PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Echium. 267 



Dr. Lehmaiin has reduced this genus to Anchusa, with 

 which it agrees in the bordered scar of the seed; but the 

 curvature of the Uibe affords a remarkable and constant 

 character, and I concur with Professor Hooker in keep- 

 ing them distinct, notwithstanding the above eminent au- 

 thority. 



1. \u. arvensis. Small Bugloss. 



Leaves lanceolate, wavy, somewhat toothed, very bristly. 

 Stalks of the flowers and fruit erect. Limb of the corolla 

 slightly unequal. 



L. arvensis. Linn. Sp. PL 199. mUd. v. 1 . 780. Fl. Br. 221 . Engl. 

 Bot. V. 14. i. 938. Curt. Lond. fuse. 5. t. 17. Hook. Scot. 70. Fl. 

 Dan. f.435. Ehrh. PL Of. ,382. 



L. n. G05. IlalL Hist. v. 1.2G8. 



Anchusa arvensis. Lehm. Asperif. 225. Bieberst. Taur. -Caucus. 

 r. 1.123. 



Buglossa svlvcstris minor. liaii Syn. 227. Ger.Em. 700./. 



Echion. Fuchs. Hist. 268. t. 269. 



Echioides. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 7. 



In fields, waste ground, and on dry banks, common. 



Annual. June. 



Root small, tapering, whitish. Whole herb very bristly and i)rickly. 

 Stem erect, branched, slightly angular, leafy, 1 to 2 feet high. 

 Leaves light green, single-ribbed ; the lower ones bluntest, and 

 tapering down into footstalks ; the rest sessile, or clasping the 

 stem. Clusters in pairs, forked, revolute : erect, displaying 

 their enlarged bristly hracteas, when in fruit. Partial stalks 

 shorter than the calyx, erect, especially in fruit. Cal. very bristly. 

 Cor. bright blue 5 tube and valves white ; limb a little irregular 

 and inclining. Seeds hard, grey, ovate, pointed, wrinkled and 

 granulated. 



96. ECHIUM. Viper's-bugloss. 



Linn.Gen.78. Juss.lSO. FL Br. 22\. Tourn.t.oA. Lam. t. 04. 

 Gairin. t. 67. 



Nat. Ord. see 11. 87. 



CaL inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, awl-shaped, upright seg- 

 ments, permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, bell-sha})cd ; tul)e 

 very short; limb erect, gradually dilated u})ward, its 

 margin in 5, more or less unequal, broad, rather spread- 

 ing segments, of which the 2 up})ermost are longest, tiie 

 lower one smallest and most reflexed ; mouth t)})en and 

 naked. Filani. awl-shapcd, une(|ual, declining, as long as 

 the corolla, or longer, inserted into the IuIjc. AiU/t, 



