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A N T I R R H I N U M Cymbalaria.
Ivy-leaved Snapdragon.
D ID Y JY A M I A Angiofpermia,
Gen. Char. Cal. five-leaved. Cor. with a prominence
at its bafe, pointing downwards and bearing
honey. Cap/, two-celled.
Spec. Char. Leaves heart-fbaped, five-lobed, alternate,
fmooth. Stems procumbent.
Syn. Antirrhinum Cymbalaria. Lirm. Sp. PI. 851.
Hudf. 271. With. 549. Relh. 242. Sibtb. 194.
Curt. Lond.fafc. x. t. 45.
Linaria hederaceo folio glabro, feu Cymbalaria.
Rail Syn. *282.
Cymbalaria italica. Ger. em. 529. fig. reverted.
.A .LTH O U GH originally introduced into gardens from Italy,
this elegant little plant has long been perfectly naturalized with
us upon old walls about the fhores of the Thames, as well as
at Oxford, Cambridge, and in fhort wherever there are anv
long eftablifhed botanic gardens; for no weed in the world
takes more abfolute pofiefiion, when once it is well rooted. It
is perennial, forming a thick pendent tapeftry, either in fun-
fhine or thade, and flowering from May to the end of autumn.
The Items are trailing, very much branched, round, leafy.
Every part of the herb is fmooth, and often purplilh. Leaves
generally alternate, on longilh curved foot-ftalks, heart-fhaped,
five-lobed, of a darkifh green, and not unaptly compared to
thofe of ivy. Stipulae none. Flowers folitary, on Ample
axillary ftalks, purple with a yellow downy palate, and a fhort
pale fpur. The capfule burlts at the top in a lacerated manner,
and contains feveral blackifh feeds very much wrinkled.
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