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Show BRIETIS HH’ DIVISION I. FOREIGN Yellow, trifoliate Toadflax. Linaria trifoliata flava. Al: én & The root is long, flender, whitifa, and futniffSed with numerous fibres. The ftalks are lender, upright,’ numerous, and a foot and half high: they are of a pale yellowifh green, andufually run up fingle, without anydivifions into branches. The leaves are numerous, broad, fhort, of a dufky green, and they have no footftalks. They grow irregularly, but moft frequently three from one place: ftom this it obtained the name of ¢rifoliate toadflax ; but tho’ moft of the leaves grow in this manner: there are frequently fome that ftand in pairs, and commonly a good tumber that grow fingly toward the top of the ftall The flowers are large and beautiful: they are of a mixt yellow, and have long, fharpfpurs. The feed-veffel is round, and the feed is blackith. It is a native of Sp BE-R‘B AL: SPECIE they lie fpread upon the ground about a third part oftheir length, andrife irregularly up the reft, The leaves:are very fmall, and very numérous: they ftand thick, andperfectly irregularly ujpon the ftalks, and are of a bluith green : they have no foorftallss; .and «they are undivided edges, narrow, aud pointed at the ends, The flowers ftand ‘in Jong and thick fp the tops ofthe ftalis and branches, andare of a deep purple: they are\ {mall but verypretty ; fometimes they are paler and reder, fometimes perfectly blue; but their mot conftant and natural colour is purple. The feed-vefiels are fmall, and the eeas are very fmall and black. It isa native of Spain and of fome parts of Germany; and flowers in Auguft. It is moftly found onhills near fprin , C. Bauhine calls it Linaria ce lea repens. Others,’ Linaria purpurea, and Ofpris purpuro ca- rulea repens. tripbyll inor luni 2. Four-leaved Toadflax. Stellated Toad Stellatisfoliis J The root is very fl Linaria qu & Theroot is fmall, long, whitifh, and divided : it has many fibres, and partly by them, partly by its own divifions, fpreads a great way under the furface. The ftalks are numerous, flender, weak, and a on long1B. They licin partuponthe ground, andinpart themfelyes, but feebly andin anirregular manner. The leaves are numerous, and ced with great regularity: four rife from the fame fpot al] the way up the ftalk, and thefe feveral fours are pretty Iz diftances. leaves arepore longifh, narrow, undivid > tharp at the points, without footftalks, and of a pale green. vers are large and of a pale yellow, fiand in clufters at the tops of the ed-veffel is large and roundeed; andthe feedsare {mall andbla 2 It is a native of Spain, Italy, and Gsermany, and fpreads at randomover a great d eal of heir dry, barren grounds. Fr flov C. Bauhine calls it Lina Columna, Linaria tetraphylla Four-leaved toadflax. nifhed with fmall The ftalks are fencer: weak, and of a pale green, folate redifh : theyftand but we kly upright, andfeldom areftrait; and there generally lie feveral others about the root, which fp on the ground, and arefuller of leaves, thousgh they bear no flowers. The leaves are longith, narrow, undivided the edges, pointed at the ends, and of a pale« coloured greer they grow round the ftaalks, the manner ofthofe of the fte llate plants, lik the rowels of a fpur, or the rays of a ftar, they are commonly reprefented, i There are ufually five principal leave oe: andoften fome finall Ones from th boms, Towardthe tops ofthe principalft alks which bear the flowers the y ¢ ow with lefs regul arity, often fingly, and fometimes they are in this parc irregularly divided. The flowers ftand at the tops o f the ftalks in that of the common toadfl but fharper at the point, and longer in proportion to their breadth: their colour is a frefh green, and they have no footftalks. The flowers ftand in {pikes at the tops of the ftalks, and they are large and beautiful: they are whitifh, een. the opening, whichis of a beautiful purple. It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. C, Bauhine calls it Lin lid reo. Dillenius, andothers, tante. Indented-leaved Toadflax. Linaria foliis dentatis. JV0 Pv ff is long, and furnifhed with many theyrife in a thick the ftalk is ‘rifen, H ERB AE: procumbens. LYpo, ¢9 ompofed of a multitude of thick k, and woody fibres : they rife ad, and fpread themfelves far unare very numerous, twenty or more fame head of the root : they are flender, weak, and of a pale colour: ftalk rifes in the centre oN and round, firm, upright, anc a foo and half high: it is of a pale green, and 1 fcfometimes branched. The leaves ftand itrewel eeonit, and are not fo numerous as on moft of the others: they are long and narrow, and they have no footftalks; thote toward the bottomofthe ftalk are like the radical leaves, but narrower and more deeply dented; thofe higher up are much deeperdivided, and towardthe top of the ftalk y confift on ly of two fide-divifions and along | oint. The flowers ftand inflender ts kes at the tops - the branches: they arefall, and of a deeper I naler blue, and often white ed-veflels are lar Th ftalks, and are large andblue. Thefeed-veflel is {mall and round; and the feeds are large and blackith. It is a native of the fouth of France, and flowers in May. Lobel calls it Linaria annua purpuro cerulea Others, Linaria m: be 8. Bluetrifoliate Toadflax Linaria trifolia ce a flore abefcente riftu purpuy The root is long, flender, white, hard, and with humerous fibres, I , 5 XS are round, |ioe firm, upright, le branched, .and tw feet high. T heile aves are cs cs andftandirregularly onthe ftalk: theyare lone ar harrow, refembling de oS that This is a very elegant = plant, and diffe ent from the larger trifoliace kind, not only i the colour of the flow but in the wholeface and afpect. The root is long, flender, crooked, hard, hung with a fewfibres. The ftalks are numerous, weak, and about eight or ten inches high. The leaves are broad and fhort on the lower part of the ftalk, and fomewhat longer and narrower upwards: they ftand by threes, and have no footftalks: their colour isa pale green, and they are not at all indented at the edges, The flowers ftand in thick, fhort {pikes at the tops ofthe ftalks, and’ are fmall, and of a beauiful blue. The feed-veflels are large and roundith. The feeds are fmall and black. It is a native ofItaly, and flowers early in {pring. C. Bauhine calls it Linaria tryphylla cerulea Columna, Linaria cerulea apula. We, Blue triz andhas but few S thofe of the common toadf only fimaller, The feed-vefiel is large and round, the fe are {mall and brown. It is a native of Sicily, and flowers ii n July. Boccone calls it Li Se ula mutica i Parple-mouthed Toadflax. itt The firft leaves are pinnated, fmall, and beautiful: they are not very numerous: theyftand on Jong footftalks, and each confifts of about three pairs of pinne, which are fmall, oval, and not at all indented. The ftalks are flender, erect, and fix or eight inches high: they are not at all branched, andare of a pale yellowifh green. The leaves on themare few, and ftandalternately: they are long, narrow, fharp-pointed, hot at iit indented at the edges, and of apale green: they have no footftalks, and they grow more iene upwards than thofe of the generality of the other fpecies. Theflowersftand in fpikes at the tops of the long, broad, of a beautiful green, andhaveno footftalks: they are narroweft at the fe, broadeft toward the end, and indented at long, thick fpikes: they are y ellow, and like 3. Low, purple Toadf ‘ round, Rolfe ES lowers in July. C. Bauhine calls ic LZ ia tea. Others, from Clufius, ia pur The SNAPDRAGON ANTIRRATNU (7 FSHE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and has the labiated fhape : is formed into a tube, two i lips The upper lip is vided into two parts, and turned back ps and and a palate, and it a no ipur. E 1 at the edges: the lower lip is dividedinto three parts; andthe palate is large, and Its up the {pace between the two lips. The cup is formed of afingle leaf, divic diinto five parts, and remains when 2, of an irregular form, refembling in fome degree the floweris fallen: the feed veffel is a fi Slcicse whence the plant has an Englifh name, calfs fnout; and it opens obliquely when the head of acalf 2 the feeds are ripe. 1g two longer and twofhorter Linnzus places this among his ¢ threads in the H of the 1; but the diftinétion, in the want is evident. ee See ne Th |