CLASS V. ORDER I. 1 LYCOPSIS. 229 



have been an ingredient with some othei herbs in wine, water, lemon, 

 and sugar, forming the lamed old English beverage, known by the 

 name ol' vool tankard, though the old adage of 



" I Borage always bring courage" — 

 would lead to a contrary belief; and old Gerarde, quoting Dodonaeus, 

 says " Those of our times do use the floures in sallads, to exhilarate 

 and make the miude glad. There be also many things made of them, 

 used for the comfort of the heart, to drive away sorrow, and increase 

 the joy of the minde." 



We are not told what was the composition of the "many things" of 

 which these flowers formed a part ; but surely there was something of 

 a very different nature to the flowers, to produce the exhilarating effects 

 that are here spoken of : for we do not now find that it possesses any 

 such properties. The whole plant is viscid and mucilaginous, with 

 an unpleasant odour, something like that of a cucumber. 



GENUS VI. LYCOP'SIS.— Linn. Bugloss- 



Nat. Ord. Boragin'e^. De Cand. 



Gen. Char. Cali/x five-cleft. Corolla funnel-shaped, the /mi of five 



lobes, the tube curved, its orifice closed with five convex connivent 



scales. — Name from \vx.oc, a tvolf ; and o^].iJ, a face or aspect; so 



called from its roughness, and being the colour of a wolf, or from 



the circumstance of the corolla having some fancied resemblance 



to a grinning mouth, or the head of a wolf. 



1. L. arven'sis, Linn. (Fig. 298.) small Bugloss. Stem erect, 



branched, leaves lanceolate, repando-dentate, very hispid, the lower on 



footstalks, tube of the corolla curved in the middle. 



English Botany, t. 938.— English Flora, vol. i. p. 268.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 100.— Lindley, Synopsis, p. 165. 



Root small, tapering. The whole plant very rough, with spreading 

 hairs and bristles. Stem erect, branched, somewhat angular, from one 

 to two feet high. Leaves numerous, alternate lanceolate, the lower 

 ones tapering at the base into a footstalk of variable length, the upper 

 sessile, embracing the stem, the margin irregularly waved and toothed, 

 the bristles arise from the centre of a callous tubercle. Lnjlorescence 

 a leafy raceme. Floivcrs on short peduncles. Calyx of five narrow 

 lanceolate segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, its limb bright blue, 

 spreading, of five somewhat irregular rounded spreading segments, the 

 tube longer than the calyx, white, curved in the middle, its orifice 

 closed with five white concave obtuse hairy scales. Stamens about the 

 middle of the tube, filaments short. The Anther ovate. Pistil about 

 half as long as the tube. Stigma obtuse notched. Fruit four, ovate. 



