266 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Lycopsis. 



A, spuria. Dod. Pempt.SoG.f. 



Alysson germanicum echioides. Lob. Zc. 803./. Dalech.HistA 143./. 



Aparine major Plinii. Ger. Em. 1122./ 



Borrago minor sylvestris y.ap7ro;/73vo7ry;. Column. Ecphr. 1 8 1 . <. 1 83. 



Cynoglossa topiaria forte Plinii. Banh. Hisf. v. 3. 601 ./. 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. Relhan. 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 Aparlne. 

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

 deep blue • 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 Jsperugo, so that the specific character is superfluous. 



95. LYCOPSIS. Biigloss. 



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

 Echioides. Dill. Gen. 100. t.2. 



Nat. Orel, see n, 87. 



Cal. 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 vvith 5 rounded, 

 convex, hairy, converging valves. Fila/ii. very small, within 

 the tube at its uppermost curvature. A?itk. oblong, in- 

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

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

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

 larged swelling calyx. 



Herbaceous, bristly and warty. Leaves for the most part 

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

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

 Fl. briglit blue, or pur])lish. 



