PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Lycopsis. 267 



A. spuria. Dod i Pempt. 356./. 



Alysson germanicum echioides. Lob. Ic. 803. f. Dalech.HistA 143./. 



Aparine major Plinii. Ger. Em. 1122./. 



Borrago minor sylvestris xa^iro%>jvo7r8;. Column. Ecphr. 181. t. 183. 



Cynoglossatopiaria forte Plinii. Bauh. Hist.v.3.6i)\.f. The same 

 cut is put in the preceding page, for C. folio virente ! 



German Madwort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 29. / 12. 



In rich waste ground, but rare. 



Near Newmarket -, by Boxley, in Sussex ; and in the Holy island. 

 Ray. At Wangford, near Brandon. Mr. F. Eagle. Near Pur- 

 fleet, Essex, found by Mr. Alchorne. Huds. About the church 

 at Newmarket. Kelhan. At Dunbar. Lightfoot, Hooker. 



Annual. June, July. 



Root small, tapering. Stems prostrate, square, leafy, a foot or two 

 in length, their angles beset with reflexed prickles. Leaves 

 2, 3, or 4 together, dark green, elliptic-lanceolate, bordered 

 with direct prickles, and rough with depressed bristly hairs, so 

 that the plant sticks to the hands or clothes like Galium Aparine. 

 Flowers small, axillary, solitary, on short stalks ; limb of a fine 

 deep blue j valves white or reddish. Cal. when in fruit de- 

 flexed, much enlarged. Seeds whitish, finely granulated. Co- 

 lumna's Greek appellation compares the enlarged calyx, aptly 

 enough, to a Goose's foot. This appears to be the only genuine 

 species of Asperugo, so that the specific character is superfluous. 



95. LYCOPSIS. Bugloss. 



Linn. Gen. 78. Juss. 131. Fl. Br. 220. Lam. *.92. Gartn. t. 67. 

 Echioides. Dill. Gen. 100. t. 3. 



Nat. Orel, see n. 87. 



Col. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, oblong, acute, erect, or 

 somewhat spreading, segments, permanent. Cor. of 1 

 petal, funnel-shaped ; tube cylindrical, curved to one side 

 just above the base, and recurved towards the summit; 

 limb in 5 rather deep, rounded segments, sometimes ob- 

 lique, and slightly irregular; mouth closed with 5 rounded, 

 convex, hairy, converging valves. Filam. very small, within 

 the tube at its uppermost curvature. Anth. oblong, in- 

 cumbent. Germ. 4. Style thread-shaped, half the length 

 of the tube. Stigma obtuse, notched. Seeds 4, ovate, angu- 

 lar, with a bordered scar, attached to the base of the en- 

 larged swelling calyx. 



Herbaceous, bristly and warty. Leaves for the most part 

 sessile, alternate, often wavy, or slightly sinuated. Clus- 

 ters terminal, solitary, or in pairs, somewhat bracteated, 

 Fl. bright blue, or purplish. 



