VIPER'S BUGLOSS 



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The flowers arc visited Ijy the honey bee, Diptera and llymeiiop 

 tera, Lepidoptera, and Coleoptera. In addition to the larye complete 

 flowers there are smaller ones. 



The nutlets are dispersed, after the carpels have split up into 

 four, just round the parent plant, and so help to form clum[)s. 



Vipek's Bl'CLoss (Echiiiiii -.<i</i;an\ L.) 



Viper's Bugloss is a lime-lovini^' plant and grows largely on lime 

 soil, or is a sand plant and found on sand soil. 



One stage of a fungus, Pucciiiia ruhigo-vera, grows on \'iper's 

 Bugloss. It is miR;h frequented by beetles, such as Meligethes iiicaiiits, 

 M. serripcs, Jll. murimis, M. exilis, Longitarsus aiic/niscr, L. nastiirtiiy 

 L. exoleius, Coccinclla v/ntabi/is, Ccittoryitchns cchii\ by se\'eral Lepi- 

 doptera, Odontia denialis, Anescychia bipnnctclla, Depressaria rot 2111- 



