PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cynoglossum. 259 



an intermediate flower, and two principal ovate bracteas. 

 Leaves ovate. 

 A sempervirens. Linn. Sp. PL 192. mild.v.\.7h9. FLBr.2\5. 

 Eu^t. But. V. 1. ^ 45. Hook. Lond. t. 94. Scot. 68. Lehm.Asperif. 



2[\S. .. 



Buglossum latifolium semper virens. Bauh. Pin. 256. Ddl. in Ran 



Si/ n. 227. 



B. semper virens. Lob. Ic. J73.f. 



B. folio borraginis hispanicum. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 57/ -J. good. 



Bovago semper virens. Gcr. Em. 797. f- 



In waste ground, among ruins, and by road sides. 



Near Horns-place, near Rochester. J. Sherard. About Norwich 

 in several places, as well as at Haddiscoe, Norfolk. At Wal- 

 pole bv Halesworth, Sufiblk ; and in several parts of the south 

 of Scotland. Hooker. At Inverary. Rev. W. Wood. On the 

 ruins of Maes-glas monasterv, FHntshire. Rev. W.Bingley. Near 

 Birmindiam, Worcester, and Sidmouth. Withering. I9 several 

 places near Setde, Yorkshire. Dr. Windsor. )f]^' '^.''^^f.'^ ""'^ 



Perennial. May, June. /Orx^ '^ 



Root thick, mucilaginous ; externally black. Herb rough with ra- 

 ther rigid hairs. Stems 18 inches high, round, leaty, annual. 

 RadicaF/ef/re5 stalked, a span long, lasting through the winter j 

 the rest sessile ; all ovate, broad, with transverse veins. Par- 

 tial bracteas lanceolate. Flowers more salver-shaped than most 

 of the genus ; the tube but half as long as the hmb, which is of 

 a most brilliant sky-blue ; the valves white and downy. The 

 Hower-huds are reddish. Seeds ovate, brown, compressed, w:th 

 elevated wrinkles. Lehmann remarks that the cavity, or perfo- 

 ration, at the base of each seed is closed with a scale. 



90. CYNOGLOSSUM. HoundVtongue. 



Linn.Gen.7:>. Jmss. 131. F/.^r.216. Tourn.t.57. Lam. t. 92. 

 Gar In. t. 67 . 



Nat. Ord. see n, 87. 



CaL inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, oblong, sligluly acute se^^- 

 ments, permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, funnel-shaped, scarcely 

 lono-er than die calyx ; tube cylindrical, shorter than the 

 limb, which is divided halfway down into 5 rounded seg- 

 ments ; mouth about half closed with as many convex, 

 horizontal valves. Filam. in the throat, lower than the 

 valves and alternate with them. Ajith. roundish. Germens 

 4, depressed, horizontal. %/^ central, awl-shaped, almost 

 as long as the tube, permanent. Stigma small, notched. 

 Seeds 4-, depressed, roundish, imperforate at the base, 

 moj-e or less rough with hooked prickles, sometimes bor- 



