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bosses bearing tufts of hair ; limb scarcely oblique, slightly spreading, 

 5-lobed. Stamens equal, included in or exserted beyond the corolla 

 tube. Style undivided. Xucules smooth, hard, ovate-ovoid, Avithout a 

 tumid ring at the base, inserted upon the flat receptacle by a plain 

 surface which has a central tubercle. 



Soft hispid or pilose herbs with succulent stems, and leaves often 

 blotched or spotted with white. Flowers in teruiinal sub-cor^onbose 

 scorpioid racemes ; corolla red, changing to purplish-blue. 



Tlie name of this genus of plants is derived from tlie Latin word Puhi?o, tlie lun"-, 

 because of its alleged power in lung affections. 



SPECIES I.-PULMONARIA ANGUSTIFOLIA. Linn. Wahl. 



Plate MXCVII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tub. MCCCXIX. Figs. 1 and 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Essicc. No. 1277. 



P. azurea, Besser; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 579. Eeic7i.jil. I. c. p. 57. 

 A. D. C. in D. G. Prod. Vol. X. p. 93. 



Radical leaves elliptical, all gradually attenuated towards the base, 

 and passing imperceptibly into the broadly winged petiole, gradually 

 acuminated towards the apex, acute, immaculate, or marked on the 

 upper surface with small blotches and specks of greenish-white (rarely 

 with larger confluent blotches) ; lower stem leaves subsessile, strap- 

 shaped-oblanceolate, the upper ones lanceolate or strapshaped-lanceo- 

 late, more or less distinctly semi-amplexicaul, not decurrent. Corolla 

 tube glabrous within below the circle of hairs in the throat. Plant 

 rather softly pubescent, none of the hairs glandular nor vulnerant. 



In woods, copses, and on hedge-banks, on clay soil. Rare. Plentiful 

 about Ryde, Isle of Wight, but rare west of the Medina, and not 

 known to occur except near New|5ort and Cowes. On mainland 

 Hants, according to Dr. Bromfield, it appears to be confined to the 

 New Forest district, where it is plentiful about Lymingtou and 

 Boldre. The Rev. AV. W. Newbould informs me that he has seen it 

 extending along the railway banks into Dorsetshire. 



England. Perennial. Sprmg. Early Summer, 



Rootstock thick, with fleshy fuscous-brown root-fibres. Stems 

 erect, 6 to 18 inches high, brittle, clothed with spreading hairs seated 

 on minute tubercular papillae. Leaves of the barren tufts or rosettes 

 small during the time of flowering, but increasing in size in autumn 

 until they are 6 to 10 inches long, variable hi breadth, but always 

 gradually attenuated towards the base ; lower stem leaves subpetio- 

 late, the upper ones quite sessile, broader and shorter than the others, 



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