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PULMONARIA OFFICINALIS. ORD, XVIII. Asperifolie. 303 
ple: the calyx is a prism of five sides, rough, and divided at the 
mouth into five short pointed segments: the corolla is funnel-— 
shaped, consisting of a cylindrical tube, open at the mouth, and a 
spreading limb, cut at the margin into five obtuse segments: the 
five filaments are very short, placed at the mouth of the tube, and 
furnished with simple yellow anthere: the germen is quadrifid, 
supporting a tapering style of the length of the calyx, and crown- 
ed with a blunt notched stigma: the seeds are four, roundish, and 
lodged at the base of the calyx. : 
This plant is rarely found to grow wild in England, but is very 
commonly cultivated in gardens, where its feaves become broader, 
and approach more to a cordate shape, as appears by the detached 
leaves represented in the plate. The figure itself, however, ex- 
hibits a specimen of the spontaneous growth of this country. 
The leaves, which are the part medicinally used, have no pecu- 
liar smell, but in their recent state manifest a slightly astringent 
and mucilaginous taste ; hence it seems not wholly without founda- 
tion, that they have been supposed to be demulcent and pectoral. 
They have been recommended in hemoptoés, tickling coughs, 
and catarrhal defluctions upon the lungs. The name Pulmonaria, 
however, seems to have arisen rather from the speckled appearance 
of these leaves, resembling that of the lungs, than from any, in- 
trinsic quality which sapceints discovered to be useful in pulmo- 
nary complaints. 
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LITHOSPERMUM OFFICINALE. COMMON GROMWELL. 
SYNONYMA. Lithospermum, seu Milium Solis. Pharm. Vide 
Geoffroy. Tract. de M. M. vol. 8. p. 742. Dale. Pharmacol. 139. 
Alston. M. M. vol. ii. p. 361. Lewis, M. M. 399. Edinb. New 
Dispens. 223. Murray, App. Med. vol. ti. p. 98. Ray, Synop. 
228.  Lithospermum-majus.erectum. Bauh. Pin. 258. L. 
