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ECHIUM candicans. 

 Hoary Tree-Viper s Bag loss 



PENTANDRIA MOXOGYXIA. 



ECHIUM. Supra fol. 36. 





E. candicans, caule fruticoso, foliis lanceolatis ijervosis ramisquc hirsutis, 

 foliolis calycinis oblongis lanceolatisque acutis, stylis hirtl*. llort. Kezc. 

 1. 186. 



Ecliium candicans. Lin. suppl. 131. Si/st. veg. cd. 14. 189. JdCf* 

 coll. I. 44. ic. rar. 1. 30. IVilld. sp. pi. 1. 782. Jlort. Kezc. ed. 2. 



1.299. 



Planta arborescent, erecta, ramosa, modb orgyalis, corlice cinereo, ri- 

 moso ; rami supra transvershn cicatrizati, novelli crassi, succulenti, stricti, 

 hirsutius villosi, approximate nee verb confertim Joliosu Folia numerosa, 

 spithameca, sparsa, patentissima, modb passim subverticillata v. rariiis passim 

 per paria opposite, villoso-canescentia, in nervis prcecipuis scabrida, august ius 

 lanceolata^ in acumine longinque atlenuata, supra immerse nervosa nervis 

 I ascendent er prolongatis, subtus varicosis ; in petiolum semiteretem basi dila- 



\ tatum attenuata. Panicula cylindrica spicata rami terminatrix ; spicule 



multce, modb rarce 8$ remotiores, modb in cylindrum pyramidatum imbricato- 

 congestce, pedunculate?, sparsee, axillares in folds supernis diminutis, ex 

 partim retro/lexis sensbn arrigendce, biseriato-secundce, bracteis parvis Jb- 

 liaceis persistentibus lanceolatis singularibns externe ad utrumque latus stipatee. 

 Cal. herbaceus, hirsutus, eequalis, segmentis lineari-lanceolatis y obtusulis m 

 Cor. e minoribus generis, dilute roseo-ceerulescens, cequalis, subbilabiata, ob~ 

 v* tusa, extiis pubescens. Stamina longe exserta, assurgentia, seepius rubentia. 



The white hue so conspicuous in this plant, and which 

 has suggested the specific name, is communicated by a 



hort thick villous pubescence that covers nearly every 

 part of it. The stem is of a close-grained hard wood, and 

 sometimes nearly two inches in diameter near the base. 

 The bloom is produced in April and May, and continues 

 long in beauty, the |flowers expanding themselves in suc- 

 cession as the numerous spikelets, which are rolled inwards 

 and point towards the axis of the common panicle, proceed 



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themselves to comple 



Monsieur Ventenat has expressed a doubt whether the 

 figure we have quoted from Jacquin's works, really belongs 

 to this species; but seems to have overlooked the reasons 

 assigned in the " Icones rariores" for the peculiar appear- 

 ance of the specimen from which that figure was taken, 



the stock of which is said to have assumed the one more 



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