snout of a calf. E.) 
