Said by Mr. Pursh to grow in wet shady woods ìn 
Carolina. With us a tolerably hardy perennial plant, of 
easy culture, and long known iu our gardens. 
The stem dies down annually; this is round, upright, 
branching, smooth, aud of a livid or bluish green above. 
Leaves scattered, distant, upright-patent, lanceolate, shortly 
petioled, two or three inches long, somewhat downy beneath 
(villous in spontaneous specimens), shortly ciliate. Flowers 
blue, terminal, loosely panicled, tending towards a cyme, 
having a fragrance resembling that of the Violet: pedicles 
with a small scalelike bracte. Calyx small, livid, lobules 
acute. Corolla upright, rather longer than the half of an 
inch, tubular, narrow, slightly enlarged towards the faux, 
limb 5-parted, nearly a third shorter than the tube, stellate, 
segments linear-oblong, concave, obtuse: fauv closed by a 
white pubescence. Stamens inserted at the orifice of the 
faux, and buried in the pubescence, connivent: anthers 
Jonger than the short filaments, subdidymous, tapering up- 
wards, spotted at the back. Germen conic, as if of two 
parts, short, smooth: styles two grown together, seldom 
separated: stigma green, thick, depressedly capitate, tra- 
versed above through the centre by a straight suture, sur- 
rounded underneath by a white annular deflectent- ledge. 
Although so long known in Europe, we can find no figure 
of it, except the diminished engraving, from a dried 
specimen in Pluknett's work. The present drawing was 
made at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and 
Milne, King's Road, Fulham. 
We have omitted the synonym of Miller's Dictionary, 
as a white flower without scent, is there spoken of. 
a The calyx. 5 A corolla dissected vertically. c Pistil. 
