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summit : receptacle of the seed, or tumid base of the style, 

 depressed. 



55. Lithospermum officinale. — Wales, June 11, 1828. — 

 Leaves with lateral veins. Tube of the corolla closed with 

 five roundish teeth, (hollow underneath,) constituting the 

 *' protuberances at the base of each segment ;" they are not 

 placed at the sinus, as in Myosotis. Segments of the corolla 

 notched at the summit. 



56. Lithospermum arvense. — Gloddarth, June, 1828. — 

 Scarcely any prominence at the base of the segment of the 

 corolla, and such as is visible is only a termination of the 

 elevated lines of the inside of the tube. Seeds spreading, as 

 well as the enlarged calyx: hairs of the leaf strong and 

 appressed. Corolla externally hairy ; segments of the limb 

 entire. * 



57. Lithospermum wzojnYimMm. — Llandudno, June, 1828. — 

 Leaves of the stem too narrow to be termed " ovate," the 

 radical ones are, however, of that shape. Stem-leaves gene- 

 rally recurved. Segments of the calyx keeled, with reflexed 

 margins, so that the calyx, when unexpanded, appears to be 

 prismatic : the hollow protuberances are found at the base 

 of the segments of the corolla. Seeds not evidently keeled. 



58. Anagallis tenella. — July, 1828. — Stamens connected 

 at the base, where they form a tube, and clothed, at the 

 back only, with jointed hairs, from the middle upwards; 

 these jointed hairs are clubbed at the extremity, and round 

 each joint are four or five knobs ; the lower part of the fila- 

 ments is bare ; and the tubular base is connected with the 

 tube of the corolla; both falling off together. 



59. Viola hirta. — April, 1827. — There is indeed, as Pro- 

 fessor Henslow observes, a very great resemblance between 

 this and V, odorata, the principal difference lying in the short 

 side-shoots, or runners, of V. hirta, which do not take root. 

 In V. odorata, the hairs of the flower-stalks and leaf-stalks are 

 deflexed, the calyx-leaves more evidently fringed, and I think 

 not 3-ribbed, as in the other species ; the hairy line on the 



