

PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Asperago. 227 



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Matth. 1186-Trajr. 237-G^r. 653. 2 and \-H. ox. xi. 





left 



1. 



Fruit-stalks terminating ; supporting several flowers. Came 

 originally from Aleppo ; but now found in many parts of Europe. 

 Bloss. blue, white, or flesh-coloured • Linn* Whole plant rough 

 with numerous white prickly hairs. Leave* egg-spear-shaped. 

 Bloss. segments spear-shaped ; the prominencies^ one rising from 

 the base of each segment, brownish half egg-shaped. Filaments 

 the portion above the insertion of the anthers cylindrical, dark 

 blue, that below the insertion thick, brown and glandular. An* 

 tiers black. 



Common Borage. Walls and amongst rubbish. [Banks of the 

 river near Tavistock. Mr. Knappe. On the summit of a high 

 rock at Llandrydno near Conway. Mr. Dickenson. ] 



P. June — Aug.* 



ASPERU'GO. Calyx, when in fruit, the sides flat, 



parallel, indented, 



A. Calyx when in fruit compressed. procum'bens 



£. hot. 667-Kniph. 3-Fl. dan. 552-H. ox. xi. 26. 13-Ger. 

 963-Dtd. 356-Ger. em. 1122. 2-Lob. obs. 466. 2~Garid. 

 9~J. B. iii. 600. 2, and 601. 2. 



Stem angular. Leaves mostly by threes, pointing upwards. 

 Woodward. Bloss. small, blue. 



Trailing Catchweed. In roads and amongst rubbish. [Church- 

 yard, Newmarket. Mr. Woodward.] A. April, May. 



LYCOFSIS. Bloss. tube crooked : mouth closed 



with scales : nuts 4, perforated. 



L. Leaves spear-shaped, rough with hair : Calyx while in arven'sis. 



flower upright. 



Curt. 336-Knipt>. 3-Fuchs. 269-Dod. 628. 2-Ger. em. 799. 



3-7. B. iii. 581-//. ox. xi. 26. 8-J?iv. num. 7. 2-fY. dan. 



435-Blackw. 234-Trag. 234. 



An extremely harsh, rough, and bristly plant. Stems thick, 

 cylindrical. Leaves sometimes nearly strap-shaped, sometimes 

 Nearly egg-shaped ; waved at the edge, and somewhat toothed. 

 C*ljx segments sometimes Spear-shaped. Bloss. sky blue. 



By the experiments of Mr. Marggraff, Mem, de Berlin, I747> P 7 2 > 

 it appears that the juice affords a true nitre,— It is now seldom used in- 

 wardly but as an ingredient in cool tankard* for summer drinking, though 

 the young and tender leaves are good in sallads, or as a pot-herb. It affords 



toourishmem to the Pbalana Gamma.— A horse eat it. Dr. Stokis. 



