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bent. Flowering stem erect. Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, very acute, 

 minutely pubescent on both sides. Inflorescence of 2 or 3 branches 

 from the a-pex of the stem, Avhich elongate much in fruit. Bracts 

 longer than the calyx. Pedicels much shorter than the calyx in 

 fruit. Corolla three times as long as the calyx. Xucules bony, white, 

 globular-ovoid, rounded at the apex, polished and shining, less than 

 one-third the length of the calyx segments. 



In woods and bushy places, on chalk and limestone. Rare, and very 

 local. It occurs about Mary Church, Devon ; near Bridgewater and 

 Tauuton, Somerset; Denbigh and Caswell Bay, Glamorgan; and in 

 Darenth Wood, near Greenhithe, Kent. The latter is the only station 

 in which I have myself collected it. There it grows near the middle 

 of the wood, about 150 yards to the left of the public path going from 

 Darenth to Stone, but only flowers the second j-ear after the copse 

 wood is cut. 



England. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock slender, woody, shortly creeping, producing archinf 

 barren shoots at length about 1 foot long ; the leaves on these pseudo- 

 distichous. Flowering stems erect, wiry, 1 to 2 feet high, with long 

 hairs springing from minute tubercles. Leaves 1-J- to 4 inches long, 

 the lower ones attenuated towards the base. Inflorescence at first 

 subcapitate, but in fruit the 2 or 3 branches of which it consists (and 

 which spring nearly from one point at the apex of the stem) grow 

 till they are 4 to 8 inches long. Calyx in flower a little more than 

 ^ inch long, the segments lengthening in fruit till they are ^ to |^ inch 

 long, densely strigosely hairy, as well as the short pedicels. Corolla 

 f to f inch long, Avith a spreading funnelshaped limb, which is 

 of a brilliant purplish blue, becoming at length bright blue. Kucules 

 about as large as hemp seed, pure, pasty- white, highly polished, 

 usually only 1 or 2 in each calyx ripening. Plant dark green, clothed 

 with short hairs, seated on minute tubercles of unequal size. 



Purple Gromwell. 



Frencli, Gremtl violet. German, TiirpuMauer Sieinsame. 



The common name of this plant seems to have been originally Gromell or Grajmylc, 

 as Tumor says it should be written, from Granum soils and Milium soils, together. 

 " That is all one, says the Grete Herball." So the apothecaries comprised the matter, 

 according to Dr. Prior, and combined them. 



SPECIES II.-LITHOSPERMUM OFFICINALE. Linn. 



Plate MCI. 



Belch. Ic. El. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIH. Tab. MCCCXHI. Fig. 1. _ 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Ex.sicc. No. 1.535. 



Perennial, herbaceous. Barren shoots none. Stems all erect. 



