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what ovate, or rather lanceolate, broad pointed, hairy, alternate, and 
on the upper fide fpeckled with whitifh maculz: the radical leaves 
are broader, and more elongated towards the bafe : the flowers appear 
in terminal fafciculi, and are reddifh and purple: the calyx is a prifm _ 
of five fides, rough, and divided at the mouth into five fhort pointed 
fegments: the corolla is funnel-fhaped, confifting of a cylindrical 
tube, open at the mouth, and a fpreading limb, cut at the margin 
into five obtufe fegments: the five filaments are very fhort, placed at 
the mouth of the tube, and furnithed with fimple yellow antherz : 
the germen is quadrifid, fupporting a tapering ftyle of the length of 
the calyx, and crowned with a blunt notched ftigma: the feeds are 
four, roundifh, and lodged at the bafe of the calyx. 
This plant i is rarely found to grow wild in England, but is very 
commonly cultivated in gardens, where its leaves become broader, and 
approach more to a cordate fhape, as appears by the detached leaves 
reprefented in the plate. The figure itfelf, however, exhibits a {peci~ 
men of the fpontaneous growth of this country. 
The leaves, which are the part medicinally ufed, have no peculiar 
fmell, but in their recent ftate manifeft a flightly aftringent and mu- 
cilaginous tafte ; hence it feems not wholly without foundation, that 
they have been fappofed to be demulcent and pectoral. 
They have been recommended in hemoptoés, tickling coughs, and 
catarrhal deflu€tions upon the lungs. The name Pulmonaria, how- 
ever, feems to have arifen rather from the {peckled appearance of 
thefe leaves, refembling that of the lungs, than from any intrinfic 
quality which experience difcovered to be ufeful in pulmonary com- 
plaints. 
LITHOSPERMUM . 
