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CYNOGLOSSUM elochidiatum. 
Burry Houndstongue. 
inatebenteenn. _ctieataeeee 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BoRAGINACE2. 
- CYNOGLOSSUM. Botanical Register, 1839. fol. 36. 
0: glochidiatum ; (Wall. cat. no. 922.) pilosum, divaricato-ramosum, foliis 
oblongis acuminatis basi angustatis sessilibus, racemis elongatis tenui- 
bus, floribus subsessilibus, nucibus parvis marginatis aculeis brevibus 
uniserialibus paucisque sparsis. Bentham in Royle’s Illustr. p- 306. 
Herba diennis, canescens, diffusa, ramis intertectis. Folia. superiora 
sessilia. Racemi aphylli. Flores parvi, let? coerulei. Glochides nucwm mar- 
ginales, 1-3 seriales. 
Among the many forms of vegetation which give the 
aspect of Europe to the mountains of India, are several species 
of Cynoglossum, which remind the traveller of the Forget- 
me-Not of his western home. Of these one of the prettiest 
when gathered is the species now figured, whose bright and 
joyous looking flowers are exceedingly gay; unfortunately 
however the plant itself is a straggling dull green entangled 
herb, so that it can only be grown in the borders of a shrub- 
bery, or in some situation where the herbage may not offend 
the eye. Like all its order, the flowers will continue to open 
for a long time in a glass of water. 
fig. 1. represents a nut with the barbed bristles, called by 
botanists glochides, whence the name of the species. 
It is a hardy biennial, growing about one and a half or 
two feet high in any good soil, and flowering from July until 
destroyed by the effects of winter. 
The seeds should be sown about the end of May or begin- 
ning of June, in the open border, where they may remain 
without protection, if in rather a dry situation ; they suffer 
more from wet than from cold. 
