Botanists and Gardeners have given to this species of Rubus the name of _flowering_, not because it is the only one which produces flowers, but from its being regarded for its flowers merely; they indeed are so shewy, and so plentifully produced, that the plant has long been thought to merit a place in most shrubberies; to the various inhabitants of which, both in the largeness and elegant form of its leaves, and the colour of its blossoms, it forms a pleasing contrast. It is extremely hardy, and easily propagated by suckers; the only care which it requires, is to keep it within proper bounds: young plants of it produce the largest and finest flowers. It blossoms from June to September, is a native of different and distant parts of North-America, and was cultivated here by Mr. Miller, in 1739. Cornutus, who first figured and described this plant, gave it the name of _odoratus_, on account of the fragrance of its foliage; his words are "elegantissimi hujus folia fragrantissima sunt, paremque agrimonio odorato spirant odorem;" the fruit, rarely produced with us, he observes, is like the common Raspberry, but not so pleasant. [324] Antirrhinum Triphyllum. Three-Leaved Toad-Flax. _Class and Order._ Didynamia Angiospermia. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Cor._ basis deorsum prominens nectarifera. _Caps._ 2-locularis. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ ANTIRRHINUM _triphyllum_ foliis ternis ovatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 555._ _Ait. Kew._ LINARIA triphylla minor lutea. _Bauh. Pin. 212._ LINARIA triphylla coerulea. _Bauh. Pin. 212._ LINARIA hispanica. _Clus. Hist. 1. p. 320._ LINARIA valentina. Tode Flaxe of Valentia. _Park. Par. p. 268._ [Illustration: N^o. 324] The _Antirrhinum triphyllum_, so called from the leaves growing by threes on the stalk (a character, by the bye, not very constant) was cultivated by Parkinson, and described by him in his _Parad. terr._ He appears to have been a stranger to the particoloured variety now so generally cultivated as an ornamental annual in our gardens; in its wild state the flowers of this _Antirrhinum_ are of a yellow hue, with little or no purple in them, such indeed are frequently produced from seeds sown in our gardens. It is a hardy annual, a native of Spain and Sicily, a plant of ready growth, requiring the common treatment of annuals sown in the Spring, and much disposed indeed to come up spontaneously where it has once grown; in sowing its seeds, care should be taken to preserve the produce of such flowers as have the most purple in them. INDEX. In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the _Ninth Volume_ are alphabetically arranged.