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PULMONARIA VlRGINlCA. VIRGINIA 



Lungwort. 



Cla/s and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. 

 Corolla infundibuliformis fauce pervia. Calyx prifmatico* 

 pentagonus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 

 PULMONARIA Virginica calycibus abbreviads, foliis Ian- 

 ceolads obtufiufculis. Linn. Syji. Veg. ed> 

 14. Murr. p. 187. 

 PULMONARIA non maculofa, floribus tubulofislongis pul- 

 cherrimis caeruleis, in panicula pendula 

 congeftis, foliis teneribus glabris lads ob- 

 tufis, ad margin es aequalibus, pediculis di- 

 lute purpureis infidentibus, radice crafla 

 inftar fymphyti. Mountain Cowflip. Clayt. 

 Gron. Fl. Virg. p. 25. 



Miller informs us in his Dictionary, that the Pulmonartt 

 Virginica grows naturally upon mountains in moft parts 01 

 North-America, that the feeds were fent many years fince, by 

 Mr. Banister, from Virginia; and fome of the plants were 

 raifed in the garden of the Bifhop of London, at Fulham, 

 where for feveral years it was growing. 



Though a native of Virginia, it ranks with the hardy her- 

 baceous plants of our gardens, and flowers in the open border 

 about the middle of April ; the bloflbms before their expan- 

 fion are of a reddifh purple colour, when fully blown they 

 become of a light bright blue, the foliage is glaucous, ° r 

 blueiih green; it is faid to vary with white and flefli-coloureu 

 flowers. 



In favourable feafons, the Flower-Garden owes much of i| s 

 gaiety to this elegant plant, and at a time when ornament I s 

 moft defirable. 



It requires a pure air, and a fituation moderately fheltered, 

 as the cold eafterly winds which too readily prevail in Ap rl '» 

 when it is in flower, are apt to deface it. 



It is ufually propagated by parting its roots in autumn, a nd 

 is a free grower. 



