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scales. The lul)e is curved aiitl lunycr than the liiiih. I'hc slainens 

 are incliuleil, small, and placed at the junction ol limb and tube, with 

 small anthers. The style is as lony' as the stamens, the stigma lobed 

 and lihint. The lldwers are visited and ixilJinated chiclly l)y bees, and 

 parti) by Lepidoptera, cVC, Hcspcna. 1 he nutlets are dispersed when 

 ripe around the parent plant. 



Field Ru^loss is a sand plant and addicted to a .sand soil. 



i\. microhnimis, Piiccinia dispcrsa, attacks the lea\'es. 



Lvcopsis, Dio.scorides, is from the (ireek Ivcos, wolf, ops, ops/s, face, 

 because the llowers were supposed to resemble a wolf's face; and the 

 second Latin name indicates its preference for arable land. 



The only name is Bugloss. 



The Field Bugloss was held to be a remedy for carbuncle or the 

 plague. 



RSSKNTI.M, Sl'KCU IC CllARACTl^RS : 



214. Lycopsis arvcnsis, L. — .Stem erect, branched above, hirsute, 

 radical leaves obovate, stem-leaves linear-ovate, sinuous, hispid, llowers 

 blue, in cymes, subsessile. 



Corn Gromwell (Lithospermum arvense, L.) 



Corn Ciromwell is found in Europe, N. Africa, Siberia, W. Asia, 

 as far as N.W. India, in the North Temperate Zone, and has been 

 introduced into the United States. It is unknown in any early de- 

 posits. In Cireat Britain this plant does not grow in Glamorgan, 

 Brecon, Radnor, Cardigan, in South Wales, Montgomery, Merioneth, 

 the Isle of Man, Dumfries, Wigtown, Kirkcudbright, Peebles, Selkirk, 

 S. Perth, the whole of West Highlands except Mid t'budes, W. Ro.ss, 

 Sutherland, Caithness, Orkneys, Shetlands, but elsewhere from Ross 

 to the south coast. It is native in Ireland. 



Corn Gromwell is one of the plants which seldom, if ever, subsist 

 anywhere else except in cultivated fields of one description or another, 

 being found with other plants, such as Gold of Pleasure, Corn Cockle, 

 Flax, &c., which are only found in cornfields or in waste places, when 

 they may reasonably be supposed to have .sprung from a like origin. 



The first Latin name (from Greek) refers to the hard stony 

 character of the nuts or fruit. Corn Gromwell is a .slender-stemmed 

 plant, erect, branched at the base, with narrowly clliiitical, linear, 

 tapering, hairy leaves, the radical leaves stalked, the stem -leaves 

 stalkle.ss, clasping, hairy, and the hairs are bulbous both sirles. 



The flowers are small, crcam\-\vhite, growing in short cvmes, 



