88 ENGLISH ^ BOTANY. 



1-seeded cocca, usually called nucules^ rarely drupaceous and with 2 or 

 4 stones. Embryo straight, without albumen, or curved when the 

 latter is present; albumen none, or in small quantity and fleshy. 



Tribe I.— ANCHUSE^ (mcluding Litliospermeaj). 



Nucules 4 (or fewer by abortion), all free, not depressed, inserted 

 by their base upon a flat torus. 



GENUS /.— E O H I U M. Toumef. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla irregular, funnelshaped, subbilabiate ; 

 throat enlarged, open, without scales or hairs ; limb oblique, of 5 erect 

 or slightly spreading segments. Stamens unequal, often exserted. 

 Style 2-cleft. Nucules winnkled, ovate-ovoid, Avithout a tumid ring 

 at the base, mserted upon the flat receptacle by a plam surface. 



Bristly hispid, and often tuberculate herbs or undcrshrubs, with 

 flowers in scorpioid spikes or racemes generally arranged in panicles. 

 Corolla purple, red, or red changmg to blue, varying to flesh colour or 

 white. 



Tho derivation of the name of this genus is from £X'£ (ecliis), a viper ; its seeds 

 when ripe being thought to resemble the head of this reptile. 



SPECIES I.— E CHIUM VULGAR E. Lhm. 



Plate MXCV. 



S^ich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIH. Tab. MCCXCVIII. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1534. 



Stem herbaceous, densely hispid, and thinly clothed vsdth long stifi" 

 bristly spreading hairs seated on small tubercles. Radical leaves 

 strapshaped-oblanceolate or strapshaped-oblong, gradually attenuated 

 at the base into indistinct petioles, the midrib very strong, the two 

 lateral ribs and the side veins scarcely perceptible ; lower stem leaves 

 subsessile, strapshapecl, attenuated towards the base ; upper ones sessile, 

 strapshaped, attentiatcd towards the apex, rounded but not at all 

 amplcxicaul at the base ; all finely and thinly hispid with mimtte hairs, 

 intermixed with long stout bristly hairs seated on minute unequal 

 tubercles. Flowers all bracteate, in scorpioid spikes, which arc 

 arranged in a slender panicle ; spikes at first very dense and short, 

 afterwards elongating and erect-ascending ; upper spikes sessile. 

 Corolla tube slightly and gradually enlarged upwards, shorter than the 

 calyx-teeth. Stamens much exserted. 



