ANTIRRHINE

Æ (Lat.), n. f. pl. A?n(aSn)-ti?r-ri?n’e?-e(a3-e?), Fr., antirrhinées. 1. An order of plants made by Per so on, comprising more than thirty genera, including Antirrhinum, Orontivm, rrophularia, Digitalis, etc. De Candolle and Koch included under it Gratiola, Digitalis, Antirrhinum, Linaria, Veronica, ete. By Reichenbach and ling it was regarded as a subdivision of the Scrophularineæ, including the same and related genera. In 1841 it was divided by Reichenbach into the sections Veroniceæ, Linarieæ, and Digitaleæ. Cf. ANTIRRHINARI&. 2. In a more restricted sense, a subdivision of scrophularineous plants, or a section or tribe of the Antirrhinarie or An tirr hi nideæ, recognized by Bentham, G. Don, Endlicher, and Reichenbach, comprising Antirrhinum, Linaria, and three or four other genera. The plants of this section are dis- Gara by the following characters: The inflorescence is simple and racemose, or the flowers are solitary and Beata the corolla. is bilabiate and almost tubular, the hase of the tube being gibbous, spurred, or saccate, and the lower lip being provided with a palate; t hs eee dehisces by irregular openings or by chinks. [B, 121, 170, 215.