Fm 
BORAGINEÆ. XV. LITHOSPERMUM. 
the calyx. 2%. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Willd. 
spec. l. p. 753. Lehm. asper. p. 309. Stem and branches 
hairy. Leaves sessile, bluntish, 14 to 2 inches long. Racemes 
usually bifid, terminating the stem and branches ; bracteas lan- 
ceolate. Corolla salver-shaped, white ; throat marked by 5 ob- 
tuse gibbosities. Stigma obtuse. Nuts half ovate, acuminated, 
shining, white. Habit of L. officinàlis. 
Scabrous Gromwell. Pl. 1 to 14 foot. 
13 L. ANGusTIFOLIUM (Michx. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 130.) 
Pursh, fl. amer. sept. 1. p. 137.) stems herbaceous, procum- 
bent ; leaves linear, clothed with adpressed pubescence; flowers 
as If they were lateral; nuts beset with impressed dots. ©. H. 
Native of shady woods, on the banks of the river Ohio. Lehm. 
asper. p. 209. Flowers white. Nuts turgidly ovate, shining. 
Narrow-leaved Gromwell. Fl. July, Aug. Pl. 1 foot. 
14 L. srnícruw (Lehm. asper. p. 303.) stem herbaceous, 
very simple, thick ; leaves linear, acute, adpressed to the stem, 
strigose above, and almost glabrous beneath; spikes terminal, 
solitary ; tube of corolla twice as long as the calyx. ©. H. 
Native of tropical America. Stem terete, canescent at top. 
Lower leaves 4 inch long, very blunt: upper ones 14 inch long. 
Flowers on short pedicels from the axils of linear bracteas. 
Calyx pilose, with linear-lanceolate segments. Corolla villous 
outside, pale yellow. Anthers sagittate. Nuts ovate, turgid. 
Straight Gromwell. Pl. 1 to 14 foot. 
15 L. cuwErróLiUM (Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 5. no. 4.) 
stems herbaceous, prostrate, hoary ; leaves cuneiform, hoary ; 
flowers sessile, axillary, solitary. ©.H. Native of Peru, on 
arid hills. Pers. ench. 1. p. 158. Lehm. asper. p. 307. Root 
fusiform, fibry. Stems numerous. Leaves sessile. Corolla 
white. Nuts ovate, acuminated, shining. 
Wedge-leaved Gromwell. Pl. prostrate. 
16 L. micra’ntuum (Viv. fl. libyc. p. 10. t. 1. f. 4.) hispid 
from strigee ; leaves linear-lanceolate ; flowers disposed in short, 
terminal, secund spikes, the whole forming a kind of cyme; 
bairs on the calyx spinescent when bearing the fruit; tube of 
corolla filiform. ©. H. Native of Libya, in the great Syrtus. 
Root simple. Stem a finger in height. Calycine segments 
linear, acute. Corolla yellowish green, longer than the calyx, 
with a naked throat. Nuts ovate, acute, convex on the 
back. 
Small-flowered Gromwell. Pl. $ foot. 
Secr. I]. Dernospz’rmum (from voc, deinos, rough; and 
oreppa, sperma, a seed; the nuts are rough.) Nuts very hard, 
wrinkled, callosely dotted, rough, or muricated. 
§ 1. Flowers white or yellow. 
17 L. A’putum (Vahl. symb. 2. p. 33.) stems herbaceous ; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, pilose ; spikes terminal, secund ; 
bracteas lanceolate; nuts muricated. ©. H. Native of Por- 
tugal, south of France, Italy, Samos, and other islands of the 
Archipelago; in the kingdom of Tunis, near Caffan ; as well 
as of North America, in Virginia, Ohio, and Mississippi, in 
dry woods. Willd. spec. 1. p. 752. Sibth. et Smith, fl. 
gree. t. 158. Hoffm. et Link. fl. port. 1. p. 169. , Pursh, fl. 
amer. sept. 1. p. 151. Lehm. asper. p. 317. Myosótis A'pula, 
Lin. spec. 189. All. pedem. no. 192. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 158. 
Lapeyr. abr. p. 83. Myosótis lütea, Lam. fl. gal. 2. p. 282.— 
Mor. hist. 3. sect. 11. t. 28. f. 8.— Column. ecpb. 1. p. 185. f. 
1.—Plukn. phyt. t. 16. f. 5.— Lob. icon. t. 587. f. 1.—Buglós- 
sum lüteum ánnuum mínimum, Tourn. inst. p. 134. Root 
branched. Stems rarely more than one from the same root, 
pilose. Leaves sessile, deep green, an inch long. Spikes 3-5 
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323 
together, terminal, many-flowered. Calyx very hairy. Corolla 
yellow, longer than the calyx. Nuts gibbous on both sides, 
beaked, marked with 4 elevated submuricated lines. 
Apulian Gromwell. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1768. 
foot. 
18 L. pu'mitum (Lehm. asper. p. 319.) stems herbaceous, 
ascending, branched ; leaves imbricate, linear, obtuse, strigosely 
pilose ; flowers solitary, sessile, interfoliaceous; segments of the 
limb of corolla acute; nuts rugose. /. H. Native of North 
America. Habit of Anchisa ccspitósa, but smaller. Root 
thick, with filiform fibres. Stems many, 2-3 inches long. 
Leaves crowded, an inch long, and more. Calyx pilose, with 
ciliated segments. Corolla yellow ?; tube a little longer than 
the calyx. 
Dwarf Gromwell. Pl. 1 foot. 
19 L. myosotoipes (Lehm. asper. p. 319.) stems herbaceous, 
procumbent, filiform; leaves linear-lanceolate, pilose; flowers 
solitary, lateral; tube of corolla longer than the calyx ; limb 
obtuse; nuts rugose. ©.H. Native of Chili, in sandy places 
about Conception; and at Santiago. L. tinctdrium, Ruiz. et 
Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 4. t. 114. L. tíngens, Roem. et Schultes, 
syst. 4. p. 44. Plant pilose. Root slender, fusiform. Stems 
numerous; middle ones erect. Flowers on short pedicels. 
Calyx closed in the fructiferous state. Corolla white, exceeding 
the calyx.—This plant tinges paper in which it has been pressed 
of a violet colour. 
Mouse-ear-like Gromwell. Pl. procumbent. 
20 L. AnvE'NsE (Lin. spec. 190. fl. suec. no. 160. ed. 2d.) 
stems herbaceous, erect, branched ; leaves lanceolate, narrowed 
at the base, acutish, hairy, subciliated ; calyxes a little shorter 
than the corolla, spreading in the fructiferous state; nuts wrin- 
kled, scabrous. ©. H. Native of Europe, Asia, Africa, and 
North America, in cultivated fields, and sterile or waste places ; 
plentiful in some parts of Britain. Oed. fl. dan. t. 456. Smith, 
engl. bot. t. 123. Bieb. fl. cauc. 1. p. 121.— Hall. helv. no. 
594. — Mor. hist. 3. sect. 11. t. 31. f. 7.—Riv. mon. tab. 9. f. 
l. Root perpendicular, branched, red outside. Stem scabrous 
from adpressed hairs. Leaves sessile, scabrous, 13 inch long. 
Flowers nearly sessile, solitary, disposed in leaty racemose 
spikes. Calyx hispid or pilose. Corolla white, pilose outside, 
with a violaceous ring inside. Nuts scabrous, black. 
Var. B; flowers blue. ©. H. Native of Iberia. 
cauc. 1. p. 121. 
Var. y ; flowers purplish. ©. H. 
arvénse, p, D. C. fl. fr. no. 2713. 
Corn-field Gromwell, or Bastard Alkanet. 
Britain. Pl. 3 to 1} foot. 
21 L. rtEBE' TUM (Cham. in Linnea, 4. p. 446.) stem erect 
or prostrate, trichotomous at the nodi, clothed with spreading 
pili; leaves opposite; spikes elongated, leafy ; leaves linear, or 
linear-lanceolate, obtuse, nearly naked above and strigose be-. 
neath, irregularly ciliated with twin pili; calyx densely pilose ; 
nuts rugose, glabrous. ©.H. Native of Unalaschka and the 
Aleutian Islands, on the sea shore. Stems rarely solitary and 
erect; but generally many from the same root, and trailing. 
Flowers nearly sessile. The largest leaves are 3 inches long 
and 4 lines broad. Calyx 5-cleft or 5-parted, with lanceolate 
acutish segments. Corolla salver-shaped, hardly exceeding the 
calyx, glabrous, white or pale yellow. 
Plebeian Gromwell. Pl. 3 to $ foot. 
22 L. nupERA'LE (Dougl. mss. ex Lehm. pug. 2. p. 28.) 
stem herbaceous, erect, hairy ; leaves linear, acuminated, stri- 
gose ; spikes leafy ; corolla villous : tube length of calyx. ©. 
H. Native of North-west America. Stem angular, furrowed, 
branched at top. Leaves scattered, crowded, sessile. Calyx 
7T t4 
Pl. 4 
Bieb. fl. 
Native of France. L. 
Fl. May, June. 
