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A N T I R R H I N UM Linaria.
Yellow Toad-flax.
D I D Y N A M IA Angiofperviia.
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-leaved. Cor. with a prominence
at its bafe pointing downwards and bearing honey.
Capf a-celled.
Spec. Char. Leaves linear-lanceolate, crowded. Stem
eredt. Spikes terminal. Flowers imbricated.
Calyx fmooth, fhorter than the fpur.
Syn. Antirrhinum Linaria. Linn. Sp. PI. 859. Hudf.
273. With. 551. Hull. 139. Relh. 243. Sibth. 195.
jibbot. 138. Curt. Lond. fafc. 1. t. 47* Mart. FI.
Ruß. t. 93. Woodv. Suppl. t. 221.
Linaria lutea vulgaris. Raii Syn. *281.
T h e uniformity of our plan requires the exhibition of this
plant in a natural Hate, though we have already figured its curious
variety the Peloria, t. 260. We have the lefs reluctance
to add ours to the many plates of A. Linaria already exiftmg,
as we have the good fortune of being able to reprefent from nature
one of its flowers only, the lowermoft on our fpike, advancing
a ftep towards the Peloria. This, if any new proof
were wanting, would abfolutely decide that production to be
merely a variety.
The common yellow Toad-flax grows frequently in hedges
and the borders of fields, in a barren gravelly foil, and though
often a troublefome weed, muft be allowed to be a flower of
great beauty. It blofloms in June and July. The root is
creeping, whitifh, a little woody. Stems ereCt, 2 feet high,
round, leafy, fcarcely branched. Leaves linear, or inclining to
lanceolate, entire, fpreading, very little glaucous, thickly fet
without any order. Spike terminal, ereCt, many-flowered.
BraCtese lanceolate. Calyx fmooth. Corolla large, bright-
yellow, ringent, clofed, with a downy orange-coloured mouth.
Spur awl-fhaped, pointed, 5 times as long as the calyx.