320 
Villous Mertensia. Pl. 4 to 1 foot. 
12 M. riLósa ; stems erect, more or less rough from strigze, 
Jike the upper surfaces of the leaves, but the under surfaces?of 
the leaves, and margins, and bases of the stems are beset with 
longer, softer, strigose pili; radical leaves on long petioles, sub- 
cordate-ovate, acute, membranous: cauline leaves sessile, nar- 
rower; racemes cymose, panicled, terminal, twin. 2%. H. 
Native of America, in Eschscholz Bay, beyond Beering's 
Straits. Stems simple or branched, many from the same root. 
Radical leaves 34 inches long, and 2 broad. Pedicels drooping. 
Calycine segments narrow-lanceolate, acuminated. Corolla 1 to 
1 inch long, pale blue, glabrous outside, but pilose inside ; 
tube slender; limb campanulate; throat furnished with minute, 
arched, glandular, fleshy processes. Nuts granular, wrinkled. 
Small fleshy processes of the throat have been observed in this, 
M. denticulàta, M. marítima, and M. Dahürica. 
Pilose Mertensia. Pl. 13 to 2 feet. 
13 M. ranvirLóRA ; plant quite glabrous, glaucous; stems 
procumbent, much branched; leaves oval-spatulate, abruptly 
acuminated, fleshy; peduncles lateral, 1l-flowered ; corolla 
hardly twice as long as the calyx. 3M. H. Native of New 
England and Canada, on the sea shore. Pulmonaria parviflora, 
Michx. fl. amer. bor. 1. p. 133. Pursh, fl. 1. p. 131. Pulmo- 
nària marítima of all American authors. Flowers small, blue. 
Small-flowered Mertensia. Fl. July. Clt. 1827. Pl. pro- 
cumbent. 
14 M. maritima (Link. handb. erk. der. gew. 1. p. 58.) 
plant glabrous, glaucous; stems procumbent, branched; leaves 
ovate, bluntish, fleshy; calyx glabrous. %. H. Native of the 
north of Europe, on the sea shore; as of Britain, Norway 
Iceland, Greenland, Lapland, &c. Pulmonaria maritima, Lin. 
spec. 195. Willd. spec. 1. p. 770. Smith, engl. bot. 368. Curt. 
fl. lond. fasc. 6. t. 18. Oed. fl. dan. t. 25. Light. fl. scot. 134. 
t. 7. Wahl. fl. lapp. p. 57.— Dill. hort. elth. 75. t. 65. f. 75.— 
Mor. hist. 3. sect. 11. t. 28. f. 12.—Plukn. phyt. t. 172. f. 3. 
—Pet. brit. t. 29. f. 2. Root fusiform, woody, with capillary 
fibres. Leaves ovate or oblong, acutish ; upper ones half stem- 
clasping. Flowers erect, disposed in terminal, corymbose ra- 
cemes. Calycine segments oval, acutish. Corolla blue, twice 
or thrice as long as the calyx; limb subcampanulate. This 
plant is a great ornament to the sandy sea coasts in Scotland 
and the north of England. The plant is by some called the 
Oyster plant, from the similarity of its taste to that of oysters. 
‘Sea Mertensia. Fl. July. Britain. Pl. procumbent. 
Cult. All the species of Merténsia are elegant, hardy border 
plants, much admired by gardeners for their brilliant blue 
flowers, which are of a reddish hue before expansion. The 
first twelve species do best in a peat border, but they will also 
grow in common garden soil ; these are best fitted for the front 
of flower borders. The last two species, being natives of the 
sea coast, require, when cultivated, to be grown in pots, ina 
mixture of sand and peat, or sand altogether, and placed among 
other alpine plants; but to keep them in vigour, even in this 
situation, they require to be refreshed occasionally with salted 
water. 
XIV. CERINTHE (from knpoc, keros, wax; and a»8oc, 
anthos, a flower ; bees are supposed to obtain wax largely from 
this flower.) Tourn. inst. t. 50. Lin. gen. no. 189. Schreb. 
gen. no. 246. Juss. gen. p. 130. ed Usteri. p. 145. Lam. ill. 
no. 262. t. 93. Gaertn. fruct. 1. no. 413. t. 67. f. 1. Schkuhr, 
handb. t. 30. Lehm. asper. p. 386. 
Lin. syst.  Pentándria, Monogynia. Calyx of 5 unequal 
sepals. Corolla tubular, with a naked throat. Anthers hastate, 
spirally twisted at the base of the lobes, where they are connected. 
Nuts 2, 2-celled, imperforated at the base, fixed to the bottom 
BORAGINEJE. XIII. Merrensta. 
XIV. CERINTHE. 
of the calyx.— Glabrous glaucous plants, with terminal, leafy 
racemes of tubularly campanulate, drooping, variegated flowers. 
§ 1. Corolla 5-toothed : teeth reflexed, or spreading. 
1 C. ma‘sor (Lin. spec. 195.) stem branched ; leaves cordate- 
ovate, denticulately ciliated ; corollas ventricose at top, 5-tooth- 
ed: teeth very short, acuminated, reflexed. (2. H. Native of 
the south of Europe, Barbary, and Siberia. Scop. fl. carn. ed. 
2d. 1. p. 128. All. ped. 1. no. 176. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 160. 
Suter, fl. helv. 1. p.106. Horn. hafn. 1. p. 180. Curt. bot. 
mag. t. 333. Sturm, fl. germ. 1. fasc. 12. icon. C. glabra, 
Mill. fig. t. 91. D. C. syn. fl. fr. no. 2702. C. glaüca, 
Meench. meth. p. 520.— Hall. helv. no. 602.—Lob. icon 397. 
f. 2.—Mor. hist. 3. sect. 11. t. 29. f. 1.—Ger. emac. 538. f. 
1—2.—Park. par. 521. f. 1. Stem glabrous. Lower leaves 
tongue-shaped, emarginate, attenuated at the base; superior 
ones blunt; the floral ones sometimes purplish-green, all fleshy, 
glaucous, and stem-clasping, glabrous above, densely beset with 
white dots, rough beneath. Pedicels shorter than the floral 
leaves. Corolla yellow at bottom and purple at top. This is 
one of the most common herbs all over Italy: hence Virgil’s 
expression of “ Cerinthe ignobile gramen." There is abundance 
of honey juice in the tube of the corolla, for which reason it is 
much resorted to by bees; the plant is therefore peculiarly 
proper to be planted near Apiaries. 
Greater Honeywort, Fl. July, Aug. 
foot. 
2 C. a’spera (Roth. catal. 1. p. 33.) stem branched ; leaves 
Cit. 1596. Pl. 1 
oblong, denticulately ciliated, rough beneath ; corolla cylin-: 
drical, 5-toothed : teeth short, acuminated, reflexed. ©. 
H. Native of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Transylvania, 
and the Islands of the Archipelago. Smith, fl. gree. t. 170. 
Lapey. abr. p. 88. Baumg. fl. trans. 1. p. 127. St. Hil. pl. 
fr. 3. t. 285. Hoffm. et Link. fl. port. 1. p. 196. D. C. syn. 
fl. fr. no. 2701. Lehm. asper. p. 388. C. major, £, Lin. spec. 
p.196. Tratt. arch. p. 85. t. 63. C. major, Mill. dict. no. 1. 
—Mor. hist. 3. sect. 11. t. 29. f. 2,— Bauh. hist. 8. p. 602. 
icone. C. major, var. a, Lam. dict. no. 1. Stem glabrous, 
sometimes spotted. Lower leaves tongue-shaped, all obtuse 
and glaucous beneatb, and stem-clasping and rough from white 
warts above ;:floral ones cordate-ovate. Pedicels much shorter 
than the bracteas, which are sometimes coloured beneath. Co- 
rolla twice as long as the calyx, yellow, with a brownish purple 
tube. 
Rough Honeywort. 
feet. 
3 C. RETÓRTA (Smith, prod. fl. greec..1. p. 121. fl. græc. t. 
171.) stem erect, branched at top; corollas retorted, clavately 
cylindrical, with a constrieted 5-toothed mouth : teeth spread- 
ing, acute. ©. H. Native of the Peloponnesus ; and of Caria, 
in cultivated parts of mountains. Leaves stem-clasping, somewhat 
spatulate, emarginate at top, with a short mucrone, beset with 
Fl. July Aug. Clt. 1633. Pl.1to 2 
"white warts on both surfaces, all quite entire and glaucous ; floral 
ones more oblong, purple beneath while young. Margins of the 
sepals denticulately ciliated, as in the two preceding. Corolla . 
not above half the size of those of the preceding, with a yellow 
tube and a violaceous limb. 
Retorted-flowered Honeywort. 
Pl. 14 foot. 
4 C. runrU'REA (Vis. in bot. zeit. 1829. p. 8.) stem erect, 
branched at top; leaves stem-clasping, obtuse, glaucous, thick- 
ish, smooth, entire, spotted with white: lower leaves spatulate, 
attenuated at the base: superior ones cordate; corollas coni- 
cally clavate, ventricose under the throat; limb constricted: 
teeth bluntly triangular, reflexed, very short. (2. H. Native 
of Dalmatia, in the woods of Boraca. Nearly allied to C re- 
Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1825. 
