116 PETANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. ~ 
tricose, half 5-cleft, segments connivent, acute. 
“inthers sessile, included. Style much exserted, 
entire, acute. 
Leaves longitudinally nerved; flowers i in recurved, leafy 
spikes. 
Srrcies. 1. O. hispidum. 2: molle. A genus peculiar to 
the United States, but very nearly allied to Onosma. Flow- 
ers yellowish-white, somewhat like those of Symphytum. 
175. LYCOPSIS. L (Small Bugloss. ) 
Calix 5-cleft, inflated or ventricose. Corolla 
funnel-formed, tube incurved; orifice closed with 
convex protuberances. Stigma bifid. 
, Flowers solitary or collected into a raceme or spike, ax- 
illary or termin ae In some species the tube of ye corolla 
is straight. 
Species. 1. L. arvensis. 2. virginica. 
This genus exists chiefly in the South of Europe, in ; 
Barbary, and in the East, there is also 1 species # in Egypt, 
1 in Crete, 1 in Chio, and another in Tartary. — 
176. ECHIUM. L. (Viper’s Bugloss.) 
Calix 5-parted. Tube of the ai shorts 
orifice naked; border wider than the tube, cam- 
panulate, unequal, and obliquely 5-lobed, Stig- 
ao spikes ila: 
Flo uniua- 
teral. waren simple or, panicled opie 
Srecies. 1. E. vulgare. Very common in Virginia 
where it is now but too generally naturalized, and there 
called * Blue-weed.” 
The genus Echium appears to exist chiefly in the more 
ae parts of Africa, particularly at the Cape of 
Good Hope, in Barbary, in the isle of Teneriffe, and in 
Egypt; there are a few species also indigenous to the 
_ South of Europe. \ccording to Gmelin the women of the 
_ Don (in Russia) colour their cheeks with the root of the 
 Echium rubrum. The same use is nlny sacle Se root of 
_ Onosma Echioides by the women of Vartary. 
+H Flowers monopetalous, inferior, fruit covered. 
477. PHACELIA. Jussieu. 
Calix 5-parted. Corolla subcampanulate, 5- 
_ cet with Sangitudinal marginel mel ous 
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