114 PENTANDRIA. M0N06YNIA. 



fice naked or partially closed; border orbicii- 

 late, nearly flat, segments rounded. Seed indu- 

 rated, shining, (as in Lithospermum.^ 



Flowers yellow or fulvous, axillary, almost fastigiate, in 

 short bracteate spikes; leaves narrow, without collateral 

 nerves. 



Species. 1. JB. Gmelini. 2- canescens. Flowers fulvous. 

 3. *longiflora. Hirsutely vihous, erect; leaves approxi- 

 mating-, lon,sr and linear, margin reflected; flowers in a 

 fastigiate fascicle; tube of the corolla somewhat pentan- 

 gular, (often from 10 to 15 lines lont> ) border flat, seg^ 

 ments fimbriate-crenate. — Flowers sulphur yellow. In 

 open plains; around the Prairie du Chien, Missisippi, and 

 on the banks of the Missouri to its sources. 4. *decumbens. 

 Hirsutely villous; stem decumbent; segments of the calix 

 and leavt s linear; flowers scattered; lobes of the corolla 

 fim!>riate-crenate, shorter than the tube — Around the 

 Mandan village. Nearly allied to the preceding. In both 

 these species the orifice is partly closed by 5 arched pro- 

 tuberances. 



All the species of this genus afford a crimson lac from 

 the root. 



172. CYNOGLOSSUM. Z. (Hounds-tongue.) 



Callx S-parted. Corolla funnel-formed, 5- 

 lobed, orifice closed by 5 connivent convex pro* 

 cesses. Stigma emarginate. Seed depressed, af- 

 fixed to the st}le on the inner side. 



Flowers spiked or clustered, axillary or terminal; leaves 

 villous or hiisjte; seeds echinate, muricate or scabrous, 

 ' rarely if ever smooth. 



Species. ». C officinale. 2. sylvaticum. 3. amplexi- 

 cmde. 4. pilosiim? Erect and hairv; radical leaves spathu- 

 late-oblong, the rest lanceolate-oblong, obtuse; flowers ax- 

 illary, almost spiked, unilateral (or secund); stamina very 

 short included; seed scabrous depressed, oblong, acute, 

 muricate on themarjcf-in. — On arid hills above Rapid river, 

 IVlssouri. Flowering in May; flowers white, small. 



Apparently a mere variety of the Pei uvian plant; judg- 

 ing from the plate in the Flora Peniviana. 



Of the genus r^?io^^ss?/wj there are 9 species, chiefly ia 

 the South of Europe, several of which are also common to 

 Barbary, besities these there are 4 at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 6 in Peru jgid Ch3i, 5 in Armenia and the East, 1 



