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ANCHUSA OFFICINALIS. OFFICINAL BUGLOSS, 
| eclid 0% Or ALKANET. 
SYNONYM, Bugloffum. Pharm. Park. Parad. 249., Geoff. 
 w, iii. 226. Dale. 136... Alfon, vol. ii.gt. Lewis. 167. Bergius. 
79. Murray. vol. ii. 98. New Edinb. Difpenf. 152. Bugloffum 
anguftifolium majus. Baub. Pin. 256. Bugloffla vulgaris. Ger. 
Emac. 798, Flor, Dan. t, 572.) “3% 8) % ? 
Pentandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 182. ! 
Gen. Ch. Cor. infundibulif, fauce claufa fornicibus, Sem. bafi 
ee infculpta. ena e : 
Sp. Ch. A. foliis lanceolatis firigofis, fpicis fecundis imbricatis, 
calycibus quinquepartitis, Hort. Kew. — 
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ROOT perennial, large, tapering. Stem about two feet high, ered, 
angular, ftrong, rough, hairy branched towards the top. Leaves. 
alternate, narrow, lanceolate, pointed, rough, hairy, edges eroded, 
and fomewhat undulated. Flowers purple, produced in corymbi, 
both lateral and terminal. Calyx rough, cut into five acute ere& 
fegments. Corolla funnel-fhaped, tube long, cylindrical: limb 
divided into five obtufe fegments: mouth of the tube clofed by five 
neGtarious feales. Filaments five, fhort, placed in the upper part of 
the tube, and furnifhed with fimple ‘brownith anthere. Germen 
quadrifid: ftyle nearly as long as the tube, tapering, and terminated 
by an emarginated ftigma. Seeds four, hollowed out at the bafe.— 
The flowers appear in fucceffion from June till OGober. 
It is a native of the Continent of Europe, but not indigenous to 
this Ifland. Mr. P. Miller cultivated it here in 1748, and we now 
find it in moft gardens where variety of herbaccous ornamental plants 
is an objet of attention, 3 , 7 
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