Linaria pelisseriana, (L.) Miller

33. L. pelisseriana (L.) Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 11 (1768).

Glaucous, glabrous annual; stems 15-50 cm, erect, few, usually simple. Leaves 12—40 x c. 1m m, linear, more or less erect, alternate or the lowest verticillate. Racemes dense, up to 5 cm in fruit; pedicels 3-6-5 mm, about equalling bracts. Calyx 4-5 mm; lobes linear-lanceolate, subequal. Corolla 15-20 mm, purplish-violet with whitish palate; upper lip very long, with parallel lobes; throat more or less closed; spur 7-9 mm. Capsule 2-5-3 mm. Seeds 1-1-2 mm, suborbicular, flat; disc smooth, black; wing deeply fimbriate, pale. 2n = 24. Cultivated ground and waste places. Mediterranean region and W. Europe, northwards to the Channel Islands. Al BI Bu Co Cr Ga G r Hs It Ju Sa Si Tu.