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PULxMONARIA DAVURICA. 



Daurian Lungwort. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



Class 5. Order 1. 



Pclmoxakia: so named from its being supposed to be a good 

 remedy in disorders of the lungs (pulmoiies) ; or, according to 

 others, from the spots on the leaves resembling those on some dis- 

 eased lungs. 



Linn. gen. n. 184, 



GENERIC character. 



Cal. Perianth one-leaved, five-toothed, prismatic, pentagonal, perma- 

 nent. Cor. one-petaled, funnel-form ; tube cylindrical, the length 

 of the calyx3 borderhalf-five-cleft, blunt, upright, spreading. Throat 

 pervious. Stam. Filaments five, in the throat, very short. Anthers 

 erect, converging. Fist. Germs four. Style filiform, shorter than 

 the calyx. Stigma blunt, emarginate. Per. none. Calyx un- 

 changed, fostering the seeds at bottom. Seeds four, roundish, 

 blunt. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Stem-leaves oblong, lanceolate, embracing. Root-leaves elliptic. 



Root perennial. Stem one foot in height, erect, branched 

 towards the top. Radical leaves ovate, on long footstalks, 

 with two or three nerves going from each side the midrib to- 

 wards the point. Cauline leaves narrow, lanceolate, entire, 



