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solitary, stalked. Cal. segments 3-ficl. Petals white, oblong, dif- 

 fering much in habit from Linuni, where DecandoUe still places it. 



V. PENTANDRIA. 



I. MONOGYNIA. 



* Flowers monopetalous, inferior, with 4 {appare7itly) naked seeds. 

 Aspebifoli/e\ 



10. EcHiUM. Cor. irregular, its orifice open and naked. Stig- 

 ma bipartite. 



5. PuLMo^■ARlA. Cal. prismatic, 5- cleft. Cor. infundibuli- 

 form, its orifice naked. 



2. LiTHosPERMUM. Cal. 5-partite. Cor. infundibuliform, its 

 orifice naked. 



6. Symphytum. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. ventricose, its orifice 

 closed with connivent subulate scales. 



7. BoRAGo. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. rotate, liaving at its orifice 

 5 obtuse emarginate teeth. 



9. Lycopsis. Cal. 5 -cleft. Cor. infundibuliform, with an in- 

 curved tube, its orifice closed with convex connivent scales. 



8. AsPERUGo. Cal. 5-cleft, unequal, with alternate smaller 

 teeth. Cor. (short) infundibuliform, its orifice closed with 

 convex connivent scales. Seeds (or Nuis) covered with the 

 conduplicate and compressed cal. 



4, Cynoglossum. CaZ. 5-eleft. Cor. (short) infundibuliform, 

 its orifice closed with convex connivent scales. Seeds (or 

 Ntils) depressed, fixed to the style by their inner margin. 



3. Anchusa. Cal. 5-cleft, or 5-partite. Cor. infundibuli- 

 form, its orifice closed with convex connivent scales. Seeds 

 (or Nuts) hollowed out at the base. 



1. Myosotis. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. hypocrateriform, the seg- 

 ments very obtuse, its orifice closed with short connivent 

 scales. 



« The following arrangement of tlie Genera of the Scotch AsperifoUcs is 

 atter one by Lehmann in his Plant. Fam. Aa-per/.—They have all 

 Four distinct I -celled Niits. 

 A. Nuts fixed to the bottom of the Cal 

 * Nuts imperforate at the base. 

 t Orifice of the Cor. naked. 

 Pulmonaria, b. Lithospermuin, 2. Echium, 10. 

 ft Orifice of the Cor. closed with scales. 

 Myosotis, 1. Boiago, 7. 

 ** Nuts perforated at the base {orifice of the Cor. closed with scales). 

 u XT ^ , A"<=^»s^» 3. Lycopsis, 9. Symphytum, 6. 

 B. ^uts fixed to a central column {imperforate at the base, orifice of the Cor. 

 closed ivith scales). 

 Asterugo, 8. Cynoglossum, 4. 



