Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

%2^' DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA
If this effed really follows, it is more probably ow-
ing to the poverty of the foil where the plants
grow, than to any particular quality in the plants
themfclves.
ANTIRRHINUM. Gen. pi. 750.
Col. 5-phyllus, Corolla bafis deorfum prominens,
nedarifera. Caps. 2-locularis.
* Foliis aliernis floribus calcaratis.
"tnaria i. ANTIRRHINUM foliis lanceolato-linearibus con-
fertis, caule erefto, fpicis terminalibus fefTilibus,
floribus imbricatis. Sp. pi. 858. Ger. em. S^^- f-
I. Rivin. t. 83. Blackivell t. 115 J
Common yellow Toad-flax Anglis.
On the borders of corn-fields in many places, as in
Strath-Tay^ and between Dunketd and Blair., &c.
n. VIII.
The fl:alk is 3 or 4 feet high, and often branch'd.
The leaves fmooth and glaucous : the flowers
are yellow, and grow in fpikes, at the tops of
the fl:alk and branches. The palate of the Corolla
is hairy and qrange-color'd.
3 peloria. There is a variety of this plant Ibmetimes found,
the Corolla having from two to five fpurs, and the
limb aflTuming a regular pentapetalous appear-
ance J but this is only a monftrous luxuriance,
as is evident from both kinds being upon the
fame plant, (vid.fig. Am^n. acad. I. 282. /. 3.)
An ointment made of the leaves ftands recommend-
ed as a cure for the piles.
This is the only fpecies of Antirrhinwm that I ob-
ferv'd growing wild in Scotland. ^Q^Q-