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Racemes simple, hairy. Calycine segments oblong, obtuse. 
Tube of corolla length of calyx. Carpels covered with glochi- 
date bristles. 
Lanceolate-leaved Hound's-tongue. Pl. 1 to 13 foot. 
14 C. vesicuLésum (Wall. cat. no. 920.) hispid from strigze ; 
stem much branched; leaves oval, attenuated at both ends; 
racemes terminal, solitary or twin, slender ; calycine segments 
ovate, acute; carpels beset with glochidate prickles on the mar- 
gins, and smooth in the centre. 4. H. Native of Nipaul. 
Corollas rather small, white. Racemes bractless. 
Bladdery Hound’s-tongue. PI. 2 to 3 feet. 
15 C. He'yner; plant hispid from strigee; leaves ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acuminated ; racemes slender, terminal twin, or axil- 
lary solitary ; carpels beset with glochidate prickles along the 
margins, and tubercled in the centre, shorter than the calycine 
segments, which are bluntish. ¢.H. Native of the East In- 
dies, at Dindigul. C. lanceolatum, Heyne, herb. ex Wall. cat. 
no. 921. but not of Forsk. Racemes bractless. 
Heyne’s Hound's-tongue. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 
16 C. Warrrcunu; stem erect, angular, rather strigose ; 
leaves oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved ; racemes twin or solitary, 
elongated, terminal, or from the axils of the upper leaves; 
flowers distant; calyx spreading, longer than the carpels, with 
ovate, mucronate segments; carpels beset with glochidate pric- 
kles along the margins, and tubercles in the centre. 4. F. 
Native of Nipaul, in Gosainsthan. C. calycinum, Wall. cat. 
no. 923. but not of Meyer. Leaves 3-5-nerved. Racemes 
bractless. 
Wallich’s Hound’s-tongue. PI. 2 to 3 feet. 
17 C. cane’scens (Horn. hort. hafn. 1. p. 177. Willd. enum. 
l. p. 180.) stem erect, branched at top ; cauline leaves lanceo- 
late, acute, petiolate, erosely denticulated, hairy, clothed with 
soft hairs beneath, somewhat 3-nerved ; racemes conjugate, di- 
varicate, bractless. (2. H. Native of the East Indies. Lehm. 
asper. p. 144. C. micránthum, Desf. pl. hort. par. 1804. p. 
220. C. hirsutum, Jacq. hort. schoenbr. 4. t. 489. exclusive of 
the synonymes. C. racemósum, Roxb. fl. ind. ed. Wall. 2. p. 
6. ex Lehm. Plant hispid. Flowers secund. Calycine seg- 
ments ovate, obtuse. Corolla white; throat and scales blue. 
Carpels ovate, clothed with glochidate prickles. 
Canescent Hound's-tongue. | Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1819. Pl. 
2 feet. 
18 C. nirsutissiuum (Lehm. asper. p. 145.) stem erect, sim- 
ple; leaves narrow-lanceolate, half stem-clasping, acute, papil- 
losely-hairy on both surfaces; hairs spreading; racemes soli- 
tary, elongated, bractless. (2.? H. Native of Africa. Stem 
very hairy. Peduncles hairy, terminal and lateral, racemifer- 
ous. Calyx hairy, with oblong, obtuse segments. Carpels beset 
with glochidate prickles. 
Very-hairy Hound's-tongue. Pl. 1 to 13 foot. 
19 C. revoru rum (Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 6. no. 8.) 
stem erect, branched; leaves lanceolate, acute: cauline ones 
sessile, hispid ; racemes subspicate, leafy, revolute at apex ; pe- 
dicels lateral. ©. H. Native of Peru, in Huassa-Huassi, in 
shady places. Pers. ench. 1. p. 160. Lebm. asper. p. 148. 
Plant hispid. Stem angular.  Pedicels drooping. Corolla 
whitish-blue. Carpels beset with glochidate prickles. 
Revolute-racemed Hound's-tongue. | Pl. 3 feet 
20 C. suavE'oreNs (R. Br. prod. p. 495. Lehm. asper. p. 
148.) leaves lanceolate, strigose; those of the branches half 
stem-clasping; racemes bracteate ; carpels echinated with equal 
glochidate prickles.—Native of New Holland. 
Smeet-scented-flowered Hound's-tongue. PI. 
21 C. Ausrra‘te (R. Br. l. c.) stems erect ; leaves lanceo- 
late, strigose on both surfaces ; racemes bractless ; carpels echi- 
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BORAGINEZ. XXXIII. Cynoerossum. 
nated with glochidate prickles: the prickles on the back fewer, 
and with a single row of longer ones along the margin.— Native 
of New Holland. 
Southern Hound's-tongue.  Pl.? 
22 C. tanucindsum (Lehm. asper. p. 148.) stem erect; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, half stem-clasping, woolly, and 
hoary ; racemes terminal, loose, bractless.—Native country un- 
known. Stem furrowed, simple, white from wool. Calyx 
woolly, with lanceolate, bluntish segments. Corolla very like 
that of C. officinale. Carpels ovate, covered with glochidate 
prickles. 
Woolly Hound's-tongue. Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
23 C. czANpzsTI'NuM (Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 159. t. 42.) stem 
erect; leaves narrow-lanceolate, bluntish, half stem-clasping, 
hairy ; racemes bractless ; corolla villous at top. 4. H. Na- 
tive of Portugal and Algiers. Hoffm. et Link. fl. port. 1. p. 
190. Horn. hort. hafn. 1. p. 117. Lehm. asper. p. 149. C. 
officinale, Brot. fl. lus. 1. p. 295. C. fülvum, Rudolph. in 
Schrad. journ. 1795. p. 295. Pers. ench. under Auchüsa Itá- 
lica. Root fusiform. Plant pilose. Pedicels and calyxes 
clothed with dense, yellow, silky hairs. Calycine segments lan- 
ceolate, obtuse. Corolla violaceous, hardly longer than the calyx ; 
limb tomentosely villous at apex. Carpels ovate, covered with 
glochidate prickles. 
Clandestine Hound's-tongue. 
Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
24 C. Droscónipis (Vill. dauph. 2. p. 457. prosp. p. 21. ex- 
clusive of the synonymes. Lehm. asper. p. 150.) stem erect ; 
leaves narrow-lanceolate, acuminated, dilated at the base, rather 
hispid ; racemes elongated, bractless, loose. &. H. Native of 
Dauphiny. C. elongàtum, Horn. hort. hafn. 2. p. 956. C. 
Virginicum, Willd. enum. 1. p. 180. exclusive of the syno- 
nymes; C.remótum, Moench, meth. p. 419. Root fusiform. 
Stem simple, canescent, beset with retrograde hairs. Racemes 
pilose, terminal and axillary in the spontaneous plant; but ter- 
minating the stem and branches in the cultivated plant. Caly- 
cine segments ovate, obtuse. Corolla red or flesh-coloured, 
with deeper veins. Carpels ovate, clothed with short glochidate 
bristles. 
Dioscorides's Hound's-tongue. 
Pl. 14 to 2 feet. 
25 C. orriciNA'LE (Lin. spec. p. 192. fl. suec. 162. hort. 
cliff. 47.) stem erect, leafy; lower leaves broad-lanceolate: su- 
perior ones broadest at the base, acute, canescent from downy 
tomentum ; racemes bractless, panicled at the time the flowers 
are open. 4. H. Native of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North 
America, in waste places, and by way sides and margins of 
fields, and particularly near towns ; in Britain, in like situations, 
but a doubtful native. Scop. fl. carn. ed. 2d. p. 124. Vill. 
dauph. 2..p. 456. All. ped. 1. no. 124. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 
158. Suter, fl. helv. 1. p. 105. Smith, engl. bot. t. 921. 
Oed. fl. dan. t. 1147. Curt. fl. lond. t. 149. Regnault, bot. 3. 
t. 364. Sturm, fl. germ. fasc. 9. icone. Baumg. fl. trans. 1. 
p. 122. Pursh. fl. 1. p. 123.  Mayrhoff, fl. mon. t. 23. 
Led. fl. alt. 1. p. 196.—Blackw. herb. t. 249.— Plenck. icon. t. 
76. Stem sulcately angular, branched at top, beset with soft, 
incumbent hairs. Flowers nutant, secund. Racemes termi- 
nating the stem and branches, canescent, villous. Calycine seg- 
ments oblong, connivent. Corolla reddish ; processes of the 
throat purple. Carpels ovate, densely clothed with glochidate 
prickles. ‘The whole plant has a disagreeable smell, like most 
of the species, much resembling that of mice. It is suspected 
to possess narcotic qualities. It has formerly been used in 
medicine ; and Mr. Ray informs us, from Dr. Hulse, that a de- 
coction of the roots inwardly, and cataplasms of them outwardly, 
Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1821. 
Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1820. 
