<2. -~ “ORD. XVHI. Asperifotie. 
ANCHUSA TINCTORIA. DIERS BUGLOSS, or ALKANET. 
SYNONYMA,.-Anchusa. Pharm. £dinh. Anchusa: puniceis 
fioribus... Bauh: Pin p: 255. Anchusa Monspeliana. ~ J. Bauh. 
Hist. vol. iii. p. 683.2 RaiicHist. p. 496 Anehusa -Alcibiadion. 
Gerard. Emac. p. 800. Anchusa minor ee Park. Theat. 
= 517. Alkanna.-- Pharm. Suic. Wert. &e. gone: 
Class Penexadiis Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 182. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. infundibulif. fauce clausa fornicibus. Sem. basi 
insculpta. 
Sp. Ch. A tomentosa, fol. borides obtusis, stamin. corolla 
brevioribus. 
THE Toot is eebaiied: long; round; —- and Le of a 
dark ‘purplish red colour: the s i | at 
branched, and rises about two feet] in. height : the leaves are long, 
lance-shaped, obtuse, hairy, and without. footstalks: the flowers 
wary from a purplish to reddish colour, and terminate the branches 
in close clusters: the calyx is divided into five oblong erect rough 
persistent segments: the corolla is monopetalous, and funnel- 
shaped, consisting of a cylindrical tube, equal in length to the 
calyx, divided at the limb into five blunt teeth, and closed at the 
faux or centre by five small prominent scaly leafits: the five fila- 
ments are short, included in the tube of the corolla, and furnished 
with simple anther: the germens are four: the style is filiform, 
about the length of the stamina, and supplied with an obtuse 
notched stigma: the seeds are four, of an irregular shape, and 
losgee within the ale. It flowers from June till October. 
gh, hairy, , 
