68 PENTAND. MONOG. 



2. LITHOSPERMLIM. 



1. L. ojjichiale [commcm Groivjvell), stem erect very inuch 

 blanched, leaves broadly lanceolate acute nerved rough above 

 hairy beneath, tube of the cor. as long as the cal., nuts smooth. 

 Light/, p. 132. E. B. t. \'^4. 



Har. W'l'.'iie unciilti\ uted places; as near the Monastery of Beaulieu 

 kt Inverness, and under the west side of Salis])ury Craigs, and at 

 Roslin, Dr. Parsons. Old walls of Mugdoch Castle, Glasgow, Hopk. 

 Arnistun woods^, and woods at Culross, ICdinb., Maa^h. J'l. June. 

 ^. 



C)no to one foot and a half higli. Fl. pale yellow. Nutx whitisli brown, 

 highly polished, seldom more than 2 or .''. ripening in each cal. 



2. L. arvp/ise (Corn Giumweli), stem erect branched, leaves 

 lanceolate acute hairv. cal. a little shorter than the cor., its 

 .seianents patent when containing the ripe rugose nuts. 

 Lighlf. p. 133. E. B. t. 123. 



Hau. Corn-lields, not uncommon, J)?-. iV/r.«oHs. Occasionally about 

 Glasg. Fields about Bogles hole, frequent, Hopk. fl. Mav, June. 



Corolla white. Cal. segm.ents thrice as long as the fruit. 



3. L. marithinan [beu-skle Groyirwelt), glabrous, stem procum- 

 bent branched, leaves ovate obtuse fleshy glaucous. Lehm. 

 ylsperif. p. 291. Pnlmoiiaria rnarlL, Lighlf. p. 134. /. 7. 

 E. B. t. 3(iS. 



Hap.. On the sea-coast, not uncommon among loose stones. Coast 

 of Fife, near St. Andrews, Isle of Bute, Arran, &c., Lighlf. Most 

 abundant on tlie shores of uSutherland, Caithness and Orkney. Fl. 

 July, .\ug. "2/ . 



iU habit this plant is sui generis ; but in character it accords certainly 

 better with- lArhosperDium than with Pulmonarla, where it has 

 hitherto been placed. Lower leaves on footstalks and acute; upper 

 ones ses.^ilc : all ver\- minutely tubercled, though appearing smooth. 

 Fiou-ers somewliat racemed, beautiful purplish blue : tube short. 

 Cal. not prismatic. Nuls sm.ooth. ^Vhole plant glaucous, turning- 

 almost black in drying. 



3. ANCMUSA. 



1. A. scmpcrvireus {evergreen /llkanel), leaves ovate nearly en- 

 tire lower ones upon long footstalks, peduncles axillary, flower* 

 subcapitate accompanied bv two leaves. LiglltJ. p. 133. 

 E.B.I. 45. 



Has. Glen of Dunglass, Dr. Parsons. Deanbank, near the village 

 of the water .of Leith ; Road-sides between Crossgates and Keltic, 

 Kinross -shire, Maiigh. Banks of the Clyde above Hamilton ; near 

 Chatelherault and Castlemilk, Glasg. Hopk. Craig-Millar Castle, 

 Mr. Arnott. Fl. May, Jun^. "2/ . 



The flov.ers are of a beautiful blue, and the shape '<)/ the corolla is, as 

 Sir James Smit]\ observes, rather salver-vshaped tlian infundibuli- 

 form, and thus with dilnculfv distingui'-hed from M)/osotis. Daily 



