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PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Lithospermum. 



Field Mouse -ear. Scorpion-grass. 





arvensis. Linn. Walls, dry pastures, gardens, 



Myosotis scorpioides, u 



and 



sandy 



places. 



A. May, June. 



LITHOSPER'MUM. BIoss. funnel-shaped, tube 



long, slender, open and without valves at the 

 mouth : col. with 5 divisions : nuts 4, very 

 hard, imperforated. 



officinale. L. Seeds smooth ; blossoms hardly longer than the cup ; 



leaves spear-shaped* 



' ' Fl. clan. 1034-5. hot. 134- 



14-J-Dod. 83. 1-Ger. em. 6(><). 2-Park. 432. l-H. ox 



Wood' 



■M, 



7 



\ 



Blossoms pale yellow. Seeds as hard as bone. Linn. 



GromllL Gray mi IL Common Gromwell. Dry gravelly soil* 



Woods, common. Mr. Woodward. P. May, June, 



arven'se. L. Seeds wrinkled ; blossoms hardly longer than the cups* 



Kniph. 10-*£. hot. 123-Ri<v. mon. 9* l-Fl. dan. 4o6- 

 Blackiv. 436-//. ox. xi. 28. 7~Ger. em. 6 10. 4-ParL 

 432. 6-Mattb. 917. 



Perfect seeds either 2, 3 or 4, but generally S, with one abor- 

 tive; and when there are 4 perfect ones which I found to be the 

 case in two instances, there were besides 2 abortive, and 6 divi- 

 sions in the calyx. Mr. Aikin. Roots crimson red. Bloss. white. 

 Seeds rather covered with hard tubercles than wrinkled. Calyx 

 segments after flowering 3 or 4- times as long as the seeds, but in 

 the preceding species not twice their length. 



Corn Cromwell. Bastard Alkanet. Bastard Gromlll. Sal fern 





Painting Root. Corn fields^ common. 



A. May, June.* 



I 



pur'puro- L. Seeds smooth; blossom much longer than the cup 



coeru'leum. 



Jacq. austr. 1-1-E. hot. UJ-Pet. 2.9- 6-C7«*. ii. tf>3. *- 

 Dad. 83. \-Lob. obs. 245. l-Ger. em. 6*0Q. 1-Park. 431 



-//.«*. xi. 31. 2-PM.76. 2-Ger. 486. l-J. B. & 



0*92. 1. 





* The girls in the North of Europe paint their faces with the juic e of 

 the root upon days of festivity. The bark of the root tinges wax and 01 

 of a beautiful red, similar to that which is obtained from the root of tn 

 foreign Alkanet that is kept in the shops. Sheep and goats eat it- Cow* 

 are not fond of it. Horses and swine refuse it. 





