262 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. PnLraonaria. 



Bv road sides and hedges, in shady situations, rare. 



In several parts of Essex, Worcestershire, Kent, and Surrey. Ray, 

 Dillenius. In Oxfordshire. Sibth. Near Norwich. Andrew 

 Caldwell, Esq. Found by Mr. G. Don, in the Carse of Gowrie, 

 Scotland. Hooker. 



Biennial. June. 



Undoubtedly distinct from the common species, in its bright shining 

 green colour, and want of downy softness, besides having 

 scarcely any scent. The leaves are smooth on the upper side, 

 except from the prominence of the callous warts of the under 

 surface when pressed 3 the latter being rough to the touch, and 

 more or less hairy. Flowers at first opening reddish j subse- 

 quently of a dull blue. The Stem-leaves have a few short paral- 

 lel lateral ribs at the base. 



91. PULMONARIA. Lungwort. 



Linn. Gen. 75. Juss. 130. Fl.Br.2\7. Tourn.t.55. Lam. t. 93. 

 Nat. Orel, see n. 87. 



Cat. inferior, of 1 leaf, tubular, prismatic, with 5 angles ; 

 the border in 5 equal segments. Cor. of 1 petal, funnel- 

 shaped ; tube cylindrical, as long as the calyx ; limb in 5 

 rounded, moderately spreading, segments ; mouth naked 

 and open. Filam. in the throat, very short. Anth. oval, 

 erect, converging. Germ. 4, roundish, downy. Style 

 thread-shaped, shorter than the calyx. Stigma small, 

 bluntish, notched. Seeds 4, almost globular, even and 

 polished, hairy, attached to the base of the enlarged, beli- 

 shaped calyx. 



Herbaceous, hairy, of humble growth. Fl. of a violet blue, 

 crowded, erect. 



1. P. officinalis. Common Lungwort. 

 Leaves ovate. 



P. officinalis. Linn. Sp. PL 194. mild. v. 1. 768. Fl. Br. 217. 



Engl. Bot. v.2. t.]\8, excluding the radical leaves. Woodo. suppl. 



t.2\2. mth.228. Abbot 42. Hook.Scot.69. DonH. Br.\b7. 



Fl.Dan. t.482. 

 P. n. 597. Halt. Hist. v. 1. 264. 

 P. maculosa. Ger. Em. 808./. Lob. Ic. 586./. 

 P. altera. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 387./ Camer. Epit. 784. / 

 In woods and thickets, but rare. 

 In Cliff wood, 6 miles west of Darlington, Durham. Mr.E. Bobson. 



Between Thurleigh and Milton- Ernys, Bedfordshire. Rev. Dr. 



Abbot. Common in Exbury wood, Hampshire. Mr. Rudge. 

 Perennial. May. 



