( 1826 ) 



ECHIUM RUBRUM. RED ViPER's BtGLOSS. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 

 Corolla irregularis, ' fauce nuda. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Echium rubrum ; caule erecto hispido, foliis lineari-lanceo- 

 latis, spica composita [vel subsimplici] terminali, corollis 

 subsequalibus. Willd. Sp. PL 1. p. 787. Hort. Kew. ed. 

 alt. I p. SOI. 



Echium rubrum; caule ex racemulis brevibus longe spicato, 

 corollis subaequalibus, foliis hispidis. Host Syn. 9. J acq. 

 Auslr. 5. p. 27. t. 3. 



Echium sylvestre hirsutum maculatum. Bauh. Pin. 354. 



Echium % rubro flore. Clus. Pan. 682. / 681. Clus. Hist. 

 163. 



Descr. Stems erect, firm, from one to two feet high, 

 hispid, spotted with purple. Leaves scattered, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, acute, covered with soft hairs. Floicers grow in the 

 axils of the leaves, according to Jacquin and Clusius, in 

 very short curled racemes, but in our plant consisting of two 

 flowers only, so that the spike was rather simple than com- 

 pound. Calyx 5-cleft; segments subulate, hairy, equal to 

 the tube, but only half the length of the corolla : faux cam- 

 panulate ; border five-cleft ; lucinite subbilabiately arranged, 

 the upper one being somewhat longer than the rest and 

 emarginate. Stamens longer than corolla, unequal, declined : 

 anthers oval, incumbent, with blue pollen. Style nearly 

 equal to the stamens, somewhat hairv : stigma acute. 



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