ctASS V. ORDER I.] IITHOSPERMUM. 225 



English Botany, t. 117. — English Flora, vol. i. p. 256. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 99. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 164. 



Root woody, branched, and tufted. Stems several, round, rough, 

 with spreading hairs, leafy, the barren stems simple, spreading on the 

 surface of the ground, others erect, from one to one and a half feet 

 high, divided into two or three branches at the extremity. Leaves 

 numerous, alternate, lanceolate, acute, tapering at tlie base, sessile, 

 single ribbed, paler beneath, rough, with close pressed hairs. 

 Inflorescence terminal, leafy, erect, spikes. Flowers on short 

 footstalks. Calyx of five linear segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 much larger than either of the above, hairy externally, its tube pink, 

 longer than the calyx, the limb fine purplish blue, spreading, 

 of five obtuse lobes, each having at its base a pink swelling, slightly 

 downy. Stamens about the mouth of the tube. Anthers oval, on 

 short filaments. Pistil as long as the tube. Stigma bifid. Fruit 

 about four, ovate, hard, white polished. Niits mostly a little rugged. 



Habitat. — Thickets, in a chalky soil ; rare ; North Side of Denbigh, 

 in Wales; near Taunton, Somersetshire; Mary Church, Devonshire; 

 Darenthwood and Greenhithe, Kent ; Carsewell Bay, Glamorganshire. 



Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



This is the most beautiful species of the genus, readily distinguished 

 by its flowers, which are larger than the above, at first of a beautiful 

 rose coloui', becoming a fine purplish blue, and sometimes purple. It 

 is of frequent occurrence on the continent, more especially in Portu- 

 gal, Spain, and Italy, where few flowers surpass it in the richness of 

 their colour. 



4. L. mariti mum, Lehn. (Fig. 294.) Sea-side Gromwell. Glaucous, 

 stems procumbent branched, leaves ovate, on broad footstalks, rough, 

 with callous points, fleshy. Nuts smooth. 



English Botany, t. 36S. — Pulmonaria maritima.— English Flora, 

 vol. i.p. 257. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 99. — Lindley, Synopsis, 

 p. 164. 



Root tapering. Whole plant of a beautiful glaucous hue, which 

 becomes black with drying. Stems several from the same root, much 

 branched, and leafy, procumbent, and spreading from one to two feet 

 long. Leares alternate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, with a mid-rib, and 

 frequently several lateral ones waved, the lower on broad footstalks, the 

 upper nearly sessile, fleshy, of a beautiful pale glaucous hue, sprinkled 

 over with minute callous points, white, becoming more apparent after 

 drying; when examined by a lens they appear like glistening stars, 

 radiating from a brilliant point in the centre, destitute of hairs, as 

 indeed is the whole plant; thus widely diff'ering from the above species. 

 Infiorescence in loose terminal leafy racemes, often clustered at the 

 extremity of the main stem. Flowers on rather long naked pedicles. 

 Calyx in five broadly lanceolate segments, with a mid-rib. Corolla 



