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blue, large, tube equalling the calyx in length, radical 
leaves forming a dense rosette; Pyrenees. 
g. ERITRICHIUM, Schrad. 
Flowers regular, small, blue, in few-flowered cymes ; 
corolla saucer-shaped, the throat closed by five small 
scales between the stamens; fruit with a membranous 
margin. 
E. nanum, Schrad. (¢ergloviense, Kern.) ; stem I-2 in., 
woolly, flowers I-5, crowded into small cymes, resem- 
bling those of MWyosotis palustris, leaves densely czspi- 
tose, elliptical, woolly; alpine rocks, very high, not 
uncommon. 
10. CYNOGLOSSUM, Tourn. 
Flowers small, usually blue-purple, in bifurcate cymes, 
regular; corolla funnel-shaped, throat closed by pro- 
minent scales; nutlets 4, covered with hooked or barbed 
bristles. Not alpine. 
C. officinale, L., Hound’s-Tongue; leaves hoary with 
soft hairs; waste places, frequent. C. montanum, Lam. 
(germanicum, Jacq.); flowers blue, leaves thinner, not so 
hairy ; mountain woods. 
II. ECHINOSPERMUM, Swartz. 
Flowers regular, small, blue; corolla saucer-shaped, 
closed at the throat by five small scales; nutlets 4, tri- 
quetrous, bordered by several rows of barbed bristles. 
E. Lappula, Lehm.; stem branched in the upper part, 
fruit-stalks erect, flowers in small extra-axillary clus- 
ters; waste places and walls; Switzerland, Pyrenees. J. 
