430 MR. 6. C. LACAITA: A REVISION oF 
Lycopsis altera anglica, Lob., which, be it noted, does not mean “another 
English Lycopsis,” but “another Lycopsis, the English one.” An unfor- 
tunate expression, for that word * Anglica," which only meant that Lobel 
had grown the plant in England, misled the later authors [e. g., Parkinson, 
Theatr. p. 518 (1640) ], who wrongly assumed that Lycopsis anglica must be 
a native English plant. If they had read a few lines farther they would 
have found Lobel saying : ** Hæc ab ea quie hic in Anglia via quæ Bathonia 
et Bristolia Londinum ducit per messes læta et multa hilari videtur 
aspectu, floribus tantum differt; quos non secus foliorum et alarum inter- 
stitia, sed in summis caulibus saturatiore purpureo, Anchuse majoris. Ut 
prior (se. Anchusa lignosior angustifolia) subrubra linet et nonnihil rubelli 
affricat digitis," meaning that his Lycopsis altera. Anglica is not the common 
English Vipers Bugloss, which he had admired in the fields near the 
Dath Road. i 
Caspar Bauhin, in his *Pinax ' (1623), enumerates on p. 254 eleven plants 
under the name of /eAiwin (not all belonging to the modern genus), including 
E. vulgare as no. 2. Then on p. 255 he has two species of Lycopsis, the 
second of which, Lycopsis «qgyptiaea, does not concern us, but to the first, 
which is “ Lycopsis " simply, he appends a long list of synonyms, and among 
them are Lehii altera species, Dod., Lycopsis vel Lycapsis degener Anchusa 
«Eginete, Ad., and Lycopsis altera Anglica, Lob. It is therefore certain that 
C. Bauhin considered Lobel’s plant identical with his own ** Lycopsis.” But 
his remark at the end of the list of synonyms lets the cat out of the bag, for 
it is only intelligible of /. plantagineum and cannot apply to K. pyrenaicum. 
It is “ Aliquando caule caret; Monspeliaca flore est dilute purpureo; anglica 
saturatioris est purpura." Now E. plantagineum often occurs in a dwarf 
form, and the colour of the corollas varies just as stated by C. B., sometimes 
a pale reddish purple predominating, particularly in the Ionian Islands 
(cf. Fl. Gr. tab. 179), sometimes a full purplish blue which dries blue. We 
must therefore bear in mind that Lycopsis anglica, Lob., is E. pyrenaicum, 
but Lycopsis or Lycopsis anglica, C. B. P., is chium plantagineum *. 
J. Bauhin, Hist. Pl. iii. p. 586 (1561), absurdly says of Lobel’s two 
figures, ** ambe nostrum Fchium vulgare referunt,” which they do not. Bis 
own two figures are different. They represent /. vulgare and his £. albo 
Jlore majus, which is Æ. italicum. 
Merrett, Pinax Rer. Nat. Brit. p. 34 (1666), following Parkinson, claims 
Lycopsis anglica (of Gerard and therefore of Lobel) as a British plant. He 
speaks of Æ. vulgare, Ger., “in muris et locis siccis," and of “ Echium 
alterum sive Lycopsis anglica as growing “cum priore," so he regarded this 
asa companion form of Jehiwm. Richardson (see below) understood him to 
mean var. parviflorum. 
is An examination of Bauhin's herbarium at Bale would be desirable to confirm the 
above. 
