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PULMONARIA (from pulmo, pulmonis, a lung ; 
the spotted leaves were supposed to resemble diseased 
lungs, and hence, by the “ doctrine of signatures,” a sup- 
posed efficacy in the disease was ascribed to the plants). 
Lungwort. ORD. Boraginee. A genus comprising four 
species of hardy, perennial herbs, natives of Europe, and 
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Fic. 323. UPPER PORTION OF PLANT OF PULMONARIA 
OFFICINALIS. 
mostly Western Asia. Flowers blue or rose-purple, 
pedicellate, disposed in terminal, bifid cymes; lower ones, 
or almost all, bracteate; calyx five-fid; corolla funnel- 
shaped, with a cylindrical tube and five imbricated, 
broad, obtuse, spreading lobes. Nutlets four, broad, 
erect. Leaves generally spotted with white; radical ones 
usually ample, petiolate; cauline ones few, alternate. 
The species are of easy culture in almost any mode- 
rately good garden soil. Propagated by dividing the 
clumps in early spring. Several species formerly in- 
cluded here are now referred to Mertensia (which see). 
ARIA SACCHARATA, showing Habit and 
detached Inflorescence. 
P. : olia (narrow-leaved).* Blue Cowslip. f. at first 
ink, but ultimately — blue; racemes twin, capitate. Spring. 
pues mncariese or lanceolate, clothed with soft, down-like 
— . lft. Europe (Britain). (Sy. En. B. 1097.) 
+ mollis (soft). . blue; calyx rather longer than the tube of 
the corolla. Roel and May. 7 l., radical ones elliptic-lanceolate 
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Pulmonaria—continued. ` 
or lanceolate, decurrent into the broadly-winged petiole ; cauline 
ones ovate-lanceolate, semi-amplexieaul. A. Yin. Europe, Siberia, 
&c., 1805, See Fig. 322, (B. M. 2422.) 
P. officinalis (officinal). Sage of Bethlehem, &c. fl. red at first, 
hen violet, terminal. Spring. J. scabrous, radical ones ovate- 
cordate, cauline ones ovate-oblong, sessile, spotted with white. 
h. lft. Europe, &c. (Britain). See Fig. 323. (Sy. En. B. 1098.) 
There is a white-flowered form of this species. 
P. saccharata (sugared).* jl. pink. June. Z, radical ones oval, 
acuminate at both ends, decurrent at base into the short petioles ; 
ae Ses sessile, ovate-oblong. h. lft. Europe, 7. See 
g. * 
PULSATILLA. See Anemone Pulsatilla. 
PULTENZEA (probably named after Dr. Richard 
Pulteney, 1730-1801, author of “ Historical and Bio- 
graphical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England, 
from its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnwan 
System,” and other works of merit). Including 
Euchilus and Spadostyles. Orv. Leguminose. A genus 
comprising seventy-five species of ornamental, green- 
house, evergreen shrubs, confined to Australia, Flowers 
yellow, orange, or mixed with purple, axillary and 
solitary, or crowded in terminal heads, and surrounded 
within the floral leaves by imbricated, scarious, brown 
bracts or enlarged stipules without any lamina; two 
upper lobes of calyx more or less united into an upper 
lip; petals on rather long claws; standard nearly orbi- 
cular ;. wings oblong; keel incurved; stamens free. Pods — 
ovate, flat or turgid, two-valved. Leaves opposite or | 
rarely ternately whorled, simple, sometimes flat or with 
revolute margins, sometimes concave or with incurved | 
margins; stipules linear-lanceolate or setaceous, brown — 
and scarious. Pultengwas succeed best in fibrous peat, to 
which about one-seventh part of silver sand should be 
added. They require, like many other hard-wooded 
Australian plants, firm potting, and very careful water- 
ing with soft water. Propagated by imported seeds ; 
and from cuttings, made of the points of shoots when 
about three parts matured. The latter should be in- 
serted in very sandy peat, covered with a bell glass, 
placed in an intermediate temperature, and kept well 
shaded. In the following species, the flowers are yellow, 
except where otherwise stated. : 
P. argentea (silvery). A synonym of P. dentata. 
P. cordata (heart-shaped). A synonym of P. juniperina lati- 
Jolia. 
P. daphnoides (Daphne-like). fl. shortly pedicellate, in dense, 
terminal, —— om standard nearly twice as long as the 
calyx. June and July, /. cuneate-oblong, flat — nany 
lin. long, ending in a pungent mucrone. h. bit. to 3ft. 1 
(A. BE 98; B. M. 1394; L. B. C. 1143.) 
K obcordata (obcordate). l. shorter and broader, more 
—— with a Sse prominent point. (A. B. R. 574, under 
name of P. obcordata.) ; 
. dentata (toothed). fi. in dense, terminal heads, sessile within 
gg a. yx silky-villous, half as long as the stan- 
dard. June. 1. linear; linear-oblong, or narrow-lanceolate, usually 
narrow at both ends, }in, to żin. long, darker-coloured or silvery 
beneath. A. 2ft. 1820. SYN. P. argentea. 
, euchila (beautiful-lipped). fl, axillary, on pedicels jin. long ; 
gree half * long again as tie calyx. May. l linear-cuneate, 
obtuse, 4in. to fin. long, flat or slightly concave, dark or silvery 
beneath. h. 1ft. 1824. SYN. Spadostyles Sieberi. 
flexilis (bending). solitary in the upper axils, shortly 
—— — tliy twice as long as the calyx. May. 
, linear or linear-oblong, often slightly cuneate, obtuse or mucro- 
nate, 4in. to lin. long, flat or concave, darker-coloured beneath. 
h. 14ft. 1801. (B. R. 1694.) — 
perina (Juniper-like). in the uppermost axils, usuall 
— three —— the ends of the smaller branches, wit! 
occasionally one or two leafless, stipular bracts; standard full 
twice as long as the calyx. June. l. linear or lanceolate, spread- 
ing, rigid and pungent-pointed, less than jin. long, concave. or 
with involute margins. A. 14ft. 1824. Plant prickly. 
, j. latifolia (broad-leaved). l. lanceolate, rounded or some- 
——— piira at base, — into a rigid, pungent point. 
1832. SYN. P. cordata (B. M. ). 
P. mucronata (pointed), A synonym of P. poli/olia. 
obcordata (obcordate).* ji. in the upper axils, or forming 
P: short, ais leafy head; standard half as long again as 
the pubescent calyx. April. l. opposite, in whorls of or 
