££4 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Cy noglossum . 



Whole plant downy > and soft to the touch. Leaves strap- 

 spear-shaped. Calyx segments oblong-egg-shaped, not sharp. 

 Bloss, a marone or mulberry colour. Valves fringed. 

 r Great Houndstongue . Road sides and amongst rubbish, com- 

 mon. [Lilleshall Abbey, Shropsh.J P. June.* 



sylvatlcum. C. Stamens shorter than the blossom: leaves spear-shaped, 



harsh, flat, distant, nearly sitting. [Jacquin.] 



Col. ecphr. 175-ParL 512. 5. 



Leaves dark green, rough, not cottony. Flowers dull blue, 

 or reddish, smaller than in the preceding, neither has the plant 

 the strong scent nor the hoariness of that. 



C. ojficin. y Linn. [Shady lanes about Worcester. Stokes. 

 'Near the 3d mile stone from Worcester on the road to Per- 



shore. Nash.] 



B. May. 



n^ PULMONA'IUA. Bloss. funnel-shaped ; mouth 



open : calyx tubular 





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Kniph. 1--F/. dan. 483-G^r. 662. Q-Clus.ii. VfOA-Ger.em. 

 808. 2-/7. ox. xi. 29- row 2. 5-ParL par. 251. 2. 



Very nearly allied to the P. officinalis, differing only in the 

 narrowness of its leaves. Linn. Bloss. red at first, expanding* 

 ^ soon changing to blue. All the leaves spear-shaped. 



Bugloss-Covjslips. Long. leaved Sage of Jerusalem. NarotV- 



leaved Langnvort. ? € Mr. Goodyer found it in a wood by Hol- 

 bury House in the New Forest, Hampshire.' • Johnson in Gtr< 

 em. p. 80y.— R. Syn. 226*.— The authority of Mr. Goodyer is 

 cited also by Parkinson, but who supposes him to have found the 

 P. officinalis. Mr. Robson informs me that he had a specimen 

 sent him in the year 1783, by the late Mr. Waring, of Lees- 

 crood, Flintsh. who found it growing wild on the ruins of the 

 Monastery Maes Glas, but Mr. Griffith says Mr. Waring's spe- 

 cimen proves to be the Anchusa sempervirens. 



offieina'lis. P. Root-leaves egg-heart-shaped; rough; upper leaves egg- 

 shaped, acute. £. hot. 



Both the root and leaves have been suspected to possess narcotic pro- 

 perties, but some will not admit the fact. It is discarded from the present 

 practice; but Mr. Ray says that Dr. Hulse used a decoction of . the roots 

 inwardly, and cataplasms of them outwardly in strumous and scrophulous 

 rases. Its scent is very disagreeable, and very much resembles that of 

 mice. Mr. Hill. Goat's eat it. Cows, horses, sheep, and swine refuse it. 

 It furnishes food to the Pbalana Domina. 



