I/O [ 2014 ]
A N T I R R H I N U M minus.
Least Snapdragon,
DID YNAMIA Angiospermia,
Gen. Char. Cal. in 5 segments. Cor. with a pro.
minence at its base, pointing downwards and bearing
honey. Caps. 2-celled.
Spec. Char. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse, downy, mostly
alternate. Stem much branched, spreading. Calyx
longer than the spur.
Syn. Antirrhinum minus. Linn. Sp. PI. 852. Sm.
FI. Brit. 660. Huds. 272. With. 551. Hull.
139. ed. 2 . 182. Relh. 245. Sibth. 195. Abbot.
137. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 41. Dicks. LI. Sicc.
fasc. 6. 17.
Linaria Antirrhinum dicta. Rail Syn. *283.
T h i s , the only known British Antirrhinum which we have
not yet presented to our readers, is an annual native of sandy
cultivated fields, flowering from June to September. The
Rev. Mr. Leathes has sent it from Bury, Mr. Wigg from
Yarmouth, and we have gathered it about Battersea, where
Mr. Curtis likewise observed it to grow,
if Root small, zigzag. Stem upright, more or less branched,
various in height and luxuriance, round, downy, leafy. Leaves
linear-lanceolate, entire, obtuse, downy and clammy; the
lowermost often opposite, and broadest, Flowerstalks numerous,
axillary, solitary, simple, about the length of the leaves.
Flowers small and inconspicuous, though of no inelegant
appearance when magnified, being purplish, with a white
three-cleft under lip, and yellow palate. The spur is much
shorter than the other part of the corolla. Segments of the
calyx unequal, spatulate, covered, like the stalks and leaves,
with prominent viscid hairs. "Capsule ovate, obtuse, compressed,
2-lobed, opening at length by a jagged orifice as in
others of this genus. Seed curiously furrowed, that part
affording exquisite specific characters, if wanted, among the
annual kinds of Antirrhinum,