oe SS SORD, XVII. Asperifolic. 
ANCHUSA OFFICINALIS. OFFICINAL BUGLOSS, 
Or ALKANET, 
SYNONYMA. Buglossum. Pharm. Park. Parad. 249. Geoff. 
“9. tii. 226. Dale. 136. Alston. vol. ii. 91. Lewis. 167. Bergius. 
79. Murray. vol. 2. 98. New Edinb. Dispens. 152. Buglossum 
angustifolium majus. Bauh. Pin. 256. Buglossa ae. Ger. 
Emace. 798. Flor. Dan. 8-572. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 182. 
Gen. Ch. Cor. infundibulif, fauce clausa fornicibus. Sem. basi 
insculpta. 
Sp. Ch. A. folits lanceolatis strigosis, spicis secundis imbuceth, 
calycibus quinquepartitis. Hort. Kew 
ROOT perennial, large, tapering. Stem about two feet high, 
erect, angular, strong, rough, hairy, branched towards the top. 
_ Leaves altecrate. narrow, lanceolate, pointed, rough, hairy, edges 
eroded, and somewhat undulated. Flowers purple, produced in 
corymbi, both lateral and terminal. Calyx rough, cut into five 
acute erect segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube long, cylindrical: 
limb divided into five obtuse segments: mouth of the tube closed 
by five nectarious scales. Filaments five, short, placed in. the upper 
part of the tube, and furnished with simple brownish anthere. 
Germen quadrifid: style nearly as long as the tube, tapering, and 
terminated by an emarginated stigma. Seeds four, hollowed out 
at the base. The flowers appear in sneeenoy from June till 
October. 
eae native of the Continent of Europe, but not indigenous to 
this Island. _ Mr. P. Miller cultivated it here in 1748, and we now 
find it in most gardens where variety of herbaceous ornamental 
plants is an object ef attention, 
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