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like Borage in properties ; introduced from Britain ; flowers 



yellow. 



PULMONARIA. L. 5. 1. 



P. officinalis. L. Lungwort. Probably named from its use 

 in pulmonary affections ; a native of England ; rather rare, even 

 in gardens. 



Cynoglossum. L. 5. 1. Hound's Tongue. 

 The English name is the translation of the generic name, from 

 the Greek. 



C. officinale. L. Common Hound's Tongue. A woolly 

 plant, bearing deep-red flowers, by roads and in fields ; of offen- 

 sive odor. It has been used as antiscrofulous ; seems to be a 

 native of this country as well as England. 



C. Virginicum. L. Hairy also, with a stem nearly hispid ; 

 flowers blue. It is rather doubtful whether this species is in 

 Berkshire County, as once announced. Shady w^oods ; May. 



LiTHosPERMUM. L. 5. 1. Stone Seed. 

 The English name is a translation of the generic name. 



L. arvense. L. Corn Gromwell. Bearing white flowers, 

 with rough, hairy, sessile leaves. 



L. officinale. L. Common Gromwell. Covered with stiff 

 hairs, with yellow axillary flowers, a foot or two high. This and 

 the preceding are not very common plants of the fields ; doubtless 

 introduced from Europe. 



Lycopsis. L. 5. 1. 



L. arvensis. L. Small Bugloss. Grows in sandy fields, 

 very hispid, with bright-blue flowers in a raceme ; corolla funnel- 

 form, with the tube incurved, and the throat closed with scales. 



Named from the Greek for icolf and ej/e, on account of the im- 



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