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CYNOGLOSSUM glochidiatum. 



Burry Houndstongue. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Boraginace^e. 



CYNOGLOSSUM. Botanical Register, 1839. fol. 36. 



C. glochidiatum; (Wall. cat. no. 922.) pilosum, divaricatoramosum, foliis 

 oblongis acuminatis basi angustatis sessilibus, racemis elongatis tenui- 

 bus, floribus subsessilibus, nucibus parvis marginatis aculeis brevibus 

 uniserialibus paucisque sparsis. Bentham in Boyle's Illustr. p. 306. 



Herba biennis, canescens, diffusa, ramis intertextis. Folia superiora 

 sessilia. Racemi aphylli. Flores parvi, Icete ccerulei. Glochides nucum mar- 

 ginales, 1-3 seriates. 



Among the many forms of vegetation which give the 

 aspect of Europe to the mountains of India, are several species 

 of Cynoglossum, which remind the traveller of the Forget- 

 me-Not of his western home. Of these one of the prettiest 

 when gathered is the species now figured, whose hright and 

 joyous looking flowers are exceedingly gay; unfortunately 

 however the plant itself is a straggling dull green entangled 

 herb, so that it can only be grown in the borders of a shrub- 

 bery, or in some situation where the herbage may not offend 

 the eye. Like all its order, the flowers will continue to open 

 for a long time in a glass of water. 



Fig. 1 . represents a nut with the barbed bristles, called by 

 botanists glochides, whence the name of the species. 



It is a hardy biennial, growing about one and a half or 

 two feet high in any good soil, and flowering from July until 

 destroyed by the effects of winter. 



The seeds should be sown about the end of May or begin- 

 ning of June, in the open border, where they may remain 

 without protection, if in rather a dry situation ; they suffer 

 more from wet than from cold. 



