Tas. 6890. 
CERINTHE muon. 
Native of Southern Europe and Western Asia. 
Nat. Ord. Boracinrx.—Tribe Borage. 
Genus CerintuE, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 854.) 
CERINTHE minor; glabra, glauca, caulibus erectis ramosis foliosis, foliis lavibus 
v. verrucosis inferioribus oblongis ovato-oblongisve, superioribus sessilibus 
ovato-cordatis serrulatis, racemis valde elongatis, bracteis auriculato-cordatis, 
sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis serrulatis, corolle tubo calyce longiore, 
lobis lanceolatis acuminatis erecto-conniventibus demum reflexis, filamentis 
brevissimis, antheris anguste lanceolatis in appendicem lanceolatam acuminatam 
productis, carpellis levibus. 
C. minor, Linn. Sp. Pl. 772; DC. Prodr. x.2; Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, vol. i. 
p. 295; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 148; Jacg. Fl. Austr. vol. ii. p. 15, 
t. 224; Reichb., Ic. Crit. vol. iii. fig. 481, and Le. Fl. Germ. vol. xviii. 
t. 1295; Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. vol. vi. t. 66. 
A hardy herbaceous plant, of short duration, and 
described as either biennial or perennial, very variable in 
character, and of its forms or varieties at least five species 
have been made, all brought together by Boissier in his 
“Flora Orientalis.” It was introduced into England as 
long ago as 1570 by Mr. Hugh Morgan, and is figured in 
a rude wood-cut, with a description, though not a botanical 
one, in Lobel’s ** Adversaria” (p. 172). As an ornamental 
plant it is not to be compared with C. major (Bor. Mac. 
t. 333), or the rare C. gymnandra (t. 6130). 
O. minor is a native of a wide range of country, extending 
from the Alps of Dauphiny to Middle and South Russia, 
inhabiting also Italy and Dalmatia, Greece, Asia Minor, 
Syria, Armenia, and N. Persia; it varies greatly in the size 
of the leaves, which are all green or spotted with white, 
and smooth or warted; the corolla is all yellow, or has a 
yellow tube and purple lobes or vice versa (as in the 
“specimen here figured), or it has purple spots on the 
_ throat; the appendages of the anthers, too, vary in length. 
The specimen here figured is from a plant that flowered at 
Kew, where it has long been cultivated in the Herbaceous 
- Ground, flowering in July. 
- avGust. lst, 1886. 
