116 PETANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 



tricose, half 5-cIeft, seis^ments connivent, acute. 

 Jinthers sessile, included. Style much exserted, 

 entire, acute. 



Leaves longitudinally nerved; flowers in recurved, leafy 

 spikes. 



Species. 1. O. hispidvm. 2. moUe. A genus peculiar to 

 the United States, but very neai'ly allied to Oiiosma Flow- 

 ers yellowisli-white, somewhat like those of Symphytum. 



175. LYCOPSIS. L. (Small Bugloss.) 



Calix 5-cleft, inflated oi* ventricose. Corolla 

 funnel- formed, tube incurved; orifice closed with 

 convex protuberances. Stigma bifid. 



Flowers sofitary or collected into a raceme or spike, ax- 

 illary or terminal. In some species the tube of tlie corolla 

 is straii^ht. 



Species. 1. />. a)'r'e7isis. 2.virginica. 

 This genus exists chiefly in tlie 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. ECIIIUM. L. (Viper's Buj-loss.) 



Calix 5-])arted. Tube of the corolla short; 

 orifice naked; border wider than the tube, cam- 

 panuhite, unequal, and obli(iuely o-lobed. Stig- 

 ma bifid. 



Flowers in simple or panicidated spikes, spikes unila- 

 teral. Most ot the African ^ptcies are shrubby. 



Species. 1. E. vulgare. Very common in Virginia 

 where it is now but too generally naturalized, and there 

 called " Blue-weed." 



'I iie genus Echiv.m appears to exist chiefly in the more 

 temperate parts of Alnca, particularly at ti.e Cape of 

 Good Hope, in Barbary, in the ible of Tenenffe, and in 

 Eg\pt; tliere are a few species also indigenous to the 

 South ot Europt . According to Gnielin the women of the 

 Don (in Russia) colour their cheeks with the root of the 

 Kchinm )vbrvm. The same use is also made of the root of 

 Onosma Echiokks by the wom.en of lariai-y. 



If Flowers monopetalouSf inferior^ fruit covered* 



177. PHACELIA. Jussieu, 



Calix 5-parted. Corolla subcampanulatc, 5- 

 cleit; with 5 longitudinal iniirgined melliferous 



