g5 BORAGINEiE. [Zithospermum. 



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5. OMPHALODES. Juss. 



Cor, rotata: fauce fornicibus brevibus clausa. Limbus 5-partitus, obtusus. Nuces 4, 

 uniloculares, depressas, margine membrana inflexa, calathiformes, columni centrali affixae, 

 basi imperforata?. 



L O. linifolia; foliis radicalibus cuneiformibus, caulinis lineari-lanceolatis glabris mar- 

 gine denticulato-ciliatis, racemis ebracteatis. — Mcench, Method, p. 419. Lehm. Asper, v, 1. 

 p, 187, — Cynoglossum linifolium, L, — Moris, HisLB, Sect, 11. t, 30. yi 11. BarreL Icon, 

 1234, — Ricotia linifolia. Ecem, et Schult. SysL Veg, v, 4. p, 86, 



Hab. Sent by Dr, Moruon from Labrador, An re vera in America boreali indigena? — [Probably cul- 

 tivated; yet it is singular that a tender annual of Spain and Portugal should come to perfection and bear 

 seed, as the specimen shows, in so norlhern a region as Labrador, Hook.'] 



6. LITHOSPERMUM. Z. 



CaL 5-partitus, Cor. infundibuliformis : fauce pervia, nuda. Antherce oblongse inclusae, 

 Nuces 4, uniloculares, ovatas, fundo calycis affixae, basi imperforatse. 



Sectio I. Florihus suhpaniculatis, Nucibus Imvibus vel rugosis. Folds radicalibus post 



florescentiam excrescentibus, (Pulmonaui^.) 



1. Z. maritimum; caulibus procumbentibus ramosls, foliis ovatis obtusiusculis carnosis 

 glabris glaucescentibus, calycibus glabris. — Lehm. Asper, v, 2./?, 291. Torr* FL v, 1./?. 

 202. — Pulmonaria maritima. L. Sp, PL v, I, p. 195. EngL Bat, t.MS, — Pulmonaria par- 

 viflora. Mich. FL v. I, p. 131. Pursh. FL v, I. p, 131. 



Hab. Canada. Mrs. Percival. Newfoundland and Labrador, {Miss Brenton, Dr, ilfomon), through- 

 out the Arctic sea-shores {Dr. RicJiardson, Captain Sir E, Parry, §*c.) to Behring's Strait, {Lay and 

 Collie, Chamisso, ^c), and the N.W, Coast, Menzies. 



2* jL. marginatum ; caule glabro erccto, foliis radicalibus petiolatis obovato-oblongis, 

 caulinis oblongo-spatbulatis acutis semiamplexicaulibus margine hispidls, calycibus gla- 

 bris laciniis acuminatis margine hispidis. — Spreng, Syst, Veg, v. 1.^.54-7. — Pulmonaria 

 marginata. Nutt. Am, v, \, p, 115. — Pulmonaria lanceolata. Pursh, Am, v, 2, p, 729, 



Hab. Elevated banks of the Columbia (common). Douglas, 



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3. L, Druinmondii (Lehm.); caule glabro ascendente, foliis radicalibus ovato-lanceolatis 

 caulinis sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis callosis subdenticulatis glaucis, paniculis terminalibus 

 congestis, calycibus glabris laciniis acutiusculis subdenticulatis. — Lehm, Pugil, II. p, 26. 



Caules plures ex eadem radice, adscendentes, glaberrimi, teretes, semipedales. Folia radicalia, ovato- 

 lanceolata; caulina oblongo-lanccolata, acuta, subdenticulata, glauca, superne calloso-punctata, 3-ner- 

 via. Flores paniculati, in summo caule congesti, Pedunculi foliis m^ulto breviores, 2-3 Hn. longi, 3-5- 

 flori. PcdicelH calycibus breviores, glaberrimi, suberecti. Calyx glaber, 5-partitus : laciniis lanceolatis 

 acutiusculis, margine subdenticulatis. Corolla calyce subtriplo longior, fere seniipollicaris, cyanea. Tubus 

 cyUndricns calyce duplo longior, intus glaber, fauce notata protuberantiis quinque. Limbus campanulatus 

 longitudine tubi, 5-fidus, laciniis integerriniis, rotundatis. Filamenta sumnio tubo inserta, brevissima, 

 plana, membranacea : antheris Unearibus, Stylus stamina aequans, linearis, compressus; stigmate capitate. 



Hab. Arctic sea-shore. Dr. Richardson. — [To me this seems to have too close an affinity witbZ. Vir- 

 yinicum.1 Hook, 



